Address GitLab issue #53: inventory limit glitch in original game is not reproduced

[open-adventure.git] / notes.adoc

diff --git a/notes.adoc b/notes.adoc
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@@ -45,8 +45,12 @@ future as a Python or Go translation seems possible, even probable.
 
 Bug fixes:
 
+* The caged bird to be counted as two items in your inventory.
+
 * Reading the relocated Witt's End sign in the endgame didn't work right.
 
+* Oyster was readable after first gotten even when not carried.
+
 * Behavior when saying the giant's magic words outside his room wasn't
   quite correct - the game responded as though the player were in
   the room ("...can't you read?"). The new message is "Well, that was
@@ -58,9 +62,15 @@ Bug fixes:
   incorrect most places it appeared and has been replaced by "A crystal 
   bridge spans the fissure." (timeless present).
 
+* A few minor typos have been corrected: absence of capitalization on
+  "Swiss" and "Persian", inconsistent selling of "imbedded" vs. "embedded",
+  "eying" for "eyeing". "thresholds" for "threshholds".
+
 * Under odd circumstances (dropping rug or vase outdoors) the game could
   say "floor" when it should say "ground" (or "dirt", or something).
 
+Enhancements:
+
 By default, advent issues "> " as a command prompt.  This feature
 became common in many variants after the original 350-point version,
 but was never backported into Crowther & Woods's main line before now.
@@ -81,6 +91,9 @@ but as a way for game logs to set the PRNG (pseudorandom-number generator) so
 that random events (dwarf & pirate appearances, the bird's magic word)
 will be reproducible.
 
+A "version" command has been added. This has no effect on gameplay.
+The text displayed by the "news" command has been updated.
+
 A -l command-line option has been added. When this is given (with a
 file path argument) each command entered will be logged to the
 specified file.  Additionally, a generated "seed" command will be put
@@ -128,7 +141,7 @@ The original code was greatly complicated by a kind of bit-packing
 that was performed because the FORTRAN it was written in had no string
 type.  Text from the adventure.text file was compiled into sequences
 of sixbit code points in a restricted character set, packed 5 to a
-32-bit word (it seems clear from the code that words were originally
+32-bit word (and it seems clear from the code that words were originally
 *6* chars each packed into a PDP-10 36-bit word).  A command noun or
 verb was one of these words, and what would be string operations in a
 more recent language were all done on sequences of these words.
@@ -162,7 +175,7 @@ ways:
   arrays are a cell larger than they strictly need to be and cell 0 is
   unused.
 
-* The code is still mostly typeless, slinging around machine longs
+* The code is still mostly typeless, slinging around machine ints
   like a FORTRAN or BCPL program.  Some (incomplete) effort has been made
   to introduce semantic types.