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diff --git a/kitten.inf b/kitten.inf
index 2327849..9e029a3 100644
--- a/kitten.inf
+++ b/kitten.inf
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-! Robot Finds Kitten
+! robotfindskitten
 ! A Zen Simulation
-! Release 1 / Serial number 021123 / Inform v6.21
+! Release 7 / Serial number 040523 / Inform v6.21
 !
 !     [-]       |\_/|        http://www.robotfindskitten.org
 !     (+)=C     |o o|__      Leonard Richardson (C) 1997, 2000
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 ! Written originally for the Nerth Pork robotfindskitten contest.
 ! Reimplemented in Inform by David Griffith (C) 2002.
 !
-! Lots more information on Robot Finds Kitten is available at
+! Lots more information on robotfindskitten is available at
 ! http://www.robotfindskitten.org.
 !
 !
@@ -21,85 +21,89 @@
 ! task is complicated by the existance of various things which are not
 ! kitten.  Robot must touch items to determine if they are Kitten or
 ! not.  Move Robot with the cursor keys, the numeric keypad, or
-! using the vi/rogue movement keys. The game ends when Robot finds
-! Kitten.  Alternatively, you may end the game by hitting the Esc or Q
-! keys.
+! using the vi/rogue movement keys. The game ends when robotfindskitten.
+! Alternatively, you may end the game by hitting the Esc or Q keys.
 !
-! Developed with Inform 6.21.2 as installed from NetBSD's pkgsrc tree
+! Developed with Inform 6.21.4 as installed from NetBSD's pkgsrc tree
 ! and Frotz 2.42.
 ! 
 !
 ! Compile it with:
 !	inform "-~S" kitten.inf  <-- Assuming Unix
+!		 ^
+!		 | 
+!		Gets rid of debugging code which doesn't really do
+!		this sort of program any good in the first place.
 !
 ! Notes:
-!	1) More than half of the code is taken up by non-kitten
-!	messages.  When I compiled the code with just five messages and  
+!	1) More than half of the code is taken up by non kitten items
+!	(NKIs).  When I compiled the code with just five messages and
 !	no debugging code, the resulting binary was less than 10k bytes.
 !
 !	2) If it wasn't already abundantly obvious, this program won't
 !	compile to Glulx because of copious use of Z-machine assembly
 !	instructions.
-!
-!
-! Release History:
-!
-! Release 1 / Serial number 0211xx to 021214 or so
-! Initial private release.  Limited distribution for beta testing and
-! debugging purposes.
-!
-!
-! Release 2 / Serial Number 021216
-! First public release.
-!
-!
+!	
+!	3) Compiling for V5 or higher is required due to "style" calls.
+!	Is there a reason why someone would want to compile this for V4
+!	or previous?
 
 !Switches xv5s;
 
-Switches v5;
+Switches v5d2;
 
 
 ! Number of messages
 ! This must be updated when adding new messages.
 !
-Constant MESSAGE_NUM	360;
+Constant MESSAGE_NUM	800;
 
 Constant Nonkitten_Default 20;
 
 ! Maxmimum possible number of non-kitten items on the playfield at once.
+! For whatever reason, this cannot be set dynamically.
 !
-Constant Nonkitten_Max	256;
-
+Constant Nonkitten_Max	589;
 
-Release 2;
-Serial "021216";
 
+Release 7;
+Serial "040523";	! Presumed release date
 
 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
-Constant Story "Robot Finds Kitten";
+Constant Story "robotfindskitten";
+
 Constant Headline "^A Zen Simulation^";
 
-Constant Anim_Meet	10;
 
-Global Height = 0;
+Constant Anim_Meet	10;	! Number of spaces from the left where
+				!  Robot and Kitten meet during animation.
+
+Global Height = 0;		! These are set at runtime.
 Global Width = 0;
 
-Global TopBar = 5;
+Global Back_def = 2;		! Black.
+Global Fore_def = 9;		! White.
 
-Global player_x = 0;
-Global player_y = 0;
+Global TopBar = 5;		! Lines from the top.
+
+Global player_x = 0;		! Keeping track of where the player was
+Global player_y = 0;		!  1 move ago allows us to keep the
+Global player_x_last = 0;	!  player from walking through obstacles.
+Global player_y_last = 0;
 
 Global kitten_x = 0;
 Global kitten_y = 0;
 Global kitten_char = 0;
+Global kitten_color = 0;
 
-Global last_message = "";
+Global last_message = "";	! Always show the last-encountered message.
 
 Global nonkitten_count = Nonkitten_Default;
 
 Array nonkitten_x --> Nonkitten_Max;
 Array nonkitten_y --> Nonkitten_Max;
+Array nonkitten_color --> Nonkitten_Max;
 Array nonkitten_char --> Nonkitten_Max;
 Array nonkitten_msg --> Nonkitten_Max;
 
@@ -109,23 +113,27 @@ Array already_x --> Nonkitten_Max + 2;
 Array already_y --> Nonkitten_Max + 2;
 Array already_msg --> Nonkitten_Max;
 
-
+! If a key is held down while the found_kitten animation is playing,
+! (0-->1) & $03ff gets corrupted.  Seems like it might be a bug
+! somewhere in Unix Frotz.
+!
 Global Real_Release = 0;
 
 [ Main key;
 
+	@set_colour Fore_def Back_def;
+
 	if (MESSAGE_NUM < Nonkitten_Max) {
 		nonkitten_count = MESSAGE_NUM;
 	} else {
 		nonkitten_count = Nonkitten_Default;
 	}
 
-	! If a key is held down while the found_kitten animation is playing,
-	! (0-->1) & $03ff gets corrupted.  Seems like it might be a bug
-	! somewhere in Unix Frotz.
-	!
 	Real_Release = (0-->1)&$03ff;
 
+	Width = $22-->0;
+	Height = $24-->0;
+
 	main_menu();	
 	while (true) {
 		key = getkey();
@@ -136,10 +144,11 @@ Global Real_Release = 0;
 			init_robot();
 			while (findkitten())
 				;
-		'D':	nonkitten_count = set_nonkitten_count();
+		'D':	set_nonkitten_count();
 		'I':	print_instructions();
 		'A':	print_about();
 		'T':	print_thoughts();
+!		'P':	print_all_nki();	! See print_all_nki() below.
 		}
 		if (key == 'Q' || key == $1b)	! $1b == ESC
 			break;
@@ -147,11 +156,18 @@ Global Real_Release = 0;
 	}
 	quit;
 ];
-	
 
-[ main_menu;
-	Width = $22-->0;
-	Height = $24-->0;
+
+[ main_menu psycho;
+
+	! There's a 1:50 chance that the kitten in the title screen
+	! will have a "psycho" appearance.
+	!
+	psycho = random(50);
+	if (psycho == 1)
+		psycho = true;
+	else
+		psycho = false;
 
 	@erase_window $ffff;
 	@split_window 11;
@@ -161,7 +177,11 @@ Global Real_Release = 0;
 	draw_horiz(TopBar);
 
 	draw_big_robot(3, 7);
-	draw_big_kitten(15, 7);
+
+	if (psycho)
+		draw_big_kitten_psycho(14, 7);
+	else
+		draw_big_kitten(15, 7);
 
 	@set_cursor 7 30;
 	print "http://www.robotfindskitten.org";
@@ -174,26 +194,23 @@ Global Real_Release = 0;
 
 	@set_window 0;
 
-	print "  F) Find Kitten^";
-	print "  D) Difficulty  (", nonkitten_count, ")^";
-	print "  I) Instructions^";
-	print "  T) Thoughts^";
-	print "  A) About^";
-	print "  Q) Quit^";
-	print "^> ";
+	print "  F) Find Kitten^",
+		"  D) Difficulty  (", nonkitten_count, ")^",
+		"  I) Instructions^",
+		"  T) Thoughts^",
+		"  A) About^",
+		"  Q) Quit^",
+		"^> ";
 ];
 
-! Copied from module/verblibm.h
+
+! Copied from module/verblibm.h of the Inform 6.21.3 standard library.
 !
 [ Banner i;
 	if (Story ~= 0) {
-#IFV5;
 		style bold; 
-#ENDIF;
 		print (string) Story;
-#IFV5;
 		style roman;
-#ENDIF;
 	}
 	if (Headline ~= 0) {
 		print (string) Headline;
@@ -214,10 +231,11 @@ Global Real_Release = 0;
 	new_line;
 ];
 
+
 Constant INBUFSIZE 80;
 Array inbuf -> INBUFSIZE;
 
-[ set_nonkitten_count inbufvar ix cx len val maxnum;
+[ set_nonkitten_count maxnum val;
 
 	while (true) {
 		@erase_window $ffff;
@@ -234,8 +252,24 @@ Array inbuf -> INBUFSIZE;
 		} 
 
 		print "^Please enter the number of nonkittens you
-		  wish to search through.^(1 to ", maxnum, " only)^^> ";
+			wish to search through.^(1 to ", maxnum, " only)^^> ";
 
+		while (true) {
+			val = get_number(1, maxnum, nonkitten_count);
+			if (val == -1) {
+				break;
+			} else {
+				nonkitten_count = val;
+				return;
+			}
+		}
+	}
+];
+
+
+[ get_number min max init inbufvar ix cx len val;
+
+	while (true) {
 		inbuf->0 = (INBUFSIZE-3);
 		inbuf->1 = 0;
 		inbufvar = inbuf;
@@ -249,36 +283,35 @@ Array inbuf -> INBUFSIZE;
 		if (cx < len && inbuf->(2+cx) == '.')
 			break;
 
-		! If user just hit return, use what we have already.
+		! If user just hits return, use what we have already. 
 		if (len == 0)
-			return nonkitten_count;
-
+			return init;
 		if (cx == len || inbuf->(2+cx) < '0' || inbuf->(2+cx) > '9') {
-			print "Please enter a value from 1 to ",
-			  maxnum, ", or Enter by itself to exit.^";
-			print "[Press any key to continue.] ";
+			print "Please enter a value from ", min, " to ", max,
+				", or Enter by itself to exit.^
+				[Press any key to continue.] ";
 			getkey();
-			continue;
+			return -1;
 		}
-
 		val = 0;
 		while (cx < len && inbuf->(2+cx) >= '0' && inbuf->(2+cx) <= '9') {
 			val = val * 10 + (inbuf->(2+cx) - '0');
 			cx++;
 		}
-
-		if (val < 1 || val > Nonkitten_Max) {
-			print "Please enter a value from 1 to ",
-			  maxnum, ", or Enter by itself to exit.^";
-			print "[Press any key to continue.] ";
+		if (val < min || val > max) {
+			print "Please enter a value from ", min, " to ", max,
+				", or Enter by itself to exit.^
+				[Press any key to continue.] ";
 			getkey();
-			continue;
+			return -1;
 		} else break;
 	}
 	return val;
 ];
 
+
 [ print_about;
+
 	@erase_window $ffff;
 	@split_window TopBar;
 	@set_window 1;
@@ -293,11 +326,15 @@ Written originally for the Nerth Pork robotfindskitten contest.^
 Reimplemented in Inform by David Griffith (C) 2002.^
 ^
 This code is freely redistributable.  Do with it what you will, but
-don't go about claiming you wrote it.^
+don't go about claiming you wrote it.  I, David Griffith, retain
+copyright on this program except for the NKIs imported from the master
+(aka POSIX) port.^
 ^
-Lots more information on Robot Finds Kitten is available at
+Lots more information on robotfindskitten is available at
 http://www.robotfindskitten.org.^
 ^
+To submit new NKI's, please go to the above URL.^
+^
 ^
 Release History:^
 ^
@@ -308,36 +345,65 @@ debugging purposes.^
 Release 2 / Serial Number 021216^
 First public release.^
 ^
+Release 3 / Serial Number 021221^
+Bugfix release.^
+- Movement keys 'J' and 'K' were swapped by mistake.  Fixed.^
+- Special PalmOS movement key support added.^
+- More NKIs added (401 total).^
 ^
-Known Bugs:^
+Release 4 / Serial Number 030131^
+Light overhaul release.^
+- Now an official port of robotfindskitten.^
+- Typos in NKIs fixed.^
+- Fixed diagonal collision-detection strangeness.^
+- Added color support.^
+- Added an easter egg.  Can you find it?^
+- Removed PalmOS movement key support (superfluous and ugly).^
+- Removed playfield resizing code (superfluous and ugly).^
+- It's ~robotfindskitten~, not ~Robot Finds Kitten~.^
+- Merged in new NKIs from the new POSIX release of robotfindskitten.^
+- More NKIs added (561 total).^
 ^
-1) Some bug (I don't know where) in already_seen_xv() seems cause Robot
-to occasionally get placed on top of another object.^
+Release 5 / Serial Number 030524^
+Even more NKIs release.^
+- Idiotic typos fixed.^
+- More NKIs added (602 total).^
 ^
-2) Under Windows Frotz, the Robot used to appear as a solid block.  This
-was because of a bug in Windows Frotz which incorrectly makes the cursor 
-opaque.  The cursor is now moved off to the upper-right corner so that
-the game looks okay on terminals that use something other than reverse
-for the cursor.  I still can't figure out how to make Inform hide the
-cursor completely.  At least on xterm and NetBSD's console,
-@@64set_cursor -1 doesn't work.^
+Release 6 / Serial Number 031116^
+Challenge release.^
+- More NKIs added (764 total).^
+- Increased maximum difficulty to 589.^
+- Lots more comments in the source code.^
+- Assorted cleanups in the source code.^
 ^
-3) Under Windows Frotz, an annoying [MORE] prompt appears at the main
-menu.  This is another bug in Windows Frotz which causes the
-interpreter to follow Windows' suggestion something less than 24 or 25
-lines is okay.^
+Release 7 / Serial Number 040523^
+Grammatically correct release.^
+- Grammar corrections from the POSIX port added.^
+- More NKIs added (800 total).^
 ^
 ^
-Other Stuff:^
+Known Bugs:^
+^
+1) I still don't know why already_seen_xy() occasionally causes Robot to
+get placed on top of another object when a game is started.  Fortunately
+this seems to happen only very rarely and typically only if the
+difficulty is set to more than 200.  This bug also seems to very
+occasionally put Kitten underneath an NKI.^
 ^
-1) Is it worth the trouble to implement colors?^
+2) Under earlier versions of Windows Frotz, Robot used to appear as a
+solid block. This was because of a bug in Windows Frotz which
+incorrectly makes the cursor opaque. The cursor is now moved off to
+the upper-right corner so that the game looks okay on terminals that use
+something other than reverse for the cursor. I still can't figure out
+how to make Inform hide the cursor completely. At least on xterm and
+NetBSD's console, @@64set_cursor -1 doesn't work.^
 ^
-2) Since there is already a native version of RFK for PalmOS machines,
-modifying this version to make it more usable on PalmOS probably doesn't
-make sense.^
+3) Under Windows Frotz, an annoying [MORE] prompt might appear at the
+main menu. This is another bug in Windows Frotz which causes the
+interpreter to follow Windows' suggestion that something less than 24 or
+25 lines is okay.^
 ^
 [Press any key to continue.] "; 
-
 	getkey();
 ];
 
@@ -349,51 +415,46 @@ make sense.^
 	Banner();
 	draw_horiz(TopBar);
 	@set_window 0;
-
 print "^
 In this game, you are Robot ( ";
-#IFV5; style reverse; #ENDIF;
-print "#";
-#IFV5; style roman; #ENDIF;
-print " ).  Your job is to find Kitten.  This task
-is complicated by the existance of various things which are not 
-Kitten.  Robot must touch items to determine if they are Kitten or
-not.  Move Robot with the cursor keys, the numeric keypad (make sure
-numlock is on), or using the vi/rogue movement keys.  The game ends when
-Robot finds Kitten.  Alternatively, you may end the game by hitting the
-Esc or Q keys.^
+style reverse; print "#"; style roman;
+print " ). Your job is to find Kitten. This task is complicated by the
+existance of various things which are not Kitten. Robot must touch
+items to determine if they are Kitten or not.  Move Robot with the
+cursor keys, the numeric keypad (make sure numlock is on), or using the
+vi/rogue/nethack movement keys. The game ends when robotfindskitten.
+Alternatively, you may end the game by hitting the Esc or Q keys.^
 ^
 [Press any key to continue.] "; 
-
 	getkey();
 ];
 
 
 [ print_thoughts;
+
 	@erase_window $ffff;
 	@split_window TopBar;
 	@set_window 1;
 	Banner();
 	draw_horiz(TopBar);
 	@set_window 0;
-
 print "^
 A Final Thought.^
 ^
 Day and night I feverishly worked upon the machine, creating both a soul
-which could desire its goal, and a body with which it could realize it.
-Many who saw my creation called it an abomination, and denied me grant
-money.  But they could not dissuade me from my impossible task.  It was
-a spectre that tormented me always, a ghost I had to give a form and a
-life, lest it consume me from the inside.  And when at last my task was
-done, when the grey box on wheels was complete and when it, as well as
-I, knew what had to be done, I felt deep sympathy for the machine.  For
-I had not destroyed the phantom, but merely exorcized it into another
-body.  The robot knew not why this task had to be performed, for I could
-not imbue it with knowledge I did not myself posess. And at the same
-time, I felt a sweeping sense of relief sweep over me, that somehow, the
-dream that had driven me for my entire life had come one step closer to
-fruition.^
+which could desire its goal, and a body with which it could realize 
+it. Many who saw my creation called it an abomination, and denied me
+grant money.  But they could not dissuade me from my impossible 
+task.  It was a spectre that tormented me always, a ghost I had to give
+a form and a life, lest it consume me from the inside.  And when at last
+my task was done, when the grey box on wheels was complete and when it,
+as well as I, knew what had to be done, I felt deep sympathy for the
+machine.  For I had not destroyed the phantom, but merely exorcized it
+into another body.  The robot knew not why this task had to be
+performed, for I could not imbue it with knowledge I did not myself
+posess.  And at the same time, I felt a sweeping sense of relief sweep
+over me, that somehow, the dream that had driven me for my entire life
+had come one step closer to fruition.^
 ^
 ~Gort, Klaatu Verada Nikto~^
 ^
@@ -410,55 +471,126 @@ frozen desert beyond. ~FIND KITTEN!~^
 -- The Book of Found Kittens, pages 43-4, author unknown.^
 ^
 [Press any key to continue.] "; 
-
 	getkey();
 ];
 
+
 [ draw_big_robot x y; 
+
 	if (x == 0)
 		x = 1;
 	if (y == 0)
 		y = 1;
 	@set_cursor y x;
-	print "[-]";
+	@set_colour 6 Back_def;
+	print "[";
+	@set_colour 4 Back_def;
+	print "-";
+	@set_colour 6 Back_def;
+	print "]";
+
 	y = y+1;
 	@set_cursor y x;
-	print "(+)=C";
+	@set_colour 6 Back_def;
+	print "(";
+	@set_colour 3 Back_def;
+	print "+";
+	@set_colour 6 Back_def;
+	print ")";
+	@set_colour 8 Back_def;
+	print "=C";
 
 	y = y+1;
 	@set_cursor y x;
+	@set_colour 6 Back_def;
 	print "| |";
 
 	y = y+1;
 	@set_cursor y x;
+	@set_colour 8 Back_def;
 	print "OOO";
+
+	@set_colour Fore_def Back_def;
 ];
 
+
 [ draw_big_kitten x y;
+
 	if (x == 0)
 		x = 1;
 	if (y == 0)
 		y = 1;
 	@set_cursor y x;
+
+	@set_colour 5 Back_def;
 	print "|", (char) 92, "_/|";
 	y++;
 	@set_cursor y x;
-	print "|o o|__";
+	print "|";
+	@set_colour 4 Back_def;
+	print "o o";
+	@set_colour 5 Back_def;
+	print "|__";
 	y++;
 	@set_cursor y x;
-	print "--*--__", (char) 92;
+	@set_colour 9 Back_def;
+	print "--";
+	@set_colour 3 Back_def;
+	print "*";
+	@set_colour 9 Back_def;
+	print "--";
+	@set_colour 5 Back_def;
+	print "__", (char) 92;
 	y++;
 	@set_cursor y x;
 	print "C_C(____)";	
+
+	@set_colour Fore_def Back_def;
+];
+
+
+[ draw_big_kitten_psycho x y;
+
+	if (x == 0)
+		x = 1;
+	if (y == 0)
+		y = 1;
+	@set_cursor y x;
+
+	@set_colour 5 Back_def;
+	print " |", (char) 92, "_/|";
+	y++;
+	@set_cursor y x;
+	@set_colour 4 Back_def;
+	print "(|) (|)";
+	@set_colour 5 Back_def;
+	print "_";
+	y++;
+	@set_cursor y x;
+	@set_colour 9 Back_def;
+	print " --";
+	@set_colour 3 Back_def;
+	print "O";
+	@set_colour 9 Back_def;
+	print "--";
+	@set_colour 5 Back_def;
+	print "__", (char) 92;
+	y++;
+	@set_cursor y x;
+	print " 3_3(____)";	
+
+	@set_colour Fore_def Back_def;
 ];
 
-! Something gets mucked up if make this local to findkitten()
+
+! Something gets messed up if I make this local to findkitten()
 ! When going right or left, then up or down to hit the Kitten, the
 ! animation gets reversed.
 ! 
 Global last_right = false;
 
 [ findkitten key i;
+
 	@erase_window $ffff;
 	@split_window TopBar;
 	@set_window 1;
@@ -468,20 +600,27 @@ Global last_right = false;
 	print (string) last_message;
 	draw_horiz(TopBar);
 
-	draw_object(kitten_x, kitten_y, kitten_char);
+	draw_object(kitten_x, kitten_y, kitten_char, kitten_color);
 	draw_nonkittens();
 
-	#IFV5; style reverse; #ENDIF;
+	style reverse;
 	draw_object(player_x, player_y, '#');
-	#IFV5; style roman; #ENDIF;
+	style roman;
 
 	@set_cursor 1 Width;
 
+	! Get movement key
+	!
 	key = getkey();
+
+	! Move Robot
+	!
+	player_x_last = player_x;
+	player_y_last = player_y;
 	switch (key) {
 	'Q', $1b:	rfalse;			! exit game ($1b == Esc)
-	'8', 'J', 129:	player_y--;		! up
-	'2', 'K', 130:	player_y++;		! down
+	'8', 'K', 129:	player_y--;		! up
+	'2', 'J', 130:	player_y++;		! down
 	'4', 'H', 131:	player_x--;		! left
 			last_right = false;
 	'6', 'L', 132:	player_x++;		! right
@@ -496,16 +635,17 @@ Global last_right = false;
 	'3', 'N':	player_y++; player_x++;	! down-right
 			last_right = true;
 	}
-	if (player_y <= TopBar+1)
-		player_y = TopBar + 1;
-	if (player_y > Height)
-		player_y = Height;
-	if (player_x < 1)
-		player_x = 1;
-	if (player_x > Width)
-		player_x = Width;
-
-	! detect and handle collisions
+
+	! Keep Robot from falling off edges of playfield.
+	!
+	if (player_y == TopBar || player_y > Height) {
+		player_y = player_y_last;
+	}
+	if (player_x < 1 || player_x > Width) {
+		player_x = player_x_last;
+	}
+
+	! Detect and handle collisions.
 	!
 	if (player_x == kitten_x && player_y == kitten_y) {
 		animate_kitten(key, last_right);
@@ -517,18 +657,8 @@ Global last_right = false;
 		&& player_y == nonkitten_y-->i) {
 			@set_cursor 1 1;
 			last_message = lookup_msg(nonkitten_msg-->i);
-
-			! prevent Robot from walking through the object.
-			switch (key) {
-			'8', 'J', 129:	player_y++;
-			'2', 'K', 130:	player_y--;
-			'4', 'H', 131:	player_x++;
-			'6', 'L', 132:	player_x--;
-			'7', 'Y':	player_y++; player_x++;
-			'9', 'U':	player_y++; player_x--;
-			'1', 'B':	player_y--; player_x++;
-			'3', 'N':	player_y--; player_x--;
-			}
+			player_x = player_x_last;
+			player_y = player_y_last;
 		}
 	}
 	rtrue;
@@ -537,8 +667,6 @@ Global last_right = false;
 
 [ animate_kitten key my_last_right i j junk robot_x anim_finished;
 
-	anim_finished = false;
-
 	switch (key) {
 	'8', 'J', 129:	player_y++;
 	'2', 'K', 130:	player_y--;
@@ -550,6 +678,7 @@ Global last_right = false;
 	'3', 'N':	player_y--; player_x--;
 	}
 
+	anim_finished = false;
 	for (i = 4: i >= 0: i--) {
 		@erase_window $ffff;
 		@split_window TopBar;
@@ -562,16 +691,18 @@ Global last_right = false;
 		if (i > 0) {
 			if (my_last_right) {
 				robot_x = Anim_Meet - i;
-				#IFV5; style reverse; #ENDIF;
+				style reverse;
 				draw_object(robot_x, TopBar - 1, '#');
-				#IFV5; style roman; #ENDIF;
-				draw_object(Anim_Meet - 1 + i, TopBar - 1, kitten_char);
+				style roman;
+				draw_object(Anim_Meet - 1 + i, TopBar - 1, 
+					kitten_char, kitten_color);
 			} else {
 				robot_x = Anim_Meet - 1 + i;
-				#IFV5; style reverse; #ENDIF;
+				style reverse;
 				draw_object(robot_x, TopBar - 1, '#');
-				#IFV5; style roman; #ENDIF;
-				draw_object(Anim_Meet - i, TopBar - 1, kitten_char);
+				style roman;
+				draw_object(Anim_Meet - i, TopBar - 1,
+					kitten_char, kitten_color);
 	 		}
 		} else {
 			j = TopBar - 1;
@@ -580,30 +711,27 @@ Global last_right = false;
 			anim_finished = true;
 		}
 
-		draw_object(kitten_x, kitten_y, kitten_char);
+		draw_object(kitten_x, kitten_y, kitten_char, kitten_color);
 
-		#IFV5; style reverse; #ENDIF;
+		style reverse;
 		draw_object(player_x, player_y, '#');
-		#IFV5; style roman; #ENDIF;
+		style roman;
 		draw_nonkittens();
 
 		if (anim_finished == false) {
 			j = TopBar - 1;
 			@set_cursor 1 Width;
-
-			! simply using "10" as the third argument causes
-			! the release number to mysteriously change
-			! if a key is held down during the animation.
 			@aread junk 0 10 pause -> junk;
 		} else {
-			#IFV5; style reverse; #ENDIF;
+			style reverse;
 			draw_object(player_x, player_y, '#');
-			#IFV5; style roman; #ENDIF;
+			style roman;
 			@set_cursor 1 Width;
 		}
 	}
 ];
 
+
 [ already_seen_xy x y i;
 	for (i = 0: i < already_count: i++) {
 		if (already_x-->already_count == x &&
@@ -626,7 +754,7 @@ Global last_right = false;
 [ init_kitten;
 	kitten_x = get_random_x();
 	kitten_y = get_random_y();
-
+	kitten_color = get_random_color();
 	while (already_seen_xy(kitten_x, kitten_y) == true) {
 		kitten_x = get_random_x();
 		kitten_y = get_random_y();
@@ -638,7 +766,6 @@ Global last_right = false;
 [ init_robot;
 	player_x = get_random_x();
 	player_y = get_random_y();
-
 	while (already_seen_xy(player_x, player_y) == true) {
 		player_x = get_random_x();
 		player_y = get_random_y();
@@ -649,11 +776,10 @@ Global last_right = false;
 [ init_nonkittens i;
 	already_msg_count = 0;
 	last_message = "";
-
 	for (i = 0: i < nonkitten_count: i++) {
 		nonkitten_x-->i = get_random_x();
 		nonkitten_y-->i = get_random_y();
-
+		nonkitten_color-->i = get_random_color();
 		while (already_seen_xy(nonkitten_x-->i, 
 			nonkitten_y-->i) == true) {
 			nonkitten_x-->i = get_random_x();
@@ -669,15 +795,25 @@ Global last_right = false;
 	for (i = 0: i < nonkitten_count: i++) {
 		draw_object(nonkitten_x-->i,
 				nonkitten_y-->i,
-				nonkitten_char-->i);
+				nonkitten_char-->i,
+				nonkitten_color-->i);
 	}
 ];
 
 
-[ draw_object x y c;
+[ draw_object x y character fore back;
 	@set_cursor y x;
-	if (c)
-		print (char) c;
+
+	if (fore == "")
+		fore = Back_def;
+	if (back == "")
+		back = Back_def;	
+
+	@set_colour fore Back_def;
+	if (character)
+		print (char) character;
+
+	@set_colour Fore_def Back_def;
 ];
 
 
@@ -716,6 +852,17 @@ Global last_right = false;
 ];
 
 
+[ get_random_color num;
+	num = random(7) + 2;
+	! 0 and 1 are default color and current color
+	! and we want to avoid picking the default color explicitly
+	while (num == $2c-->0) {
+		num = random(7) + 2;
+	}
+	return num;
+];
+
+
 [ is_duplicate_msg num i;
 	for (i = 0: i < already_msg_count: i++) {
 		if (already_msg-->i==num) {
@@ -729,23 +876,39 @@ Global last_right = false;
 
 
 [ get_random_x;
+	! Maybe this will need to do something more in the future.
 	return random(Width);
 ];
 
 
-[ get_random_y num ok;
-	ok = false;
+[ get_random_y num;
 	! Make sure we don't draw in the status bar.
-	while (ok == false) {
+	while (true) {
 		num = random(Height);
 		if (num > TopBar)
-			ok = true;
+			return num;
 	}
-	return num;
 ];
 
 
-! Note:
+! This function is mainly of use to members of the robotfindskitten
+! development team.
+!
+! When this function is uncommented and enabled in
+! the menu, this will cause a script file to be written which contains
+! all NKIs properly formatted.
+
+![ print_all_nki num mystring;
+!	@output_stream 2; @output_stream -1;
+!	for (num = 1: num <= MESSAGE_NUM: num++) {
+!		mystring = lookup_msg(num);
+!		print (string)lookup_msg(num), "^";
+!	}
+!	@output_stream -2; @output_stream 1;
+!];
+
+
+! To use '~' or '@' in NKIs, keep the following in mind:
 ! @@126 == '~'
 ! @@64 == '@'
 
@@ -771,7 +934,7 @@ Global last_right = false;
 18:	return "It's Lucy Ricardo. ~Aaaah, Ricky!~, she says.";
 19:	return "You stumble upon Bill Gates' stand-up act.";
 20:	return "Just an autographed copy of the Kama Sutra.";
-21:	return "It's the Will Rogers Highway. Who was Will Rogers, anyway?";
+21:	return "It's the Will Rogers Highway.  Who was Will Rogers, anyway?";
 22:	return "It's another robot, more advanced in design than you but strangely immobile.";
 23:	return "Leonard Richardson is here, asking people to lick him.";
 24:	return "It's a stupid mask, fashioned after a beagle.";
@@ -832,7 +995,7 @@ Global last_right = false;
 79:	return "A toenail?  What good is a toenail?";
 80:	return "You've found the fish!  Not that it does you much good in this game.";
 81:	return "A Buttertonsils bar.";
-82:	return "One of the few remaining discoes.";
+82:	return "One of the few remaining discos.";
 83:	return "Ah, the uniform of a Revolutionary-era minuteman.";
 84:	return "A punch bowl, filled with punch and lemon slices.";
 85:	return "It's nothing but a G-thang, baby.";
@@ -843,7 +1006,7 @@ Global last_right = false;
 90:	return "It's a perpetual immobility machine.";
 91:	return "~On this spot in 1962, Henry Winkler was sick.~";
 92:	return "There's nothing here; it's just an optical illusion.";
-93:	return "The World's Biggest Motzah Ball!";
+93:	return "The World's Biggest Matzoh Ball!";
 94:	return "A tribe of cannibals lives here.  They eat Malt-O-Meal for breakfast, you know.";
 95:	return "This appears to be a rather large stack of trashy romance novels.";
 96:	return "Look out!  Exclamation points!";
@@ -910,7 +1073,7 @@ Global last_right = false;
 155:	return "This TRS-80 III is eerily silent.";
 156:	return "A toilet bowl occupies this space.";
 157:	return "This peg-leg is stuck in a knothole!";
-158:	return "It's a solitary vaccuum tube.";
+158:	return "It's a solitary vacuum tube.";
 159:	return "This corroded robot is clutching a mitten.";
 160:	return "~Hi, I'm Anson Williams, TV's 'Potsy'.~";
 161:	return "This subwoofer was blown out in 1974.";
@@ -923,7 +1086,7 @@ Global last_right = false;
 168:	return "A parrot, kipping on its back.";
 169:	return "A forgotten telephone switchboard.";
 170:	return "A forgotten telephone switchboard operator.";
-171:	return "It's an automated robot-disdainer. It pretends you're not there.";
+171:	return "It's an automated robot-disdainer.  It pretends you're not there.";
 172:	return "It's a portable hole.  A sign reads: ~Closed for the winter~.";
 173:	return "Just a moldy loaf of bread.";
 174:	return "A little glass tub of Carmex. ($.89)  Too bad you have no lips.";
@@ -962,7 +1125,7 @@ Global last_right = false;
 207:	return "Vladimir Lenin's casket rests here.";
 208:	return "It's a copy of ~Zen and The Art of Robot Maintenance~.";
 209:	return "This invisible box contains a pantomime horse.";
-210:	return "A mason jar lies here open. It's label reads: ~do not open!~.";
+210:	return "A mason jar lies here open.  Its label reads: ~do not open!~.";
 211:	return "A train of thought chugs through here.";
 212:	return "This jar of pickles expired in 1957.";
 213:	return "Someone's identity disk lies here.";
@@ -979,7 +1142,7 @@ Global last_right = false;
 224:	return "It's a Dvorak keyboard.";
 225:	return "It's a cardboard box full of 8-tracks.";
 226:	return "Just a broken hard drive containg the archives of Nerth Pork.";
-227:	return "A broken metronome sits here, it's needle off to one side.";
+227:	return "A broken metronome sits here, its needle off to one side.";
 228:	return "A sign reads: ~Go home!~";
 229:	return "A sign reads: ~No robots allowed!~";
 230:	return "It's the handheld robotfindskitten game, by Tiger.";
@@ -988,7 +1151,7 @@ Global last_right = false;
 233:	return "A wireframe model of a hot dog rotates in space here.";
 234:	return "Just the empty husk of a locust.";
 235:	return "You disturb a murder of crows.";
-236:	return "It's a copy of the RobotFindsKitten EULA.";
+236:	return "It's a copy of the robotfindskitten EULA.";
 237:	return "It's Death.";
 238:	return "It's an autographed copy of ~Secondary Colors~, by Bob Ross.";
 239:	return "It is a marzipan dreadnought that appears to have melted and stuck.";
@@ -1009,7 +1172,7 @@ Global last_right = false;
 251:	return "It's Andrew Plotkin plotting something.";
 252:	return "A half-eaten cheese sandwich.";
 253:	return "Clang, clang, clang goes the tranny!";
-254:	return "A family of integrals are here integrating.";
+254:	return "A family of integrals is here integrating.";
 255:	return "A tuft of kitten fur, but no kitten.";
 256:	return "A bottle of oil!  Refreshing!";
 257:	return "A shameless plug for Frotz: http://www.cs.csubak.edu/@@126dgriffi/proj/frotz/";
@@ -1022,7 +1185,7 @@ Global last_right = false;
 264:	return "A discarded bagpipe chanter reed.";
 265:	return "Big Bird is here looking for Mr. Looper.";
 266:	return "It's a Linux install CD.";
-267:	return "You found Puppy!  Too bad this isn't ~Robot Finds Puppy~.";
+267:	return "You found Puppy!  Too bad this isn't ~robotfindspuppy~.";
 268:	return "Several meters of cat5 cable.";
 269:	return "A scrap of parchment bears the single word, ~meow~.";
 270:	return "A puddle of chocolate sauce.";
@@ -1039,7 +1202,7 @@ Global last_right = false;
 281:	return "Nipples, dimples, knuckles, NICKLES, wrinkles, pimples!!";
 282:	return "A bottle of hair tonic.";
 283:	return "A packet of catnip.";
-284:	return "It's Cal Worthington and his dog ~Spot~!";
+284:	return "Here's Cal Worthington and his dog ~Spot~!";
 285:	return "It's Uncle Doctor Hurkamur!";
 286:	return "YEEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAA!!!!!";
 287:	return "Thunder, Thunder, Thunder, Thunder Cats!!!";
@@ -1080,10 +1243,10 @@ Global last_right = false;
 322:	return "A ketchup bottle (nearly empty).";
 323:	return "A large pile of rubber bands.";
 324:	return "A ton of feathers.";
-325:	return "This non kitten may contain peanuts.";
+325:	return "This nonkitten may contain peanuts.";
 326:	return "A tree with some jelly nailed to it.";
 327:	return "Ah, the skirl of the pipes and the rustle of the silicon...";
-328:	return "You found Parakeet.  To bad this isn't ~Robot Finds Parakeet~.";
+328:	return "You found Parakeet!  Too bad this isn't ~robotfindsparakeet~.";
 329:	return "A ball of yarn.";
 330:	return "A big chunk of frozen chocolate pudding.";
 331:	return "There is no tea here.";
@@ -1111,10 +1274,480 @@ Global last_right = false;
 353:	return "What's that blue thing doing here?";
 354:	return "A travel-sized cyclotron.";
 355:	return "A largish bath towel.";
-356:	return "You found Chinchilla!  Too bad this isn't ~Robot Finds Chinchilla~.";
+356:	return "You found Chinchilla!  Too bad this isn't ~robotfindschinchilla~.";
 357:	return "A meerkat... not even close.";
 358:	return "A green yo-yo.";
 359:	return "A hairless rat.";
 360:	return "Bright copper kettles.";
+
+! The following Non Kitten Items were added by David Griffith for
+! Release 3
+!
+361:	return "Ten yards of avocado-green shag carpet.";
+362:	return "A zorkmid coin.";
+363:	return "It's Babe Flathead's favorite bat.";
+364:	return "It's cute like a kitten, but isn't a kitten.";
+365:	return "A cyclops glowers angrily at you.";
+366:	return "A discarded pop bottle.";
+367:	return "Definitely not Kitten.";
+368:	return "A mouse.";
+369:	return "Slack!";
+370:	return "A troll.  Ewww!!!";
+371:	return "A tube of white lithium grease.  Perfect for your robotic joints.";
+372:	return "Talcum powder.";
+373:	return "A breadbox.  Nope, Kitten isn't in the breadbox.";
+374:	return "An unlicensed nuclear accelerator.";
+375:	return "A sub-atomic particle languishes here all alone.";
+376:	return "A bowling ball with the name ~Bob~ inscribed on it.";
+377:	return "A briefcase filled with spy stuff.";
+378:	return "Is that an elephant's head or a winged sandal?";
+379:	return "Bibbidy bibbidy bibbidy bibbidy bibbidy bibbidy...";
+380:	return "A tube of toothpaste.  Too bad you have no teeth.";
+381:	return "This isn't the item you're looking for.";
+382:	return "A discarded refrigerator box.  Nope, Kitten isn't in the box.";
+383:	return "A paper shopping bag.  Nope, Kitten isn't in the bag.";
+384:	return "A flyer reads, ~Please donate hydraulic fluid~";
+385:	return "A dangly thing mangled by Kitten.";
+386:	return "A crouton.";
+387:	return "A patch from the Mammoth Caves.";
+388:	return "A leather pouch filled with multisided dice.";
+389:	return "A pair of combat boots.";
+390:	return "A pile of coconuts.";
+391:	return "A big bass drum bearing a hole and suspicious clawmarks.";
+392:	return "It's a clue!";
+393:	return "Long lost needle nose pliers.";
+394:	return "A vase of roses.";
+395:	return "A crystal ball.  It doesn't seem to know where Kitten is.";
+396:	return "It's Princess Leia, the yodel of life.";
+397:	return "Sigmund Freud is here asking about your mother.";
+398:	return "BURRRRP!!!!  Flavorful and full of protein!";
+399:	return "A jar of library paste.";
+400:	return "These aren't ordinary beans.  They're magic beans!";
+401:	return "Some sort of electronic handheld game from the 1970s.";
+
+! The following Non Kitten Items were added by David Griffith for
+! Release 4
+!
+402:	return "Just some glop of some sort.";
+403:	return "A bottle of distilled water.";
+404:	return "A rusty slinky.  It was such a wonderful toy!";
+405:	return "Some coconut crabs are milling about here.";
+406:	return "Dancing cold water pipes.  Mikey must have been here.";
+407:	return "Ash is mumbling ~KLAATU BARATA NI<coughcough>~ here.";
+408:	return "It's a blob of white goo.";
+
+! The following Non Kitten Items were added by David Griffith from the
+! official list of NKIs.
+!
+409:	return "A gravestone stands here.  ~Izchak Miller, ascended.~";
+410:	return "Someone has written ~ad aerarium~ on the ground here.";
+410:	return "A large blue eye floats in midair.";
+411:	return "This appears to be a statue of Perseus.";
+412:	return "There is an opulent throne here.";
+413:	return "It's a squad of Keystone Kops.";
+414:	return "This seems to be junk mail addressed to the finder of the Eye of Larn.";
+415:	return "A wondrous and intricate golden amulet.  Too bad you have no neck.";
+416:	return "The swampy ground around you seems to stink with disease.";
+417:	return "An animate blob of acid.  Being metallic, you keep well away.";
+418:	return "It's a copy of Knuth with the chapter on kitten-search algorithms torn out.";
+419:	return "A crowd of people, and at the center, a popular misconception.";
+420:	return "It's a blind man.  When you touch, he exclaims ~It's a kitten prospecting robot!~";
+421:	return "It's a lost wallet.  It's owner didn't have pets, so you discard it.";
+422:	return "This place is called Antarctica.  There is no kitten here.";
+423:	return "It's a mousetrap, baited with soap.";
+424:	return "A book with ~Don't Panic~ in large friendly letters across the cover.";
+425:	return "A compendium of haiku about metals.";
+426:	return "A discredited cosmology, relic of a bygone era.";
+427:	return "A hollow voice says ~Plugh~.";
+428:	return "A knight who says ~Either I am an insane knave, or you will find kitten.~";
+429:	return "A neural net -- maybe it's trying to recognize kitten.";
+430:	return "A screwdriver.";
+431:	return "A statue of a girl holding a goose like the one in Gottingen, Germany.";
+432:	return "A tetradrachm dated ~42 B.C.~";
+433:	return "A voice booms out ~Onward, kitten soldiers...~";
+434:	return "An eminently forgettable zahir.";
+435:	return "Apparently, it's Edmund Burke.";
+436:	return "For a moment, you feel something in your hands, but it disappears!";
+437:	return "Here is a book about Robert Kennedy.";
+438:	return "Hey, robot, leave those lists alone.";
+439:	return "Ho hum.  Another synthetic a posteriori.";
+440:	return "It's Asimov's Laws of Robotics.  You feel a strange affinity for them.";
+441:	return "It's Bach's Mass in B-minor!";
+442:	return "It's a bug.";
+443:	return "It's a synthetic a priori truth!  Immanuel would be so pleased!";
+444:	return "It's the Tiki Room.";
+445:	return "Just some old play by a Czech playwright, and you can't read Czech.";
+446:	return "Kitten is the letter 'Q'.  Oh, wait, maybe not.";
+447:	return "Quidquid Latine dictum sit, kitten non est.";
+448:	return "Sutro Tower is visible at some distance through the fog.";
+449:	return "The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998.";
+450:	return "The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.";
+451:	return "The non-kitten item like this but with ~false~ and ~true~ switched is true.";
+452:	return "This is the chapter called ~A Map of the Cat?~ from Feynman's autobiography.";
+453:	return "This is the forest primeval.";
+454:	return "Werner's ~Pocket Field Guide to Things That Are Not Kitten~.";
+455:	return "You found nettik, but that's backwards.";
+456:	return "You have found some zinc, but you must not stop here, for you must find kitten.";
+457:	return "~50 Years Among the Non-Kitten Items~, by Ann Droyd.";
+458:	return "~Robot may not injure kitten, or, through inaction, ...~";
+459:	return "~Address Allocation for Private Internets~ by Yakov Rekhter et al.";
+460:	return "~Mail Routing and the Domain System~ by Craig Partridge.";
+461:	return "~The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism~ by Emmanuel Goldstein.";
+462:	return "~201 Kitten Verbs, Fully Conjugated~.  You look for ~find~.";
+463:	return "A card shark sits here, practicing his Faro shuffle.  He ignores you.";
+463:	return "A copy of DeCSS.  They're a dime a dozen these days.";
+464:	return "A demonic voice proclaims ~There is no kitten, only Zuul~.  You flee.";
+465:	return "A lotus.  You make an interesting pair.";
+466:	return "A milk carton, with a black and white picture of kitten on the side.";
+467:	return "Any ordinary robot could see from a mile away that this wasn't kitten.";
+468:	return "A stegosaurus, escaped from the stegosaurusfindsrobot game.  It finds you.";
+469:	return "Baling wire and chewing gum.";
+470:	return "Chewing gum and baling wire.";
+471:	return "Here is no kitten but only rock, rock and no kitten and the sandy road.";
+472:	return "Hey, I bet you thought this was kitten.";
+473:	return "It is an ancient mariner, and he stoppeth one of three.";
+474:	return "It pleases you to be kind to what appears to be kitten -- but it's not!";
+475:	return "It's a blatant plug for Ogg Vorbis, http://www.vorbis.com/";
+476:	return "It's a business plan for a new startup, kitten.net.";
+477:	return "It's a revised business plan for a new startup, my.kitten.net.";
+478:	return "It's a square.";
+479:	return "It seems to be a copy of ~A Tail of Two Kitties~.";
+480:	return "It's the Donation of Constantine!";
+481:	return "It's this message, nothing more.";
+482:	return "Lysine, an essential amino acid.  Well, maybe not for robots.";
+483:	return "No kitten here.";
+484:	return "The score for a Czech composer's ~Kitten-Finding Symphony in C~.";
+485:	return "This looks like Bradley's ~Appearance and Reality~, but it's really not.";
+486:	return "This non-kitten item no verb.";
+487:	return "You feel strangely unfulfilled.";
+488:	return "You hit the non-kitten item.  The non-kitten item fails to yowl.";
+489:	return "You suddenly yearn for your distant homeland.";
+490:	return "You've found the snows of yesteryear!  So that's where they all went to.";
+491:	return "Approaching.  One car.  J.  Followed by.  Two car.  M, M.  In five. Minutes.";
+491:	return "Free Jon Johansen!";
+492:	return "Free Dmitry Sklyarov!";
+493:	return "One person shouts ~What do we want?~ The crowd answers ~Free Dmitry!~";
+494:	return "Judith Platt insults librarians.";
+495:	return "This map is not the territory.";
+496:	return "~Go back to Libraria!~, says Pat Schroeder.";
+497:	return "This is a porcelain kitten-counter.  0, 0, 0, 0, 0...";
+498:	return "An old bootable business card, unfortunately cracked down the middle.";
+499:	return "A kitten sink, for washing kitten (if only kitten liked water).";
+500:	return "A kitten source (to match the kitten sink).";
+501:	return "If it's one thing, it's not another.";
+502:	return "If it's not one thing, it's another.";
+503:	return "A caboodle.";
+504:	return "A grin.";
+505:	return "A hedgehog.  It looks like it knows something important.";
+506:	return "You've found... Oh wait, that's just a cat.";
+507:	return "Robot should not be touching that.";
+508:	return "Air Guitar!!!  NA na NA na!!";
+509:	return "An aromatherapy candle burns with healing light.";
+510:	return "You find a bright shiny penny.";
+511:	return "It's a free Jon Johansen!";
+512:	return "It's a free Dmitry Sklyarov!";
+513:	return "The rothe hits!  The rothe hits!";
+514:	return "It's an Internet chain letter about sodium laureth sulfate.";
+515:	return "Ed Witten sits here, pondering string theory.";
+516:	return "Something is written here in the dust.  You read: ~rJbotfndQkttten~.";
+517:	return "We wish you a merry kitten, and a happy New Year!";
+518:	return "Run away!  Run away!";
+519:	return "You can see right through this copy of Brin's ~Transparent Society~.";
+520:	return "This copy of ~Steal This Book~ has been stolen from a bookstore.";
+521:	return "It's Roya Naini.";
+522:	return "This kit is the fourteenth in a series of kits named with Roman letters.";
+523:	return "This is the tenth key you've found so far.";
+524:	return "You find a fraud scheme in which loans are used as security for other loans.";
+525:	return "It's the phrase ~and her~, written in ancient Greek.";
+526:	return "It's the author of ~Randomness and Mathematical Proof~.";
+527:	return "It's the crusty exoskeleton of an arthropod!";
+528:	return "It's Emporer Shaddam the 4th's planet!";
+529:	return "It's the triangle leg adjacent to an angle divided by the leg opposite it.";
+530:	return "It's a bottle of nail polish remover.";
+531:	return "You found netkit!  Way to go, robot!";
+532:	return "It's the ASCII Floating Head of Seth David Schoen!";
+533:	return "A frosted pink party-cake, half eaten.";
+534:	return "A bitchin' homemade tesla coil.";
+535:	return "Conan O'Brian, sans jawbone.";
+536:	return "It's either a mirror, or another soulless kitten-seeking robot.";
+537:	return "Preoccupation with finding kitten prevents you from investigating further.";
+538:	return "Fonzie sits here, mumbling incoherently about a shark and a pair of waterskis.";
+539:	return "The ghost of your dance instructor, his face a paper-white mask of evil.";
+540:	return "A bag of groceries taken off the shelf before the expiration date.";
+541:	return "A book: Feng Shui, Zen: the art of randomly arranging items that are not kitten.";
+542:	return "This might be the fountain of youth, but you'll never know.";
+543:	return "Tigerbot Hesh.";
+544:	return "Stimutacs.";
+545:	return "A canister of pressurized whipped cream, sans whipped cream.";
+546:	return "The non-kitten item bites!";
+547:	return "A chain hanging from two posts reminds you of the Gateway Arch.";
+548:	return "A mathematician calculates the halting probability of a Turing machine.";
+549:	return "A number of short theatrical productions are indexed 1, 2, 3, ... n.";
+550:	return "A technical university in Australia.";
+551:	return "It is -- I just feel something wonderful is about to happen.";
+552:	return "It's a Cat 5 cable.";
+553:	return "It's a U.S. president.";
+554:	return "It's a piece of cloth used to cover a stage in between performances.";
+555:	return "The ionosphere seems charged with meaning.";
+556:	return "This tomography is like, hella axial, man!";
+557:	return "It's your favorite game -- robotfindscatan!";
+558:	return "Just a man selling an albatross.";
+559:	return "The intermission from a 1930s silent movie.";
+560:	return "It's an inverted billiard ball!";
+561:	return "The spectre of Sherlock Holmes wills you onwards.";
+
+! The following Non Kitten Items were added by David Griffith for
+! Release 5
+!
+562:	return "It's a cookie shaped like a kitten.";
+563:	return "It's Professor Feedlebom.";
+564:	return "A bottle of smelling salts.";
+565:	return "Dinsdale!";
+566:	return "An Enfield Mk3 rifle.";
+567:	return "An M16 rifle.";
+568:	return "An M1911A1 pistol.";
+569:	return "An M9 pistol.";
+570:	return "It's a gun of some sort.";
+571:	return "An FN-FAL rifle.";
+572:	return "An old rusty revolver.";
+573:	return "An AK-47 rifle.";
+574:	return "An AK-97 rifle.";
+575:	return "A Remington 870 shotgun.";
+576:	return "It's a NetBSD install CD.";
+577:	return "It's a recursive recursive recursive recursive recursive...";
+578:	return "It's Brian Kernigan.";
+579:	return "It's Dennis Ritchie.";
+580:	return "It's nothing in particular.";
+581:	return "Just a box of backscratchers.";
+582:	return "An expired transistor.";
+583:	return "Air.";
+584:	return "A steam-powered bunnytron.";
+585:	return "Heeeeeeeeeeeeres Johnny!";
+586:	return "It's a catalog from some company called Infocom.";
+587:	return "A dark-emitting diode.";
+588:	return "A 256 kilobyte write-only memory chip.";
+589:	return "A box of brand-new nixie tubes.";
+590:	return "Alien underwear.";
+591:	return "A sack of hammers.";
+592:	return "A sack of wet mice.";
+593:	return "A sack of doorknobs.";
+594:	return "A rusty melon-baller.";
+595:	return "An atomic vector plotter.";
+596:	return "You really don't want to know what this is.";
+597:	return "A 100 meter long chain of jumbo paper clips.";
+598:	return "A cockatoo shrieks at you.";
+599:	return "It's Mary Poppins!";
+600:	return "A slightly-used smellovision set.";
+601:	return "Doodles Weaver is here looking over a horse race schedule.";
+602:	return "An overflowing bit bucket.";
+
+! The following Non Kitten Items were added by David Griffith for
+! Release 6
+!
+603:	return "Blarg!";
+604:	return "It's a hairy-armed hitchhiker!";
+605:	return "A wolf wearing a nightgown is in bed here.";
+606:	return "A gecko zooms about on a skateboard here.";
+607:	return "A hovercraft full of eels is parked here.";
+608:	return "A waffle iron is here and it's still hot.";
+609:	return "A huge pile of pancakes.";
+610:	return "A threadbare tweed suit.";
+611:	return "A rusted safety pin.";
+612:	return "A model of a twin-hulled sailboat.";
+613:	return "A jar of lemon curd.";
+614:	return "~We interrupt this Zen Simulation...~";
+615:	return "A sealed tin bearing only the word ~yummy~.";
+616:	return "It's a groat coated with pocket fluff.";
+617:	return "You find an Atari 2600 game cartridge with no label.";
+618:	return "A child's drawing of a kitten.";
+619:	return "It's a small bouncy creature, but obviously not kitten.";
+620:	return "It's an unknown area code.";
+621:	return "A bottle of ammonia.";
+622:	return "Tweeting birds.";
+623:	return "It's a rapidly oscillating function.";
+624:	return "A dogcow moofs at you.";
+625:	return "A puddle of purple semi-gloss latex paint.";
+626:	return "It's a merry-go-round (broken down).";
+627:	return "The pants that Curly died in.";
+628:	return "A vanilla pudding pop.";
+629:	return "It's Jesse James' severed hand and it's still moving.";
+630:	return "It's more money than you'll ever need.";
+631:	return "A tiny robot scuttles across the floor.";
+632:	return "Chunk is here doing the truffle-shuffle.";
+633:	return "Data is here setting up some booty traps.";
+634:	return "A waterlogged grand piano.";
+635:	return "One liter of fuming nitric acid.";
+636:	return "A gold-dipped rose.";
+637:	return "Bronzed baby shoes.";
+638:	return "An electric engraving pencil.";
+639:	return "A small, featureless, white cube.";
+640:	return "It's a battery-powered brass lantern.";
+641:	return "It's an elongated brown sack, smelling of hot peppers.";
+642:	return "A glass bottle containing a quantity of water.";
+643:	return "It's a blob of red goo.";
+644:	return "It's a blob of blue goo.";
+645:	return "It's a blob of yellow goo.";
+646:	return "It's a blob of green goo.";
+647:	return "It's a blob of orange goo.";
+648:	return "It's a blob of purple goo.";
+649:	return "It's a blob of black goo.";
+650:	return "It's a blob of brown goo.";
+651:	return "A Scooby Snack!  Yay!";
+652:	return "A squirrel contentedly gnaws on a sprinkler head here.";
+653:	return "Snacky things.";
+654:	return "A toupee.";
+655:	return "Seat cushion fluff.";
+656:	return "Jacket fluff.";
+657:	return "Haven't you touched this thing before?";
+658:	return "It's a copy of the Book of Found Kittens.";
+659:	return "It's a nasty knife.";
+660:	return "It's a grue.  Fortunately, they don't like to eat robots.";
+661:	return "It's a phone book for the 661 area code.";
+662:	return "A tiny velvet pouch.";
+663:	return "Brass tacks.";
+664:	return "It's a rotating potato.";
+665:	return "Leave that thing alone!";
+666:	return "It's the mark of the beast!";
+667:	return "A tube of heat sink grease.";
+668:	return "A dead battery.";
+669:	return "A pile of irrigation valves.";
+670:	return "A stony meteorite.";
+671:	return "An iron meteorite.";
+672:	return "It's a fragment of an old Russian spacecraft.";
+673:	return "A large block of dry ice.";
+674:	return "It's a Commodore 64 computer (in mint condition).";
+675:	return "It's an Apple II+ computer (in mint condition).";
+676:	return "It's a Kaypro II portable computer.";
+677:	return "It's a Texas Instruments TI-89 graphing calculator.";
+678:	return "It's an Atari 800 computer.";
+679:	return "It's an Amiga 2000 computer.";
+680:	return "An oddly familiar face shouts ~SCREWTEK!~ from this computer monitor.";
+681:	return "It's an Osborne portable computer.";
+682:	return "It's a nameless MSX computer from Japan.";
+683:	return "A vacuum cleaner appears to have exploded here.";
+684:	return "It's a model of a catamaran.";
+685:	return "A cardboard box of sheet metal screws.";
+686:	return "A brown glass vial labeled ~tincture of iodine~.";
+687:	return "Just some sort of cat toy.";
+688:	return "It's a large pile of crumpled notepaper.";
+689:	return "You've found the decoy kitten!";
+690:	return "It's a pile of wine corks.";
+691:	return "A neat pile of plastic irrigation pipe.";
+692:	return "It's one of those carpet-covered things for cats to climb.";
+693:	return "This thing appears to be an ancient Roman breastplate.";
+694:	return "A claymore.";
+695:	return "An unripe orange.";
+696:	return "A toy zeppelin.";
+697:	return "It's a bucket of mud.";
+698:	return "It's a bucket of water.";
+699:	return "A clay pot with grass growing it in sits here.";
+700:	return "A discarded envelope chewed by Kitten.";
+701:	return "A hollow voice says ~Fool!~";
+702:	return "Several hackles are here and they appear to be up.";
+703:	return "Just some spite.";
+704:	return "Vitriol.";
+705:	return "There is a small mailbox here.";
+706:	return "A large oriental rug.";
+707:	return "It's an elvish sword of great antiquity.";
+708:	return "A large coil of rope is here.";
+709:	return "You've found a speed bump.";
+710:	return "It's a whirly thing of some sort.";
+711:	return "An empty Slurpee cup.";
+712:	return "This is a disaster area.";
+713:	return "A small box of fishing weights.";
+714:	return "A street map of the city of Anaheim.";
+715:	return "Bits of red construction paper are scattered all about.";
+716:	return "You won't believe what this is.";
+717:	return "A meat-scented air-freshener on a string dances in the breeze.";
+718:	return "A intact clay pigeon.";
+719:	return "Pieces of broken clay pigeons are scattered all about.";
+720:	return "This looks like a skateboarding arcade video game.";
+721:	return "It's a steaming bowl of homemade gnocci.";
+722:	return "An electric fan lies on its side here.";
+723:	return "It's something fizzy.";
+724:	return "A hickory stump.";
+725:	return "This tiny barbecue is spotlessly clean.";
+726:	return "A saucer of milk, untouched by Kitten.";
+727:	return "Insane laughter issues from this vibrating shipping crate.";
+728:	return "Haven't you checked here already?";
+729:	return "Just some rusted lug nuts and an ancient hub cap.";
+730:	return "A rusty crowbar.";
+731:	return "A post hole digger is stuck in a pile of dirt here.";
+732:	return "It's a spade.";
+733:	return "It's the Queen of Hearts! ~Off with their heads!~, she shouts.";
+734:	return "An assortment of highly-nutritious vegetables.";
+735:	return "A dead click beetle.";
+736:	return "A roll of scratch-and-sniff stickers.";
+737:	return "A roll of duct tape.";
+738:	return "Someone dropped a cheap ballpoint pen here.";
+739:	return "Someone dropped an expensive fountain pen here.";
+740:	return "You've found the Gingerbread Man!";
+741:	return "You've found the Stinky Cheese Man!";
+742:	return "This looks like an umbrella turned inside out.";
+743:	return "3.14159...  Pi is all over the place here...";
+744:	return "You almost mistook this meatloaf for Kitten.";
+745:	return "This drawer is full of dried out rubber stoppers.";
+746:	return "A flask of hydrochloric acid is here.";
+747:	return "Why are you bothering that old man instead of finding Kitten?";
+748:	return "It's a hyperkinetic rabbity thing.";
+749:	return "A dog dressed in a cheap suit is here.";
+750:	return "~Help me Robot! You're my only hope!~";
+751:	return "You found Budgie! Too bad this isn't ~robotfindsbudgie~.";
+752:	return "It's a sleeping lion.";
+753:	return "It's an example of the infamous space-cadet keyboard.";
+754:	return "You find a random assortment of dots and dashes.";
+755:	return "Nothing but some scribbles in crayon.";
+756:	return "It's a week-old baloney sandwich.";
+757:	return "It's a red stapler.";
+758:	return "It's a red staple-remover.";
+759:	return "It's a ~Wicked Tinkers~ CD.";
+760:	return "You see a rhinestone-studded dog collar, but no dog.";
+761:	return "It's a box of lox.";
+762:	return "It's a box of pinball machine parts.";
+763:	return "You've discovered an enormous pile of socks.";
+764:	return "It's a photograph of Kitten.";
+
+! The following Non Kitten Items were added by David Griffith for
+! Release 7
+!
+765:	return "It's a copy editor, reading aloud from the Associated Press Stylebook.";
+765:	return "It's a copy editor, reading aloud from the MLA Stylebook.";
+766:	return "Kitty kibble is scattered all about.";
+767:	return "A bartender growls, ~No robots allowed!~";
+768:	return "It's a Franklin Ebookman.";
+769:	return "It's a child's kitten pull-toy.";
+770:	return "~I'm Speed Racer and I drive real fast!~";
+771:	return "~I drive real fast.  I'm gonna last.~";
+772:	return "~I'm a big pirate and I like to steal!~";
+773:	return "~I like to steal and I like to kill!~";
+774:	return "~I'm a Barbie doll but I've got brains!~";
+775:	return "~I'm your doctor and here's the bill.~";
+776:	return "Go! Go! Go, Speed Racer!";
+777:	return "It's a Boeing 777 airliner.";
+778:	return "Someone is taking time out for fun here.";
+779:	return "You see a street lamp and a lamplighter here.";
+780:	return "A broken cricket bat.";
+781:	return "It's a mint-condition IMSAI 8080 computer!";
+782:	return "A hollow voice says ~xyzzy~.";
+783:	return "Wimpy is here asking for a hamburger.";
+784:	return "You found Olive Oyl!";
+785:	return "It's Popeye!";
+786:	return "Bluto is here looking for Olive Oyl.";
+787:	return "~Et tu, Brutus?~";
+788:	return "The bodily remains of a Roman emperor.";
+789:	return "Yay! It's a hoola hoop!";
+790:	return "The Smart Patrol is here.";
+791:	return "It's an old sandal.";
+792:	return "It's a feather duster.";
+793:	return "It's a zipper.";
+794:	return "It's an old crumhorn with a broken reed.";
+795:	return "A sticky old cough drop.";
+796:	return "A jar of buttons.";
+797:	return "A bearded dragon lizard is sitting here.";
+798:	return "A garden toad.";
+799:	return "A garden gnome.";
+800:	return "A garden weasel.";
+
+default: return "Unknown NKI (this should not happen)";
 	}
 ];