X-Git-Url: https://jxself.org/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=notes.adoc;h=19efbbc486cd724c77ae048639194049cb5e0f69;hb=06e8d5a83e2e8ee5f13c2d5439adecef6fdeb563;hp=a4eabf4680fdff449aee4716bd7c579b4a54eb1e;hpb=2182dc23ff80e33a10952fcd9c1cfe25c91b971f;p=open-adventure.git diff --git a/notes.adoc b/notes.adoc index a4eabf4..19efbbc 100644 --- a/notes.adoc +++ b/notes.adoc @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ The principal maintainers of this code are Eric S. Raymond and Jason Ninneman. Eric received Don Woods's encouragement to update and ship the game; Jason signed on early in the process to help. The assistance of Peje Nilsson in restructuring some particularly grotty gotos is -gratefully acknowledged. +gratefully acknowledged. Petr Voropaev contributed fuzz testing. == Nomenclature == @@ -73,6 +73,9 @@ necessarily pretty ugly by modern standards. Encryption and checksumming have been discarded - it's pointless to try tamper-proofing saves when everyone has the source code. +A -r command-line been added. When it is given (with a file +path argument) it is functionally equivalent to RESTORE command. + == Translation == The 2.5 code was a mechanical C translation of a FORTRAN original. @@ -114,9 +117,10 @@ ways: and the choice to refrain will make forward translation into future languages easier. -* There are a few gotos left that resist restructuring; all of these +* There are a few gotos left that resist restructuring; all but of these are in the principal command interpreter function implementing its - state machine. + state machine. the remaining one is a truly mysterious artficat in + the player-movement code. * Linked lists (for objects at a location) are implemented using an array of link indices. This is a surviving FORTRANism that is quite unlike