Fix markup.

[open-adventure.git] / notes.adoc

diff --git a/notes.adoc b/notes.adoc
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--- a/notes.adoc
+++ b/notes.adoc
@@ -58,6 +58,10 @@ Bug fixes:
   incorrect most places it appeared and has been replaced by "A crystal 
   bridge spans the fissure." (timeless present).
 
   incorrect most places it appeared and has been replaced by "A crystal 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).
 
 * Under odd circumstances (dropping rug or vase outdoors) the game could
   say "floor" when it should say "ground" (or "dirt", or something).
 


@@ -81,6 +85,9 @@ 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.
 
 that random events (dwarf & pirate appearances, the bird's magic word)
 will be reproducible.
 

+A "version" command has beem 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
 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 +135,7 @@ 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
 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.
 *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 +169,7 @@ ways:
   arrays are a cell larger than they strictly need to be and cell 0 is
   unused.
 
   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.
 
   like a FORTRAN or BCPL program.  Some (incomplete) effort has been made
   to introduce semantic types.