X-Git-Url: https://jxself.org/git/?p=open-adventure.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=notes.adoc;h=6ee80a5a463cc51799207b2295d0f92c671f98f4;hp=8838393054e37fdadbda049dee027b7b1cc62bb9;hb=039c06882ea0631ca918424b66473bc545b60a99;hpb=f1d3b75561ad4275155327d13696fb5978f47df0 diff --git a/notes.adoc b/notes.adoc index 8838393..6ee80a5 100644 --- a/notes.adoc +++ b/notes.adoc @@ -58,6 +58,10 @@ Bug fixes: incorrect most places it appeared and has been replaced by "A crystal bridge spans the fissure."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). +* 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). @@ -76,14 +80,14 @@ Unrecognized words are no longer truncated to 5 characters and uppercased when they are echoed. The "-o" (oldstyle) option restores this behavior. -Typing a numeric literal to the command prompt no longer triggers a -fatal error. This change is reverted by the oldstyle option. - A "seed" command has been added. This is not intended for human use 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 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 @@ -131,7 +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 -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. @@ -165,7 +169,7 @@ 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.