Re: [Slashem-devel] Changes in Nightmare's Nightmare World

[<Tin...@ra...>]

Darshan S  wrote:
> Tina Hall wrote:
> > Darshan S  wrote:
> >
> > > I normally compile a DOS binary of the CVS version of
> > > Slash'EM every other day and play many of my games on it
> > > (primarily my pacifist attempts :)).
> >
> > So it's playable, yes? (Why primarily pacifists?)
>
> Because otherwise I play Lethe. I don't want my pacifists to
> get entangled with Lethe's lethal spellcasters. It also means
> I can't play with the pet ranged attack patch, but to balance
> that, I can spot bugs in new Slash'EM features quickly and
> help the DevTeam that way.

If they want play-testers, then I'd always be a willing victim.
:)

> As for the playability, it seems no worse than the stable
> branch, although there are oddities. And you do not want
> to play the CVS binary in serious games.

I don't understand 'CVS' in this context, I thought it was just
something to sort out different branches?

Why not play it a serous game with it?

> > Was hoping to attempt compiling myself soon, but the source
> > code (3.4.0 for a start) a helpful soul send along was some
> > weird Linux thingy, so that might take a while to sort out
> > yet.
>
> The only Linuxy thing about the sources are that lines end
> with line feeds instead of LF-CR and that some files have long
> file names. What happens to the long file names on OS/2?

My harddrives only have FAT-16, and I've got no OS/2 unzip to
test whatever it might be able to do despite that.

> The setup.bat in sys/msdos should rename long file names to
> short ones for a DOS compile.

Apparrently, it's only the top directory that's got the weird
filename, anything else should be ok.

> > Next time there's any update with your patched Slash'EM
> > version (Is there one yet?),
>
> No, I haven't updated my stuff for 6E4F8. It normally takes me
> several hours to port all the patches and build all the
> binaries, so I've slated that for the weekend.

Whenever you do find the time, I'd appreciate an update. :)

> > could you just send over the relevant preview files too,
> > please?
>
> Preview files? What are they? Do you mean the binary of the
> preview version?

Yes. Still confused about all this new stuff. It'll take some
time to register any comprehensible and easy accessible meanings
somewhere in the vacuum that inhabits my head. ;) (Right now it's
fighting the explanations.) It's hard to find words for what I'm
asking, or understand what anyone's talking about until then.

Tschuess
Tina
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