Brass interface patch - Revision history

Furey: change infinite loop to infinite loop. fixes a redlink.

2024-06-17T05:25:46Z

change infinite loop to infinite loop. fixes a redlink.

Ray Chason: LInk to NetHack Plus

2012-12-19T03:51:30Z

LInk to NetHack Plus

Rogerb-on-NAO: Bypass disambig for Help

2008-06-18T16:04:25Z

Bypass disambig for Help

Shijun: /* Errata for version 0.1 */

2006-12-29T15:27:23Z

‎Errata for version 0.1

Kernigh: Yes, NAO inspired this patch.

2006-10-22T04:21:25Z

Yes, NAO inspired this patch.

Kernigh: If anyone bothers to have interest in my patch, then they could edit this page if they so wish.

2006-09-22T03:23:15Z

If anyone bothers to have interest in my patch, then they could edit this page if they so wish.

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The '''brass interface [[patch]]''' contains ports of five [[vanilla]] interface patches to [[NetHack brass]]. The patch should not change any [[gameplay]]. It also fixes a few bugs (especially for those upon [[Unix]]), including one that could cause an [[infinite loop]] in [[Gehennom]]. It also updates some [[help]] files and the [[Guidebook]]. You need a copy of [[NetHack brass]] 040923 to apply the patch against.

Download the patch from:
: http://kernigh.pbwiki.com/f/brass-interface-01.diff

Those on [[Unix]] should run setup.sh in sys/unix ''after'' applying this patch (for a fix to the top-level Makefile). For Unix users, the patch also creates a new option CONFIGFILE in section 3 of [[config.h]]. The intent is that by setting CONFIGFILE is ".brassrc", the game will try to load ~/.brassrc before loading ~/.nethackrc so that some users can maintain separate configurations for brass and vanilla, but users without ~/.brassrc still use ~/.nethackrc.

The patch will enable all of the new defines in config.h by default (in fact it will also try to enable AUTOPICKUP_EXCEPTIONS). To make good use of the patch, you also need to set up some [[option]]s in your NetHack config file.

== From the README ==
At 23 September 2004, Youkan modified the source code of NetHack 3.4.3 and ported some code from Stephan White's NetHack Plus to form the variant called NetHack brass 040923.

At 22 September 2006, [[User:Kernigh|Kernigh]] ported five interface patches from 3.4.3 to brass 040923, fixed a bug of infinite loops in mkriver in mkmap.c, updated the Guidebook and some help files, removed some compiler warnings and fixed a problem in the Unix Makefiles. The five patches were:
* Jukka Lahtinen's [[dump]], [[showborn]] and [[sortloot]] patches
* Pasi Kallinen's [[menucolors]] patch (see README.menucolor)
* Shachaf & Oren Ben-Kiki's [[statuscolors]] patch (see README.statuscolors)

== Errata for version 0.1 ==
* The patch modifies Guidebook.mn and Guidebook.tex but ''not'' Guidebook.txt (to reduce the size of the patch). Unix users can use the Makefile to remake Guidebook.txt from Guidebook.mn. (The Makefile normally ignores Guidebook.txt and creates another one called Guidebook.)
** Guidebook.mn and Guidebook.tex still do not explain how to use menucolors or statuscolors.
* The dump patch required some significant changes to work on NetHack brass and to avoid clashing with the statuscolors patch. Upon a dump (and remember to set the dump option to a filename), [[object]]s and [[riding monster]]s should appear correctly in the screen dump, while skills show as percentages in the skills dump. There might still be some bugs.
* There is a severe bug in [[NetHack brass]] which could cause an infinite loop in when generating rivers in the maze level below [[Medusa]]. On systems with unsigned "char", the C compiler was converting -1 to 255. Fortunately, this patch fixes the problem by declaring those integers as signed characters.

[[Category:Patches]]

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−	[[User:Kernigh\|Kernigh]] distributes a '''brass interface patch''' containing ports of five [[vanilla]] interface [[patch]]es to [[NetHack brass]] 040923 with the intention of bringing to NetHack brass an experience similar to that at [[nethack.alt.org]]. The patch fixes a few bugs (especially for those upon [[Unix]]), including one that could cause an [[infinite loop]] to hang the game in [[Gehennom]]. It also updates some [[help (in-game)\|help]] files and the [[Guidebook]]. You need a copy of [[NetHack brass]] 040923 to apply the patch against.	+	[[User:Kernigh\|Kernigh]] distributes a '''brass interface patch''' containing ports of five [[vanilla]] interface [[patch]]es to [[NetHack brass]] 040923 with the intention of bringing to NetHack brass an experience similar to that at [[nethack.alt.org]]. The patch fixes a few bugs (especially for those upon [[Unix]]), including one that could cause an [[wikipedia:infinite loop\|infinite loop]] to hang the game in [[Gehennom]]. It also updates some [[help (in-game)\|help]] files and the [[Guidebook]]. You need a copy of [[NetHack brass]] 040923 to apply the patch against.

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−	[[User:Kernigh\|Kernigh]] distributes a '''brass interface patch''' containing ports of five [[vanilla]] interface [[patch]]es to [[NetHack brass]] 040923 with the intention of bringing to NetHack brass an experience similar to that at [[nethack.alt.org]]. The patch fixes a few bugs (especially for those upon [[Unix]]), including one that could cause an [[infinite loop]] to hang the game in [[Gehennom]]. It also updates some [[help]] files and the [[Guidebook]]. You need a copy of [[NetHack brass]] 040923 to apply the patch against.	+	[[User:Kernigh\|Kernigh]] distributes a '''brass interface patch''' containing ports of five [[vanilla]] interface [[patch]]es to [[NetHack brass]] 040923 with the intention of bringing to NetHack brass an experience similar to that at [[nethack.alt.org]]. The patch fixes a few bugs (especially for those upon [[Unix]]), including one that could cause an [[infinite loop]] to hang the game in [[Gehennom]]. It also updates some [[help (in-game)\|help]] files and the [[Guidebook]]. You need a copy of [[NetHack brass]] 040923 to apply the patch against.

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 == From the README ==
-At 23 September 2004, Youkan modified the source code of NetHack 3.4.3 and ported some code from Stephan White's NetHack Plus to form the variant called NetHack brass 040923.
+At 23 September 2004, Youkan modified the source code of NetHack 3.4.3 and ported some code from Stephan White's [[NetHack Plus]] to form the variant called NetHack brass 040923.
 At 22 September 2006, [[User:Kernigh|Kernigh]] ported five interface patches from 3.4.3 to brass 040923, fixed a bug of infinite loops in mkriver in mkmap.c, updated the Guidebook and some help files, removed some compiler warnings and fixed a problem in the Unix Makefiles. The five patches were:

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 * The patch modifies Guidebook.mn and Guidebook.tex but ''not'' Guidebook.txt (to reduce the size of the patch). Unix users can use the Makefile to remake Guidebook.txt from Guidebook.mn. (The Makefile normally ignores Guidebook.txt and creates another one called Guidebook.)
 ** Guidebook.mn and Guidebook.tex still do not explain how to use menucolors or statuscolors.
-* The dump patch required some significant changes to work on NetHack brass and to avoid clashing with the statuscolors patch. Upon a dump (and remember to set the dump option to a filename), [[object]]s and [[riding monster]]s should appear correctly in the screen dump, while skills show as percentages in the skills dump. There might still be some bugs.
+* The dump patch required some significant changes to work on NetHack brass and to avoid clashing with the statuscolors patch. Upon a dump (and remember to set the dump option to a filename), [[item]]s and [[riding|ridden monsters]] should appear correctly in the screen dump, while skills show as percentages in the skills dump. There might still be some bugs.
-* There is a severe bug in [[NetHack brass]] which could cause an infinite loop in when generating rivers in the maze level below [[Medusa]]. On systems with unsigned "char", the C compiler was converting -1 to 255. Fortunately, this patch fixes the problem by declaring those integers as signed characters.
+* There is a severe bug in [[NetHack brass]] which could cause an infinite loop in when generating rivers in the maze level below [[Medusa's Island]]. On systems with unsigned "char", the C compiler was converting -1 to 255. Fortunately, this patch fixes the problem by declaring those integers as signed characters.
 [[Category:Patches]]

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-The '''brass interface [[patch]]''' contains ports of five [[vanilla]] interface patches to [[NetHack brass]]. The patch should not change any [[gameplay]]. It also fixes a few bugs (especially for those upon [[Unix]]), including one that could cause an [[infinite loop]] in [[Gehennom]]. It also updates some [[help]] files and the [[Guidebook]]. You need a copy of [[NetHack brass]] 040923 to apply the patch against.
+[[User:Kernigh|Kernigh]] distributes a '''brass interface patch''' containing ports of five [[vanilla]] interface [[patch]]es to [[NetHack brass]] 040923 with the intention of bringing to NetHack brass an experience similar to that at [[nethack.alt.org]]. The patch fixes a few bugs (especially for those upon [[Unix]]), including one that could cause an [[infinite loop]] to hang the game in [[Gehennom]]. It also updates some [[help]] files and the [[Guidebook]]. You need a copy of [[NetHack brass]] 040923 to apply the patch against.
 Download the patch from:
 : http://kernigh.pbwiki.com/f/brass-interface-01.diff
 Those on [[Unix]] should run setup.sh in sys/unix ''after'' applying this patch (for a fix to the top-level Makefile). For Unix users, the patch also creates a new option CONFIGFILE in section 3 of [[config.h]]. The intent is that by setting CONFIGFILE is ".brassrc", the game will try to load ~/.brassrc before loading ~/.nethackrc so that some users can maintain separate configurations for brass and vanilla, but users without ~/.brassrc still use ~/.nethackrc.