Unangband 0.6.4a released

[andrewdoull]

You can download the source code from http://prdownload.berlios.de/unangba...d-064a-src.zip and a precompiled Windows build from http://prdownload.berlios.de/unangba...d-064a-win.zip.

Changes in this release:

- Fix crash on Windows when levelling up (Reported by michielgk).

- Prevent friendly uniques from being invulnerable to enemy attacks (Reported by Ashkir).

[SaThaRiel]

Nice one Andrew.
In version 0.4.6b may it be possible to split the game and the sound packages? The download is really big for an angband variant.

Oh, i never saw a *band which compiles so nice like unangband Just 2 warning about unused variables and the old mkstemp problem.

[d_m]

Originally Posted by andrewdoull

You can download the source code from http://prdownload.berlios.de/unangba...d-064a-src.zip and a precompiled Windows build from http://prdownload.berlios.de/unangba...d-064a-win.zip

Hi Andrew,

FWIW, V has a version of main-ros.c that no longer uses path_temp() which is what uses tmpnam. If you just grab that code you can stop getting those warnings.

[Hajo]

I've been trying to compile this and get it running, but my compiled code seems to run into endless or at least very long loops in birth.c

Edit: Sorry. Must be a compiler problem. Rand_div always generates 0, that explains the problems. I'll see what went wrong there.

Edit: It works now. Seems the value table for the complex RNG was never initialized. Don't ask why, don't know either ...

[jrodman]

Originally Posted by Hajo

I've been trying to compile this and get it running, but my compiled code seems to run into endless or at least very long loops in birth.c

Edit: Sorry. Must be a compiler problem. Rand_div always generates 0, that explains the problems. I'll see what went wrong there.

Edit: It works now. Seems the value table for the complex RNG was never initialized. Don't ask why, don't know either ...

Huh, this is frustrating. I'm trying to get a 2001-era variant running, and i'm getting similar symptoms. You found a problem but don't explain what you changed.

I think psi-angband is based on 2.9.x, and keeps hanging in z-rand, but I'm not sure why.

I can see in a debugger that Rand_state has stuff in it....

Hmm, in my case the problem was:

* the values are defined as u32b.
* However, they were 64bit
* The loop only escapes if the values are below a threshold based on 32 bit values, so the loop will last 4 billion times longer than intended.
* Using the define L64 worked (which was intended for DEC alpha) which used unsigned and signed int instead of 'long' for u32 etc.
* In practice, this means I added -D"L64" to the compiler flags in Makefile.std.

The original symptom was a parse problem in the info files, because the code assumes the memory will fit, but is using 8-byte integers instead of 4-byte, which overflows the zeroed memory space.

[debo]

Originally Posted by jrodman

Huh, this is frustrating. I'm trying to get a 2001-era variant running, and i'm getting similar symptoms. You found a problem but don't explain what you changed.

I think psi-angband is based on 2.9.x, and keeps hanging in z-rand, but I'm not sure why.

I can see in a debugger that Rand_state has stuff in it....

Hmm, in my case the problem was:

* the values are defined as u32b.
* However, they were 64bit
* The loop only escapes if the values are below a threshold based on 32 bit values, so the loop will last 4 billion times longer than intended.
* Using the define L64 worked (which was intended for DEC alpha) which used unsigned and signed int instead of 'long' for u32 etc.
* In practice, this means I added -D"L64" to the compiler flags in Makefile.std.

The original symptom was a parse problem in the info files, because the code assumes the memory will fit, but is using 8-byte integers instead of 4-byte, which overflows the zeroed memory space.

usually you need to change the typedefs for the numeric types in 'types.h' to be something less archaic -- I think I've done this with animeband before just by looking at what the typedefs were in modern angband types.h and going with that.