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Complete List of Changes From 5.1 (Note: this change list is cobbled together from various sources, and only lightly edited.) *** 5.5 Updated README Moved all system-dependent defines from config.h to the Imakefile. By virtue of the Imakefile, pcf font support was added as well as several install & clean definitions. Created an Imakefile. * b4 Added marginal support for HPUX. Including a user-written version of strcasecmp. Changed occurrences of #endif WORD to #endif /* WORD */ to shut up some wimpy preprocessors. Disabled the stack trace facility since the developer has a real debugger and the signal interceptor prevents the core from recording useful information. Fixed the OpenWindows input focus problem (ICCCM non-compliance on our part). Enabled the game to support more than 7 players. Added letters to the terrain font so that players above 9 would have unique identifiers. Added a little error checking to the resignation command. Added a world-map magnification option. Added the ability to add a player in the middle of the game. Very limited, and kinda screwy still. Improved the internal geometry manager to handle periods with lots of units a little better. Since having 20 allied robots results in a lot of view updating, robot alliances are now in blocks of 5-9 countries. This will make it a little easier for humans since robots can now fight each other. fixed the do_look command so that it's not shadowed by the do_fill command. Added a little error checking to the map loader so that 0-length files wouldn't crash it. Expanded unit ids to ints. This may cause problems since I can't guarantee I've found all the code that will be affected. Nailed a couple of bizzare conditions that CodeCenter found in the machine player. Bulletproofed the wake_unit code when passed an other==NULL. Did a little tapdance to prevent the "builder has moved" message when garrisoning. Also fixed the "nonmover has moved" message during garrisoning. Also don't print message when garrison operation doesn't destroy anything. Improved the resource distribution system. It seems to work well with the standard period and 4tech. Will it work with other periods as well? Tried to define the direction field in sergeant.c as a signed char, ran into a few problems with Sun's sucky compiler. Fixed bug where captured units regained full movement. They now merely hang onto whatever movement they had if the capturemoves periodflag is enabled. Added a few things to the manual page. Documented the resources. * b3 Better messages when searching for app-defaults and .Xdefaults. area-radius reimplemented finally. fixed problem in do_embark() caused by transport variable not being initialized. Made the help window behave better when handed unimplemented keystrokes. Made saved game restore more robust and verbose in the face of errors. Fixed version mismatch error message. Removed wander_to() from movement routine until we can decide what the movement routine's behaviour should be. Fixed cost estimation routine in sergeant.c that was broken in the shift from b1 to b2. Allowed units to consume their last fuel with a mouse click movement. Fixed problem where a maker intended to garrison its occupant would have both itself and that occupant destroyed before the occupant got placed correctly. *b2 Added period.leavemap and period.repairscale to per2c output. Fixed inconsistency in handling of repair for different repair rates and scales. Fixed curses display of neutral units to show a quote instead of "7". Hacked period reader so that a non-zero extension in the header means to not clear the period before reading (makes period inclusion more useful :-) ). Units not waiting to fill up will not be woken up when they become full. Added terrain name information to the info window. Fixed units changing sides so that you can't capture or give away units that don't change side. Also fixed it so that allied units couldn't be given away by an ally. Added X app-defaults handling (I think). Added an icon hint to the main window, made the help window part of main's windowgroup. Improved X resource handling some: added ability to set the showmode through resources. Improved X resize and expose handling (the latter was a VERY dramatic improvement). Fixed problems with the worldmap viewport box not being drawn correctly. Added better event handling so that the help window could stay up while the game was being played. Also bound a few more keys in the help window. Added the move-toward-unit command, accessible with the ^M key (move toward marked unit with confirmation) or <Shift><Mouse>. The possibility of binding different things to different mouse keys and different modifiers does not escape me. Added the ability to select the next unit to move in survey. Added automatic delay of off-screen units so that the action does not skip around as much (fewer viewport changes). Nailed a SEGV in maybe_wakeup. Added a parser keyword for the leave-map period variable. Added a new keyword repair-scale that sets how many hps are repaired each turn (assuming the chance succeeds). The repair system needs to be revamped in 6.0. Fixed the border condition in handling of crippled units. Added -d[display] to specify a display for the first (default) player. Changed xconq library dir to be settable from an env variable XCONQLIB. Stopped incessant scrolling when a unit is on the top edge. Changed config details to be defined by specific features, rather than by "BSD", "SYSV", etc (which never works right, Un*x systems are too mixed up these days). Made low-supply units not wake up if they are already on their way to a transport (doesn't check refueling ability though). Simplified X11 font opening to follow the standard. Flushed recognition of .b11 extension for X bitmap files, now only .b allowed. Converted all bitmaps to usual X11 arrangement (array of bytes, not words). Made color allocation more forgiving of slight mismatches in rgb values. Enabled clicking on world map to generate map positions just like map display. (!!) Added ability to resize window by dragging the corner (subwindows anyway, main window a problem). Changed period reader to only warn rather than error out if undefined words are seen. The stack is emptied out also. Changed movement algorithm to take a least-cost path that wouldn't run the unit out of resources. This was a superior rewrite of the 5.3 capabilities. Fixed the coast following routines, the new ones are also superior to 5.3 and handle map wrap. I had to create a new order-arg type for this. Modified follow leader to handle map wrap and use the new movement algorithm. Created a Fill command that would sleep the transport until it was full. This got hooked into occupy_unit, just like embark. Created a Move To Transport command that would send the unit to any nearest transport with orders to Fill. Changed the Return command into an actual order that would search for the nearest possible transport. The old Return code was actually implemented as a moveto, which didn't work too well when the destination moved. Added the ability to delete standing orders. Added the ability to set certain colors using the ResourceManager. No app-defaults parsing yet, but the .Xdefaults is supported as a fallback. Added rudimentary error handling upon failure to open a display. Handled interupted select system calls (handy when debugging). Did a teency bit of abstraction in the direction macros. Added some abstraction on the three delayed orders commands (Sentry, Embark and Fill). Kudos to Greg for thinking that stuff up. Rearranged a few keys to be more mnemonic and similar to 5.3 (at least I think they're mnemonic). Added a Move To Unit command, but didn't bind it anywhere, so why mention it? Maybe someone can suggest a good keybinding. Revamped copy_orders to use bcopy instead of the icky switch statment. This should work until the Order structure gets some pointers. Fixed the code so that units with see-range 0 wouldn't cause a floating exception. Fixed the path generation so that absolute paths could be given for period files. *** 5.4 Below are a list of changes to xconq that are noticeable to a user directly. In addition, a number of bug fixes have been made which are only noticeable in that the program fails to crash as often. The machine players have also been modified in a number of ways, which tends to improve their play. Playing changes --------------- Center is changed so that no units can be forgotten because of your, or another player doing a center command. Units wake up if an enemy appears next to them. The wakeup is immediate. They also remember why they were woken up even if the unit waking them has gone away. Changed name display so that only first part of host name displayed. Provided a second font for the help window. The default will be small enough that the whole standard help window will fit on the screen. Print a message at the start of each turn. Beep if active units are in play and time > start beep time has elapsed since the players last turn. This can be set with the option command. Fix display routine so that it does not make pieces disappear on small screens. Added clock to tell amount of time taken by each player. It displays if countdown clocks are not in use. Theses counts as well as the chess clock values are saved to the savefile. Added messages for segmentation faults and bus errors localizing the errors. This has expanded to a complete stack trace of some subset of the procedures called. Fixed standing orders so that they can be created and saved without crashing the program. The supply allocation has been changed so that units will not dump all of their supplies to a base. It should now try to do reasonable things for trying to make sure everyone has at least some supplies. Changed the save files so that saved games restart exactly where the game was left, rather than at the beginning of the next turn. This avoids any the loss of moves for units which come after the one active when the game was saved. The order of the units is changed, since the restore routine needs the units to be sorted. Added a recenter command, installed under '.'. This command places the current hex in the middle of the display. Added follow action mode, installed as a toggle command on ^F. In follow action mode, any changes to your view are shown to you. If the current display does not have the changed location, it will be put in the center of the display. Changed viewing routine so that previously unseen hexes with invisible units in them appear as empty rather than as unseen. Changed unit allocation and garbage collection so that the number of units can grow past the initial limit. Added an optional argument to the redraw command so that it will erase any views older than the argument. This is particularly useful after a briefing. Only non-moving units views will be erased. ^R defaults to erasing the views of moving units we haven't seen in 10 turns. ^L defaults to never erasing views unless an explicit argument is given. Changed briefings so that all old views of the side doing the briefing are erased first. (ie., briefings say where units are not as well as where they are.) Implemented a cheat mode under -C. This just lets the machine see everything. Captured units cancel all standing orders. Made wakeup 'w' wake up the unit being surveyed as well as the top unit. All moves or attacks use at least one point of movement. This prevents units who are in a transport on terrain they can not move on (movement value is -1 for these places) from having an infinite number of attacks. This also means that units entering a base will not gain an extra point of movement. # command has been added. This prints the distance between the current location and another point. T and ^T commands have been added to find units. These commands are identical, except that T prompts for a unit type, while ^T uses the type of the current unit. These commands find a unit of the given type. ^T repeated will give the next unit of the given type. This allows a player to look at all of the units of some type. Useful when some units are in transports (and possibly out of supplies). An argument to either command looks for the unit with that number. Changing product to the current product no longer resets the schedule. Write in savefile views using run length encoding. Occupants are sorted in decreasing order of their speed. Fixed survey mode for no-movers so that they can look at units that are occupants of other units. Added machine control of selected units (^A). The machine will make all decisions until the unit is woken by the users. Standing orders to use automatic control are added to rather than replacing previous standing orders. This allows the user to give standing orders to move to some location and then let the machine take over. Embark (e) has been changed so that is will take an argument. The unit will wait around that many turns trying to embark on some transport before waking up. This command can be given as a standing order, allowing much more complete automation of the movement of units. Provided an escape from robot mode. Typing escape while a robot in a multiplayer game will change a robot into a human. This will work either during a human player turn, or at the end of the turn if there are no human players in the game. Expanded the help pages so that the commands don't go off the bottom of the page. Added find dead unit (^D) which cycles through units that died in the last turn. Prevented the automatic return to move mode when the current unit is given an order. Added scrolling to the notice buffer. Click on the top or bottom to scroll the messages. -- Units on sentry can be woken up any time during the turn. Thus, a unit on sentry duty does not lose its move by doing sentry. It just prevents the player from being prompted about the unit unless it is woken up. A next product command has been added (as control-p). This determines what a unit will produce after it finishes producing its current unit. The side name is set by reading the resource xconq.SideName at startup. If this is not set, a random name is chosen. Period options added -------------------- Provided a flag to prohibit production by occupants who are not also makers. The default is that only makers can produce inside of other units. Provided a flag to indicate whether or not captured units can immediately be moved. Thus, all units will behave the same when captured, regardless of the ordering of the new and former owners in the turn sequence. Provided a flag to allow occupants to not consume supplies. Useful for planes on the ground. Standard period changes. ----------------------- (Troop transports have 3 hp.) (Submarines have only 2 ph.) Infantry and armor defend the cities and bases they are in. Aircraft carriers can hold 400 fuel instead of 200. The out-length of all units that are not transports have been set to -1, prohibiting them from giving up their fuel at bases except by order from a player. Gave capital cities a viewing range of 3 hexes instead of the one for all other units. Aircraft do not consume supplies while on the ground. Changed the out-length of all units other than fighters and infantry to 0. This allows them to transfer fuel automatically. The enter-time of ships has been set to 0, correcting for the loss of movement incurred when minimum movement of 1 point was incurred. Ships are allowed to enter and leave bases with no cost to movement. Bases repair units at a rate of one point every three turns. Infantry repair bases at one point per turn and towns or cities at one point per ten turns. *** 5.3ufl: all following changes by <thoth@manatee.cis.ufl.edu> - added new "j" command to jump unit A out of transport B into transport C (which contains B). - added new "t" command to throw a unit out the back of a transport. This is not heavily tested. - let "od" take arguments ("3od" is my favorite display format). - expanded map capabilities to handle 254 unit types and 255 sides (should have this code #ifdefed). - changed supply line algorithms to limit flow. - implemented arearadius. - fixed periods and changed some colors. - fixed bugs with hidden unit display (still tracking down some). - fixed bug that allowed units to move without cost when clicking in unknown territory that was incompatible with the unit type (the sail-across-ocean bug). outstanding BUGS: - looking for old "orders" bug that causes SEGVs for restored games. new BUGS: - monochrome seems to be busted, this is not a priority (unfortunately). *** 5.3: - Removed menu of maps and scenarios. - Removed bar graph display of unit hit points, fuel and ammo. - New view encoding allows up to 15 sides to play. - Units are stored in a circular doubly-linked list. - New routine for sorting units in order of geographic proximity. - The format of save files and map files is incompatible with xconq 5.1 - Units will try to automatically move around obstables in order to reach their destination. - New coast following routine - New unit orders: a - move to and attack the nearest enemy unit e - sleep until a transport is adjacent and then board it E - move to the nearest transport and board it F - put a transport to sleep until it is full - Allied sides update each others views at the end of every turn. *** 5.2 (There was never a 5.2, that I know of anyway.)