From keni@oasys.dt.navy.mil Wed Jul 21 18:30:42 1993 Received: from oasys.dt.navy.mil by toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (4.1/UCD.CS.2.3) id AA29204; Wed, 21 Jul 93 18:30:40 PDT Received: by oasys.dt.navy.mil (5.61/oasys.dt.navy.mil) id AA13072; Wed, 21 Jul 93 21:30:39 EDT Date: Wed, 21 Jul 93 21:30:39 EDT Message-Id: <9307220130.AA13072@oasys.dt.navy.mil> From: Kenneth Lorber To: announce@cs.ucdavis.edu Subject: NetHack 3.1.3 official binaries available Cc: keni@oasys.dt.navy.mil Status: RO (Here we go again. I think I've got a clean announcement this time but feel free to add anything that's missing. Thanks for your help. keni) TITLE Amiga NetHack 3.1.3 VERSION Amiga NetHack 3.1.3 is the third patchlevel of NetHack 3.1. Saved games and bones files from previous versions (including previous patch levels of 3.1) will NOT work with this release. AUTHOR NetHack is created by the NetHack Development Team and ported to the Amiga by the Amiga NetHack Team. Please report bugs, problems, and suggestions to nethack-bugs@linc.cis.upenn.edu. Please note that you are using the Amiga version. DESCRIPTION NetHack 3.1 is a new generation of the dungeon exploration game NetHack. It is a distant descendent of Hack, and a direct descendent of NetHack 3.0. It is the product of two years of very intensive effort by the NetHack Development Team and its porting sub-teams. Many parts of 3.0 were rewritten for NetHack 3.1, and many new features were added. We dedicate the game to the many players of 3.0, with special note of those who communicated with us and contributed their ideas to the development of this new version. NEW FEATURES NetHack 3.1.3 is primarily a bug-fix update. Other improvements are left for you to discover. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS NetHack runs on any Amiga with at least 2 meg of RAM and AmigaDOS 1.3 or 2.04 (or later). NetHack will run from floppy but a hard disk is strongly recommended - NetHack requires approximately 3 meg of hard disk space. The official binaries are packed with the lz archiver, version 1.92. FTP INFORMATION The official binaries are available in two .lzh files on aminet. The files are NH31P3-1.lzh and NH31P3-2.lzh. (They have been uploaded to the new directory on ftp.wustl.edu; I expect they will be moved to game/role.) In addition, the same files are available on linc.cis.upenn.edu (please limit transfers from linc to non-business hours, East Coast USA time). The files on linc are in pub/NH3.1/binaries/amiga. Full source code for all versions of NetHack (Amiga, Unix, MS-DOS, Macintosh, OS/2, VMS, NT, Atari) is available in pub/NH3.1/source. The official binaries for Amiga NetHack come in two .lzh files. Extract the installation instructions from the first archive (probably called NH31P3-1.lzh) with the following command: lz x NH31P3-1.lzh NetHack/ReadMe and follow the directions. Note that the ReadMe file will be in a NetHack subdirectory. We have been informed that the default stack is not big enough to unpack the archives with some archivers - if you have trouble unpacking the archives try increasing your stack to 40000. For problems with the archives contact keni@oasys.dt.navy.mil or use the central address nethack-bugs@linc.cis.upenn.edu. Please mention that you are using the official Amiga binaries for 3.1.3. DISTRIBUTABILITY NetHack is freely-redistributable copyrighted code - please see the license for details. -- All the world is BSD and all the SYSV merely bootstrap loaders. keni@oasys.dt.navy.mil (301)227-1428