Note: I try to log stuff step by step.. If anything, Ill at least know what I spent all day doing.. ;> Ill also try to log which things were requested, and by who first.. *** 4.06 * sorry i left this in public beta for so long.. I wanted to make sure lady had no problems.. * fixed the give the hag a gem bug.. *** NEW STUFF IN 4.05 pb (March 15, 2000)*** * fixed the jenny bug (only in 4.02).. * fixed a bug with the registration routines (only in 4.02).. *** Completely rewrote Lordcfg! * Lord will now work with comports 10 and higher (max 255) IF you have a fossil and your bbs software supports it. * Added one jennie code, and took one out.. and no, im not telling! * optimized code: - main menu - the trainer - jennie codes - dark cloak tavern - abdul's armor - the healers - king arthur's weapons - the bank Which means if you notice anything funny in these sections, let me know. Otherwise, everything else should work exactly the way it used to, since Ive not touched it.. * Up until this version, you could ALT-C (forced chat) several times, which would force you to ESC out of each of them. Not anymore.. Only one chat allowed now.. * some cosmetic work.. new menu screens and whatnot.. * new option: enable or disable the talkative NPCs in the inn (req. G. Pope) * mail now has the date written on it * added player descriptions (req by lots of people) .. look for the old man in the DCT.. * theres a use for fairy lore now - and no, im not telling. You'll figure it out soon enough. * added resurrection limit (req from Gameport's message board) * if you were on the entrance menu, and hit 'Q', it wouldnt exit until you hit enter.. fixed.. * Now, if you "twit" someone, Lord will knock them out of the game, AND add their name to LOCKOUT.DAT * In turn, I added ALT-K .. "Kill User".. This just 'hangup' on the user.. * Divorcing someone now drops charm 50% instead of to 50.. This goes for Violet and the Bard as well.. * Which added a new mail code: `* .. `? marries that player to `* will divorce them and take away 50% of charm * You can no longer divorce someone and then marry on the same day. This goes for Violet and the Bard too.. (req G. Pope) * speaking of mail codes, the `V code has been killed. did the same thing as `E.. * Changed the "play blackjack game" key from 'A' to 'G'.. * If you have a horse, you wont stumble onto the DCT.. (Req. M. Lacey) * You can no longer marry both Violet AND Seth.. (sorry George ) * lots of other little things that were potential bugs New stuff within Lady - quite a bit hasnt been logged.. soo.. commands * added @choice * added @case.. itll handle "response" (from @choice) and &N vars.. - added ID numbers to case statements. will now safely run as many nested case's as you like :) * added the prompts command * added the promptn command * added math functions +, -, *, / and ! * @displayfile was already there. now itll do regular .ans files, and sansi style databases.. * added @label and @goto * added @set * took some work, but got if/then/else's for &B's, &N's and &P's.. - added nested if/thens.. you can haveup to 256 of them.. * added @runsub vars/misc * added 38 player variables! * added &F and &L * added &time * added the string vars &S1 through &S40 * added the number vars &N1 through &N40 * added the boolean vars &B1 through &B40 * added `l * added "smart" comments.. any text after a ; will be ignored * added &nick * added &ver * added `k * added &rnd ***Fixed during public beta testing (March 16, 2000 +)*** * The Alt-I info screen.. since, oh, 3.55 the box around it hasnt fit the words.. Fixed. * Alt-C ("chat with a higher being") no longer says "No.", and it wont work for local. * lordcfg: moving from side to side on the main menu remembered what item you were on. I made this default to the first item. * Forgot to change the copyright info in lordcfg.. oops. ** May 14th * damnit. my little beta.bat file that creates the lordbeta.zip for me choked and killed my whatsnew file.. lesse if i can remember what all ive done. * the fairy garden doesnt exit to the main menu * forgot to trim spaces off of a name after editing it in lordcfg. fixed. * the fairy garden doesnt allow for funny ` codes anymore. just colors. * some of the mail codes werent working (namely `e and `v) .. fixed. * there were quite a few other things, but i cant rememebr them all :(