Revision history for Ruby gem ScottKit¶ ↑

1.6.0 (Wed Oct 25 00:19:29 BST 2017)¶ ↑

• Emit “Your light is growing dim” message every five turns when less than 25 left.

• When moving into a dark room, the description is no longer displayed before “It's too dark” message. Fixes #7.

• Use a saved, non-moving copy of t6.sck in regression-tests. Avoids pointless failures when I work on the tutorials.

• Do not omit scottkit.gemspec from git repo. Fixes #9.

• Add support for Travis CI. Fixes #12.

• Refactor main play loop to facilitate external driver code. Fixes #8.

• Move all documentation into new docs directory. Fixes #17.

• Rename data directory to games, and adjust test-suite etc. accordingly. Fixes #20.

1.5.0 (Fri Oct 20 00:38:57 BST 2017)¶ ↑

• Improvements to Nosferatu. This game is now as close as I can make it to the 1982 original, including bug-compatibility for mis-spellings and the behaviour of water.

• Minor improvements to tutorial map 4 and subsequent.

• Add '–teleport' command-line option, which generates teleport ROOM actions for every room. For use in game development and debugging. Fixes #4.

• Add '–superget' command-line option, which generates sg ITEM actions for every item. For use in game development and debugging. Fixes #5.

• The refill_lamp action now works correctly. It seems it never did work, but I didn't notice because my walkthroughs of Adventureland were too efficient to require lamp-refilling!

1.4.0 (Tue Oct 17 00:52:09 BST 2017)¶ ↑

• Fix v1.3.0 bug: hasty implementation of lint meant compilation would fail if no lint option was provided. Now works correctly again.

• Play mode no longer crashes on an empty line of input

• Add support for opcode 84 print_noun (without newline).

• Remove ScottKit version number from startup message in play mode, as it messes up regression tests. It's in the usage message now.

• New file, bin/md5ruby: needed for regenerating regresssion expectations, since the md5 program on MacOS produces different results from Ruby's MD5 digest when given non-ASCII input. Use this for regenerating data/test/adams/*.md5

• The reimplementation of Nosferatu is now complete in that it is possible to play the game through to a successful completion. However, it's not ready for release, as many incorrect actions still need to be handled gracefully.

1.3.0 (Mon Oct 16 20:27:43 BST 2017)¶ ↑

• Support --lint (-L) command-line option. Fixes #1. Argument is a string of characters:

• e – check for rooms with no exits (traps)

• E – check for rooms with only one exit (dead ends)

1.2.0 (Mon Oct 16 15:11:44 BST 2017)¶ ↑

• Create initial tutorial, exactly equivalent to that of Games::ScottAdams.

• Use the special name _ for the unused variable representing the redundant dark-flag part of save-files. This avoids an unused-variable warning when running under certain older versions of Ruby.

• Top-level README links to the tutorial, reference manual and sequence of blog-posts.

• Add new game, {data/nosferatu}, ported from the Games::ScottAdams reimplementation of the 1982 VIC-20 BASIC game. This is incomplete.

• Escape sequences for newline (\n) and tab (\t) are interpreted in printed strings.

• Add discussion of the print action to the reference guide.

1.1.0 (Thu Oct 12 21:59:28 BST 2017)¶ ↑

• Documentation fix: correctly name the present condition (was accessible).

• Documentation fix: correctly name twelve actions. (Thanks to Brian Jones for spotting the first of these.)

  • moveto -> goto

  • print_noun_nl -> println_noun

  • nl -> println

  • clear_screen -> clear

  • set_0 -> set_flag0

  • clear_0 -> clear_flag0

  • decrease_counter -> dec_counter

  • add_counter _number_ -> add_to_counter number

  • subtract_counter -> subtract_from_counter`

  • swap_loc_default -> swap_room

  • swap_loc -> swap_specific_room`

  • special -> draw`

1.0.0 (Wed Oct 11 21:45:27 BST 2017)¶ ↑

• Finish translating reference guide from POD to MarkDown.

• Update reference guide to describe ScottKit format rather then Games::ScottAdams format.

• Fix handling of darkness when playing games.

• Support unquoted “carried” and “at” in conditions

0.4.0 (Mon Mar 1 22:20:09 GMT 2010)¶ ↑

• Move towards using YARD for documentation instead of Rdoc. This includes changes to things like the format of the Changes file. Far from perfect so far: for example, plain-text documentation like doc/Definition gets mangled.

0.3.0 (February 28, 2010)¶ ↑

• Move ScottKit out of its sub-siubdirectory in the 9Gb mike git module into its own git module.

• Move repository hosting to github.

• Arrange for formatted documentation to appear at rdoc.info/projects/MikeTaylor/scottkit

0.2.0 (February 28, 2010)¶ ↑

• Add -z option to sleep after finishing - useful when running in a DOS Shell under Windows, so that error messages can be seen.

• Add facility to load a game while playing, using #load

0.1.0 (February 28, 2010)¶ ↑

• Add -p option to compile and play a game from source.

0.0.0 (February 28, 2010)¶ ↑

• Initial release.

Still to do¶ ↑

• The goto action result should automatically describe the new room.

• Tweak compiler to break actions when they need too many arguments as well as when they need too many instructions.

• Ensure that the right files are built by YARD

• Maybe modify to run against GLK using the Glkx driver

• File inclusion