1.18: 2024-02-15

Bring the manual page fully up to date.

1.17: 2024-01-02

Saying Z’ZZZ at reservoir no longer causes the waters to part and crash.

1.16: 2023-04-15

Savefiles now have an identifying magic cookie at the front. Resume detects if a save has incompatible endianness.

1.15: 2023-04-03

Commands in magic-word sequence now interrupt it, as in original. Bug fix for bird not starting caged in endgame.

1.14: 2023-03-09

Added -a option for BBS door systems. -o reverts to the old message on some failed magic words. Typo fixes and documentation polishing.

1.13: 2023-02-28

Fixed slightly buggy emission of end-of-game messages on a win.

1.12: 2023-02-06

The bug and todo list has been cleared; project declared finished. Correctness has been systematically tested against the 1995 code. Typo fixes and documentation polishing.

1.11: 2022-04-14

Restore 100% test coverage. Use TAP reporting for tests.

1.10: 2022-04-06

Fixed a bug that manifested after two "fly rug" commands - third one fails. Fix some glitches in processing fee fie foe foo. Correct some object start states and reading-related glitches in the endgame.

1.9: 2020-08-27

Update the dungeon maker to avoid a deprecation due to security issues

1.8: 2019-04-19

Minor typo and capitalization glitches in user-visible text fixed & documented. Save format has changed.

1.7: 2018-12-03

Python 3 and OS X port fixes.

1.6: 2018-11-15

Split commands with verbless objects now pick up a preceding verb correctly.

1.5: 2018-11-11

Fix for a minor bug in inventory handling. Handle a bare numeric token on the command line a bit more gracefully.

1.4: 2017-08-07

Repair packaging error (omitted templates.) Minor improvements in odd grammar cases.

1.3: 2017-08-01

Split commands with objectless transitive verbs are handled correctly. Test suite has 100% code coverage.

1.2: 2017-07-11

Under oldstyle, new-school single-letter command synonyms are ignored. Switched from linenoise to editline for new-style line input. The -s option is no longer required to paste command input; it is removed.

1.1: 2017-06-29

There is a 'version' command. Include tests directory in generated tarball. Support command-line editing with arrow keys and Emacs keystrokes. Save format has changed.

1.0: 2017-06-05

Forward port of Crowther & Woods’s 430-point Adventure 2.5. Added -l option for logging. Game logs are now fully reproducible via the "seed" command. Added regression-test suite using seed, with coverage checking. Added command prompt; -o suppresses this. Otherwise no gameplay changes. Fixed bug that caused reservoir word not to be randomized. Makefile does parallel builds.