DOS ain't dead

Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup 0.6.0 (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 02.04.2010, 21:07

BAD NEWS!

Well, DOS support in Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup is officially dead. The developers don't care about it anymore at all, and apparently they can't be bothered to try building or even do simple fixes. (Note that I've never been part of the development team and don't grok C++, but they knew I was heavily interested in the DOS port.)

In particular, 0.5.2 had a bug where it didn't cost mana for spells (or whatever, I always play Minotaur Berserker for Trog, who forbids magic).

GOOD NEWS!

I did (with a few very minor tweaks) get 0.6.0 to compile with DJGPP 2.04 (G++ 4.2.3), and it seems to work (80x50 only). Not sure if they will host this build, but I've already informed them in IRC at ##crawl-dev (Freenode.net). E-mail me if you want the .EXE (also needs data files from Win32 console version).

Oh well, another one bites the dust (for no good reason).

http://crawl.develz.org (new home)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/crawl-ref/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/crawl-ref/files/Stone%20Soup/0.6.0/0.6.0.txt/view
http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/stone-soup-0-6-0-heizolruckstosabdampfung

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Complete thread:

• Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup 0.5.2 - Rugxulo, 19.10.2009, 11:43 (Announce)
  • Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup 0.6.0 - Rugxulo, 02.04.2010, 21:07
    • Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup 0.6.0 - Rugxulo, 05.04.2010, 21:39