From: "Paul Janzen"
To: Boudewijn Waijers
Sent: donderdag 20 april 2000 5:09
Subject: Old hack source


A friend of mine pointed me at your nethack home page and suggested I
mention that I have some "predecessor" source you don't seem to.  At a
moment of extreme idleness a year ago, I located and emailed Don Kneller,
the author of most of the PC-HACK versions (1.0.3 to 3.6.0).  My goal was
to integrate his changes with the 1.0.3 BSD version of hack present in
OpenBSD (nethack is clearly not appropriate due to its license).  Anyhow,
Don did have an old source version around, which he sent me.
Unfortunately, it predates both 3.6.0 and 1.0.3G, the source for which
appears lost.  However, it includes quite a number of his fixes and
changes, usually neatly inserted into #ifdefs, and the 3.6 changelog
implies that only a couple more bugfixes not relevant to MS-DOS-specific
code were implemented since this version.  In Don's words,

> Go ahead and put the source up on a site.

The moment of extreme idleness passed, so I haven't committed his changes
to the OpenBSD tree yet, but in any case, you might want to add the source
to your predecessor list.  The code is up at
[censored - ALI]
but I'd prefer you archive it yourself.


Paul Janzen.