Spiralling out of Control

A weekend, you say. Good chance to get some programming done, you say. And you'd be right, after a fashion.

So the plan was to copy AngbandBase files over to FA, make such changes as were warranted to get it compiling, then make the other (minor) changes I was planning for 1.2. And it looked fine at the outset. Some things were always going to have to change - option handling, for example. But then there was the question of whether to make only minimal changes to command handling. Answer: no.

That was OK, and the minimal changes took over again - until we reached spellcasting. I started just hacking the spell menus to get them to work, but then went deeper into how V has modified the whole casting system. The results speak for themselves. There are half-finished files all over, V files copied over unaltered, headers hacked enough so they don't conflict with the few files that do compile, and still plenty of unanswered questions about what will end up included and what will be rejected.

And that ignores the planning thread I recently started in order to tie up a few loose ends, and which now seems to be hurtling pell-mell toward a complete rewrite of wilderness and the possible elimination of towns and/or shops.

One hour of weekend left. What could possibly go wrong...