Hi everybody!
I'm making Nethack version 0.6 available for testing. If there are no disastrous new problems introduced by my new code I'll release it to the archive site in a couple days. Here's what's new:
The "Auto-Quiver" has been enabled so when you run out of one
type of ammunition it will automatically pick another one
Ammunition menu command renamed to Quiver and moved to Wear/Wield menu
Message changed on "Fire" command if weapon is appropriate (not "Throw")
Box looting streamlined a little bit
"List Skills" renamed to "List/Enhance Skills"
Bug: Throwing stuff when inventory almost empty
Bug: Tile replication in farlook mode
Bug: Behavior when leaving multi-select menu on a non-selected item
Loot added to Action menu, does not appear in context menu next to creatures
Ride removed from context menu, added to Action menu
During character creation, Y now goes back to previous page
During character creation, START moves to next page
Choice of "Random" is now remembered for character selection
Now possible to engrave with fingers
Holding down L while moving through menus or text moves by pages
Options added to Main menu
Option: Crash Recovery now optional, saves a little less data if turned off
Option: Fast Direction Select option added (not selected by default)
Option: Keyboard layout ABCDEF or QWERTY
Option: Auto-pickup gold (selected by default)
Character name length increased to 12 characters
Here's what I intend for the future:
Version 0.7 will be a release to clean up all the remaining bugs and gameplay issues that I know about. I'm not intending for there to be new features in 0.7. I will start organizing the list of the remaining issues once version 0.6 is released.
Version 0.8 will focus primarily on building a way for controls to be customized for particular styles of play or particular character classes. This will be a significant amount of work, so I want to do a 0.7 first that concentrates on more "nuts and bolts" issues, even if they are minor.
Thanks as always for your testing!
Version 0.6 is available here:
http://gp2xgamer.com/nethack06.zip