There is a new command line option, "-more". What this option
does is reduce the number of pauses in the game during combat and
during tunneling by removing the "-more-" prompt at the end of
messages. This option has the potential to reduce your
situational awareness. You could, for example, fight a monster
for a long time with a shovel instead of a holy avenger and not
realize it until you are dead. You could also potentially walk
around and not realize that spells are being cast upon your
character from some off-screen enemy.
With all of the new options that I have added, I set up a batch
file called PLAY.BAT so that I can play with my favorite options:
umoria -h -v177 -rp -d3000 -more
This turns off haggling, uses the 177 character for mineral veins,
lets (R) armor give resistance against poison gas, pauses for 3000
milliseconds (actually much less than that on my 800Mhz Athlon
system) in between projectile movements, and reduces the number of
instances where the game pauses to display "-more-" and waits for
user input.
-Ed L, June 1, 2003
In this latest release, wielded flame tongue weapons light up the
area like a brass lantern that never runs out of fuel. A flame
tongue weapon that gives off no light is like a light sabre that
gives off no light in the Jedi Knight II game. This adds a new
factor to consider when the time comes to decide whether or not to
drop a flame tongue weapon in order to free up an inventory slot.
This new feature also makes it possible to identify flame tongue
weapons without using a scroll of identify by wielding the weapon
in the dark.
Also, the, "You failed to get the spell off!" message is now
displayed in red so that you can spot a failure in a magic cast
with a glance.
-Ed Lee, February 23, 2003
Taking 0 damage from a poison gas attack seems to cause a panic
save. The poison_gas() routine now ends immediately when the
player takes no damage from a poison gas attack.
-Ed Lee, September 8, 2002
I added a new command line option, -v, for specifying the magma
and quartz vein decimal character code. Example:
umoria -v176
Valid character codes are numbers from 0 to 255, but only the
values from 1 to 31 and 128 to 255 or 37 (the code for "%") would
really make sense since most of the other characters are already
used for something else or are not visible.
The see_wall() function now recognizes whatever is defined as the
vein character with the -v option. This change makes the run code
treat whatever is defined as the vein character as a regular wall.
The vein character symbol is back to '%' by default. This can be
modified with the -v option described above.
-Ed Lee, September 6, 2002
This latest version adds color to the menus, automates the display
of the menus, adds color to some messages and to the display of
your statistics to enhance your situational awareness. This
version also adds a new command line option,
-rp
for resisting poison gas if you effectively have R resistance
through any combination of permanent or temporary resistance.
My shortcut for playing the game on my 800Mhz Athlon system has a
line in its properties similar to:
umoria.exe -h -rp -d3000
for playing without haggling, playing with poison resistance, with
a delay of less than 3000 milliseconds between the display of bolt
/ ball / breath weapons. The -d option now also controls the
delay for displaying thrown items and the display of the
earthquake spell or prayer.
A detailed list of changes is recorded in the CHANGES file in the
source directory.
-Ed Lee, September 6, 2002
Justin Martin Anderson's original code for saving color
information in the COLOR.SAV file is a potential source of
instability when the COLOR.SAV file already exists for one Moria
save file and a different Moria save file with a different number
of inventory items gets played. Additionally, storing the
player's inventory item colors in the COLOR.SAV file is
unnecessary since the color information is stored in the
object_list[] array and an index to the corresponding item in the
object_list[] is stored with each inventory item. The items with
random colors get their colors regenerated from the random number
seed which is stored in the Moria save file (e.g. MORIA.SAV). So,
I have cleaned up the SAVE.C file, eliminating the use of the
COLOR.SAV file.
Locations of Files:
http://www.chinet.com/~edlee/mor552c.zip Executable, documentation, etc.
http://www.chinet.com/~edlee/mor552cs.zip Source code
http://www.chinet.com/~edlee/mor552cx.zip Just the executable program
-Ed Lee, August 26, 2002
New command line options for Umoria v5.5.2 Turbo C Color:
-h
No haggling. This option deactivates haggling entirely.
Haggling in the stores is amusing when you first encounter
it, but it can become tiresome after a while. Most of the
fun is in the dungeon.
-m
Monochrome. This option deactivates the display of colors
other than the default monochrome colors.
-dtime
Delay. The amount of time in milliseconds to delay after
displaying a bolt/ball/breath so that you can actually see
the bolt/ball/breath weapons in action on fast computers.
This option lets you get that 300 baud tty feel for the
bolt/ball/breath weapons without slowing down the rest of the
display. This option also lets you see the items that a
creature drops before the items are destroyed by a
frostball/lightning ball/acid ball/fireball. The time value
can be from 0 to 65535. The timing is most accurate on slow
computers. For fast computers, you may have to use a higher
time value. For example, on my 800Mhz Athlon computer, I
have a shortcut icon on the Windows 98 desktop that I use to
play Moria. The shortcut contains a line similar to:
c:\moria\umoria.exe -d3000
which would indicate a delay of 3000 milliseconds, or 3
seconds, between each bolt or breath display, but the actual
delay seems to be much less than that, around 300
milliseconds. For my HP 200LX, I use
c:\moria\umoria.exe -m -d75
There should be no space in between the -d and the time
value. The default delay time is zero.
When I was trying to test the -d option to calibrate it for
stinking cloud on my HP 200LX, I was wondering why the ball
did not appear. It turned out that I was firing at a wall
that was too far away. The maximum range of any weapon is 18
spaces.
These options can be in either upper case or lower case.
Locations of Files:
http://www.chinet.com/~edlee/mor552c.zip Executable, documentation, etc.
http://www.chinet.com/~edlee/mor552cs.zip Source code
http://www.chinet.com/~edlee/mor552cx.zip Just the executable program
The uncompressed MSDOS executable program size is 439,079 bytes. It has
been compressed with PKLITE down to 165,223 bytes.
-Ed Lee, August 23, 2002