Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup 0.1 beta 1 released
Erik Piper
called Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. Its foundation is the application of
improvements from Brent Ross's last alpha for Dungeon Crawl 4.1 on top
of Dungeon Crawl 4.0.0 b26. It also contains a liberal salting of
improvements from the Stone Soup development team itself.
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Stone Soup would not have been possible without the aid of Nat Lanza
and Peter Berger, who launched the Crawl-ref project, helped with
several technicalities of the Stone Soup project, and enabled us to
start issuing Mac OS binaries from Day 1. Stone Soup would have taken
much, much more time and frustration without an insightful Usenet post
by Martin Read.
I'd also like to thank Brent Ross for the many great ideas that can be
mined out of version 4.1, as well as for the ideas that went into the
several already-existing versions of Crawl where he did a plurality or
majority of the work. And of course I'd like to thank Linley, and can
only shed a tear that he'll likely never see these lines.
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The home of Stone Soup is not Darshan's usual patch page, which will
continue to hold the last released version of the Travel Patch. (It
follows from this that Patch development is frozen for them moment
except for critical fixes.) It is instead the Dungeon Crawl Reference
project. Crawl-ref, as it's called, is official 4.0.0 beta 26 + code &
makefile
cleanup by Nat Lanza + the travel patch. Stone Soup is a branch within
it.
The home page for Stone Soup development is:
http://www.sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=143991
The project page (stock Sourceforge at the moment) is:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/crawl-ref/
A Windows binary is available at:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/crawl-ref/stone_soup-0.1-win32.zip...
A Mac binary is available at:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/crawl-ref/stone_soup-0.1-osx.tbz2?...
A source tarball is available at:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/crawl-ref/stone_soup-0.1-src.tbz2?...
A source zip is available at:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/crawl-ref/stone_soup-0.1-src.zip?d...
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A full changelog is forthcoming at the Sourceforge site. A partial
changelog, as well as a richer release announcement, can be seen here:
http://tinyurl.com/me4mp [Google Groups thread]
Happy Crawling,
Erik Piper, for the Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup team