7DOF Humour Files
21/03/99 Nalal tried to add Linkdead code (failed) 27/03/99 Nalal started installing linkdead code (again) 29/03/99 Nalal finished installing linkdead code (phew) 30/03/99 Nalal fixed his shody (homegrown) linkdead code. 02/04/99 Nalal had an awful thought about his linkdead code! 02/04/99 Nalal said "phew" 'cos he didn't know how to fix it if what he thought was wrong was actually wrong, but it wasn't, it was right, so ... panic over. 08/04/99 Nalal fixed the big bad processor eating bug in his (still dodgy) linkdead code... WooHoo!!!! 24/04/99 Nalal fixed a bug in linkdead whereby if someone cut connection before they logged in and then the socket which was being help open for them was manually killed the next person to try and connect would be refused (Don't even ask how we found that one... Zander :) 28/04/99 Nalal fixed the bug, guess what was the cause... Yep, you got it... Nalal's shody, bodged linkdead code. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 31/03/99 Nalal started NFIS 01/04/99 Nalal finished NFIS (although he started it the month before the whole process only took around an hour :) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 01/04/99 Nalal read this history file and wondered where his life went. 01/04/99 Nalal went out and got drunk with Major. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 03/04/99 Nalal made painting a quest (wow that was hard, approximately 7 seconds worth of code, in fact it took longer to write this entry in the history file.) <--- Note full stop inside the brackets, someday the spelling of "armor" will also be changed. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 05/04/99 Nalal fixed the help system by adding random /*'s until the stupid thing worked. 08/04/99 Nalal write another dodgy fix to the help system, everyone notice the increased delay when typing help ;) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 07/04/99 Nalal finished NPGS v1.9B (those of you who were paying attention will notice that NPGS never got past 0.95B. All the code that Nalal has ever written still has internal Beta numbers [although on the outside is says something like v1.3] even the stuff he managed to get money for writing is still mostly beta!) (Yes, Nalal is a part-time, freelance programmer and he's wrote this game for you at no cost, what a guy!) {Nalal tends to ramble when he has had no sleep... Goodnight} 17/04/99 Nalal changed external name of NPGS to NARS. (I'll get round to all the internal names sometime :) 17/04/99 Nalal added some special cases to NPGS, errr, NARS :) 28/11/00 Nalal renamed NDIS and NARS to DIS and ARS. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20/04/99 Nalal fixed the email command, ahhh, string manipulation, my favorite. :) If you are interested... for(i=1;i<strlen(strbuf)&&strbuf[i]!=' ';i++); for(j=i;j<strlen(strbuf);j++)addy[j-i-1]=strbuf[j]; for(j=strlen(strbuf);j<80;j++)addy[j-i-1]='\0'; Do I win the obfuscated C contest???? :) I know there is probably a function which does this but I can write it faster than I can wade through man pages :) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20/04/99 Nalal re-wrote the internal Daemon loading screen. (As if you care, only about 2 people are ever going to see it) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20/04/99 Major (Yes, he does things sometimes!) updated policy and info files and in the process overwrote this file. 21/04/99 Nalal found out what Major had done. 21/04/99 Mxyzptlk made a comment about Major (censored.) 21/04/99 Nalal found a backup history file. 21/04/99 Nalal decided that Major causes more work, hassle and admin than he actually does. :) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 25/04/99 Nalal changed the ultimate level from 200001 points to 200000 points since it seemed to annoy Mxyzptlk as he has brought it up/bugged it several times :) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 28/04/99 Nalal crashed the mud (multiple times) by talking to mobiles. (He was talking to mobiles 'cos they make more sense than the rest of the powers team put together :) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 28/04/99 Nalal found out that auto time out crashes the mud. 28/04/99 Nalal disabled auto time out (ahhh, programming in the real world - don't fix the problem, circumvent it) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 25/05/99 Nalal gave MasterWizards and Wizards slightly different privelages and while he was at it he had to fix the pflag system since it never really worked right in the first place. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 03/06/99 Nalal fixed the evil bug which made the mud crash every 47 minutes less 13 seconds, seems to have been a compiler problem more than anything else. Still every time Nalal tried something he had to wait for 47 minutes. That is why all the admin things have been done over the past few days, blessing in disguise really. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18/06/99 Nalal ran the help file through ispell. (Someone can't spell suddenly) 23/06/99 Nalal downloaded AberMUD2 and updated the credits file accordingly and also had fun reading through some of the original cutting edge code which hasn't changed much since 1988. Nalal also found out that the misspelling of suddenly had been around since AberMUD2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 16/11/99 Nalal went all ANSI standard and changed the bulletin boards, pager, the function which sends data, the main mud subroutine and the zone structure to make them more compliant. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 29/08/00 Marduke finished the newbie zone. 03/09/00 Nalal finally got the newbie zone to compile (he was trying to be clever with macros and just wasted a whole heap of time) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 28/12/00 Nalal removed the last of the \r control codes. 11/01/01 Nalal put back in some \r's to fix problems with some clients. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10/04/01 Swineherd wrote the csaw action and removed the smirk action. 11/04/01 Nalal put the smirk action back in... *smirk* 14/04/01 Swineherd added the whap, points, woo, coax, jeer, worry, aie and rar actions, and removed smirk again. *cackle* 17/04/01 Nalal sorted out smirk for good.