User:PaulBlay

I'm currently working on XAngband, TinyAngband and now Angband/65. I also understand Japanese, so if you need anything translated let me know.

Angband/65 progress track:

• Apr 23, 2009 : Today I've been mostly considering minor compiler warnings. In particular there are still almost 500 warnings (Warning level 4 now) about type conversions that may cause data loss. I've added a macro that in a debug build will check bounds on some of them. Lots more to do. [EDIT] Now down to 438 warnings, time to stop for the day.
• Apr 24, 2009 : 72 open tickets, 49 closed. Today I closed off a few tickets, ... added more than I closed. Had a bit of a scare with VC++, turned out to be some carelessness with a renamed file (original version left in project as well ...).
• Apr 25, 2009 : 71 open tickets, 55 closed. I suppose this counts as progress. I am hopeful that I will be on schedule for the alpha1 release - but there isn't going to be much time to spare.
• Apr 26, 2009 : 77 open tickets, 58 closed. Ever felt you're going backwards? ;-) Did some fairly drastic hacking out of obsolete (from my perspective) code and have just started putting back the replacements. It's going to be a long job.
• Apr 27, 2009 : 84 open tickets, 58 closed. OK, that doesn't look like much progress from yesterday but I'm half way through a major update. I might finally have the spell system working tomorrow! (Maybe).
• Apr 28, 2009 : That was overly optimistic. Maybe tomorrow, this time?
• Apr 29, 2009 : 82 open tickets, 64 closed. Beginning to doubt that I'll ever get the /64 spell system implemented. :-/
• May 2, 2009 : Lost a couple of days downloading, installing, and getting (slightly) used to Linux. At least I'll be able to check that Angband/65 can be compiled and run in Linux now.
• May 4, 2009 : Made a bit of progress. However I suspect that I will not make the alpha 1 release date. :-/
• May 5, 2009 : Slowly getting the spell system sorted out. (Slowed down a bit by a cold at the moment). Should be able to cross a few tickets off the list tomorrow.
• May 6, 2009 : 81 open tickets, 70 closed. At this rate I may just make the deadline, but there aren't any easy tickets left.
• May 8, 2009 : 86 open tickets, 75 closed. Found some nasty bugs. :-( Fixed one not-so-nasty bug.
• May 10, 2009 : 78 open tickets, 82 closed. Who-hoo! Now more closed tickets than open. ;-) As you can see I've done a bit of tidying up of old tickets that could just be closed off as well as implemented some genuine features (such as support for tactic and movement types).
• May 11, 2009 : Vanilla Angband 1379 brought with it a nasty bug to Angband/65 that (apparently) only shows up in certain circumstances (but I'm not sure which). In the end I decided to reverse the 'bugfix' 1379. Also I took a break from Angband/65 and submitted an artifact suggestion to Vanilla Angband. See The Large Metal Shield of the Sun. Hope it gets in.

As always anybody interested in assisting, would you please contact me. There is plenty of work for people of all levels of experience.