UNNOFICIAL Zen's EnvyMud patch Release 0.84! (HomeCooked Envy2.2)
Monday, 7th July 1997

Zen             vasc@camoes.rnl.ist.utl.pt


=== General info (version 0.83)

USE THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK! (Can't find bugs though)

The code is very stable and i think that a regular character can't crash the
mud. I have squashed all the bugs i could find and so this should be mostly
bug free. The reason i made this new release so soon was because Christopher
Smith made a new release of OLC for Envy20 one day after i released the previous
version... So i'm releasing this one with his changes (all of them i think) and
since i hate to release a new version only with bug fixes i bashed a couple of
new features as well. Major changes include:

	Class table now is loaded from a file
	Socials table now is loaded from a file

This makes new socials/classes easier to add. No more need to change all the
skills/spells in const.c when you want to add a new class...

Also i didn't say it in the last release, but the Beastly Fido, Executioner and
the Beggars in Poor Alley have MobPrograms so you can check these out.

Also check the docs/info in the MobProg2.1/ and OLC11/ directories


=== New changes... (version 0.84) :-)

Hello there! Erm... I said i wouldn't make a new release so soon eh? Well i
noticed the version of alias code i was using in 0.83 used bzero and this isn't
standard in some platforms... Oooops! :-( So i am back to the nice old Rom2.4b4
version of the code which is cleaner and doesn't use bzero... Updated one or
two docs but that's it i think. Sheeesh... It's official. I made my first bug
fix version just one day after the previous one! This isn't a serious bug but
people might bother me if they use AIX i think. Since i use Linux i didn't
notice it until the day after i uploaded to ftp.game.org. Don't bother too much
with the release date above it's just for reference.


=== Future Plans

HomeCooked contains some structure improvements over Envy 2.2.  Some ideas
which have been incorporated were suggested by MUD/RPG games-playing and fellow
mud addicts/implementors.
A few of these ideas have been created using the 'Reverse Engineering' method.

Do not expect a new release so soon. This was highly unusual. I expect to have
the next release made in September, and this will have MAJOR changes i think.
Probably... But don't hold your breath :-) I have to study you know...

Enjoy!


- Zen