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For the ultimate in nerd heaven, I have actually gotten the crossfire server running on a tablet. Not even really a tablet... a Pandigital e-book reader . Why? Partially because I can, and partially, because it actually makes sense...

How:
I developed a method for running Debian Linux from a ...

I should have updated this earlier.

First...
What happens when you specific the server when launching the client ... Does the client connect to the server okay or does it still hang?

Yes the client hangs. I verified with gdb that the server was stuck at the pthread_mutex_lock() call in ...

I found the bug. It's not an endian issue. It's the use of an uninitialized mutex.

The initialization of ms2_info_mutex, in metaserer.c:metaserver2_init() is behind an #ifdef:
#ifdef HAVE_CURL_CURL_H
if (!has_init) {
memset(&local_info, 0, sizeof(LocalMeta2Info));
memset(&metaserver2_updateinfo ...

I've compiled the server (version 1.70) on an HPPA (PA-RISC) machine running Debian. When I try to connect a client to it, the connection fails silently. No error message on client or server. On the client the connection dialog disappears for about five seconds, then it comes back.

Network-wise, I ...

Well, at this point, further work I want to do (sound) is going to collide with patches I've already submitted - I really don't want to start submitting patches that depend on earlier unaccepted patches.

What is the process to get the patches I've submitted accepted and into SVN?

Both issues that were fixed were configuration problems, not code patches. The spells because DATADIR was set to something unixy, the level display because I missed setting -mms-bitfields in the makefile for common which meant the client thought some structures were differently sized than ...

Ok, a new binary is ready. A couple fixes:
Player->Spells now works. Be careful when you close the window - use the Close button, don't click the 'X' button on the title bar or else you won't be able to bring up the window again.
The skill levels now display correctly.
Download from [url]ftp ...

What would people say to a sound system that had the capacity for sound pushes? Basically the same thing for sounds that we have now for tiles.

This would give the ability for map-writers and scripters to script in sounds without having everyone have to download new clients to take advantage of it ...

regarding that "grey" squares that we previously discussed (on squares that u have already seen but dont see anymore), now that I have really played, I confirm my first impression :
thoses are very strange and quite ugly ---> less good than the gtk1 behaviour, that use some darkness on thoses ...

Proposal
I am proposing allowing all other wizard-casting skills access to sorcery spells. Sorcery then would essentially cease to exist as a seperate skill. The following is the reasoning and a little bit on how to implement.

Background & Reasoning
Sorcery is one casting area where it's very ...