Add some paranoia.

can go into it.
Add support for (some) extended keys with the local console.

field.

Wow.

can certainly highlight bugs quickly...

@DO FRONTPAD is broken... break it.
@READSPECIAL prints the selected character.

Close TIME.DAT after opening it.
If the variable arg to @DO .. IS, @DO .. ADD, and @IF ... IS is a string,
do not expand bare numeric variables (like X and Y).

The js_finalize_queue() is eventually called when garbage is collected and
js_finalize_queue() calls msgQueueDetach(), so bg-load()s did not "leak"
semaphores and this "fix" actually introduced a problem where the queue was
detached too many times, leaving the ref count 0 while there was actually
a lingering reference (in the parent), leading to a crash as reported by echto
(thanks, echto!).

Random offset can be a variable.
Now that `* is the node number use `r4`^
If game.dat doesn't exist or is zero bytes, create it.
In local mode, load FONTS/LORD2.FNT which just happens to be the same format
conio supports.  SyncTERM users should get this font for free.

lord2.js can now bootstrap Complete New World.

oldest first.  While this will bloat the trader.dat, it will keep from
reusing records too quickly unless the game really is full.

Set lastsave to the current minute number.  This may be used for update.tmp
or something?

Created sysop documentation (.txt file)

If you were a lucky "early adopter" and had rev 1.7 running on your BBS

you probably noticed the following important changes introduced in rev 1.8:
* exec/minesweeper.js was moved to xtrn/minesweeper/minesweeper.js
* text/minesweeper.hlp was moved to xtrn/minesweeper/minesweeper.hlp

* data/minesweeper.json was moved to xtrn/minesweeper/winners.jsonl



If you already had game winners and want to retain them in the list, copy
or rename the data/minesweeper.jsonl to xtrn/minesweeper/winners.jsonl.
If you don't care, the game will run fine and new winners will be added to
the new/correct filename.

All that's left is: lordrank rank whoison overheadmap chooseplayer

the obvious things there as well as train to a higher level.

This also uses UPPERCASE for filenames for the nonce since it allows A/B
testing with the last released version of LORD 2.

with a pipe (|) symbol, rather than a '-'. This accomplishes 2 things:
- code:args can be used again with format-modifiers as pipe (|) is an illegal
  filename char in all supported OSes.
- multiple format modifers can be specified for some may (now) be combined.

* New format modifier 'T' (for thousands separated), adds separator (,) between
  thousands in numeric expanded @-codes. May be combined with other format
  modifiers when using the pipe-syntax (not the dash).

(unsigned-long to ASCII with commas) in rev 1.68 (addressing warnings).
A size_t (i) can't go negative. Duh.

A little prettier.

If the script crashes with an unhandled exception, posts a message to me
in syncdata with the details, automatically.
Use lower intensity colors for most of the indicators.
When a cell with a digit is selected, highlight the surrounding cells with
high-intensity colors (very helpful for the game play!).
Guarantee that the first cell uncovered won't be a mine (thanks, Nelgin!)
Winner syncdata messages now include an MD5 sum so it's not so trivial for
sysops to edit their messages and "cheat" the scoring/ranking parameters.
Strip control codes (including Ctrl-A sequences) from syncdata msgs before
trying to JSON.parse() them, thanks Nelgin!
Allow the 'F' key to start the game.
Start with the selected cell being the center of the board.
The '5' key (middle of numpad) will move to center of board.
Don't abort game on Ctrl-C press.
When [N]ew Game is selected a game is in progress, prompt "New Game (Y/N)"?
When [Q]uit Game is selected a game is in progress, prompt user.
Added support for "nocls" cmdline option.
Added support for number of winners to be specified on cmdline when the
"winners" cmd is used.
Thanks to Nelgin for many of his suggestions and test results.
Need more testers and feedback!

This was the last major piece for basic game functionality.  Next up is the
multi-player features like mail, chat, online battles, then it's down to
finishing up all the keywords.

*nix systems).

defined these variable names and if they load('sbbsdefs.js'), which load()'s
this file, then those scripts fail with errors like:
!JavaScript  .../key_defs.js line 7: TypeError: redeclaration of var KEY_ESC

Makes fast movement actually work.

Add support for 'B' and 'F' hotkeys.

The level is recomputed / displayed based on the target number of cells for the
level, so depending on the terminal size, a level 5 game board could actually
be a level 4.8 (for example).
You'll need a big terminal to get the maximum difficulty level for levels 3+.
The revision of the game used is now stored/shared and listed in the winners
rankings.
Passing a cmd-line argument of "winners" will just show the top winners/ranking
and exit (e.g. used as logon event or maybe clean-up event).
Timelimit is now imposed (player loses if clock runs out).
New modopts.ini [minesweeper] settings:
timelimit (in minutes), default: 60
winners (top ranked winners to show), default: 20
An exploded mine is shown as '*' (red, blinking)
Tighter game boards are now used when needed for large boards / smaller
terminals.
Better cursor management.
Better PETSCII compatibilty (include 40 and 80 cols)
Display elapsed time when game is won.
Deduct the number of flags from "Mines:" value shown.
Shown the computed difficulty level where the "Flags" value used to be.
Better colors (thanks Emma!)
Game clock doesn't starting counting down until the first cell is revealed.
Requires update load/key_defs.js and sbbsdefs.js files.

Just a couple things in here since we don't care about registration.