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-Versions up to 1.2.16 and between 1.2.23 and 1.3.2 are approximate.
-Information on changes may not be exact or complete.
-
-1.6.2 News bug fixed (Marsalis), caused crash and corrupted index file.
- ECO brought back (Sparky), bug fixed for use with scratch games
- (uninitialized moveList caused crash). Examine can now
- be used to load board positions (Sparky). Works with
- scratch games also.
-
-1.6.1 News rewritten (Marsalis), Much faster code. Some crash
- protection code (writing player files after every 'set'
- command for example) has been supressed for speed.
- Bug in new playerfile code fixed (sanity checks added to
- avoid crashes).
-
-1.6 Playerfile formats completely recoded (DAV) new and old
- formats recognized. New format is written always. The
- new format has expanded functionallity, more compact form,
- and much faster processing.
-
-1.5.2 Ghosts hopefully killed; no more timeseal sitting;
- Oldmoves implementation changes; game structure shrunk.
- fics_hostname now takes it's contents from SERVER_NAME,
- which should nwo be a DNS resolvable hostname.
- fics_addplayer new account message modernized to include
- brief instructions on how to connect to the server and
- and warn about the use of anauthorzied duplicate accounts.
- both adminproc.c and fics_addplayer modified.
-
-1.5.1 Fixes in journal commands, some bughouse bugs.
-
-1.5.0 Journals allowed. Some fixes for NULL v. NULL games.
-
-1.4.0 Initial bughouse version.
-
-1.3.3 clearing and showing individual messages.
-
-1.3.2 fixes to open file bugs;
- clearing and showing messages from a particular player.
-
-1.3.1 kibitz level; tell/whisper bugs and similar fixed;
- noplay and gnotify lists.
-
-1.3.0 new admin structure for coordination, responding to suggestions, etc;
- got rid of annoyingly large version numbers :-).
-
-1.2.23-1.2.24 ???
-
-1.2.22 Examining of history games supported.
-
-1.2.21 Language variable; can't refresh private games;
- Got rid of "You are not observing" message when you are observing.
- New news interface; cnewsi, cnewsf, and news show on startup.
- Percent of life stats.
-
-1.2.20 New help interface; index command.
-
-1.2.19 Examine mode (without history game support)
- ECO and NIC codes now supported for history games and for
- interactive reporting on games in process.
- PGN format now supported for email of game scores.
- Direct sendmail support provided with the SENDMAILPROG
- definition in config.h, which overrides any MAILPROGRAM
- definition. Provides for more reliable and efficient operation
- under heavy load.
-
-1.2.18 variable mailmess: mails messages to you.
- messages give the user feedback on what was sent.
- simul commands simallabort, simadjourn, simalladjourn
- (aliases saa sadj saadj)
- simabort given alias sa
- cshout and it prompts fixed
- it gives better feedback
- can restart simuls (or untimed games in simul form) with simmatch
- game format reduced in size
-1.2.17 asetpasswd now sends mail to the player telling him the new
- password.
- extra info in up for admins
- annunreg seen by all admins
- hostinfo and lock removed as was fics_delplayer, fics_mailproc
- and mail_proc.
- see messages from one person, clear messages from a person
- More simul bug fixes.
- simprev (alias sp), goboard (alias go, goto), gonum commands.
- allow admin to reset RD; ratings may be set with 0 games played.
-1.2.16 Many simul bugs fixed, one fatal bug corrected which caused
- a crash during a simul.
- unobserve command.
- MAILPROGRAM replaced by "sendmail -t" and appropriate "To:"
- and subject headers. This should help with blank mail
- message problem. mailhelp and mailsource still depend on MAILPROGRAM
- stuff added for SUN5 compilation
- best info shown in who
-1.2.15 Simul bug fixed - losing connection led to a crash
- adjudicate written (forcedraw, forcewin, forceres commands removed)
- hostinfo removed from addplayer
-1.2.14 Simul code made operational.
- games list ordered.
- tally code disabled
-1.2.13 forcedraw, forcewin, forceres commands
- asetv command replaces pose
-1.2.12 bug fixes.
- pose weakened.
-1.2.11 First stable version of FICS. unnotify and unalias had big problems
- that led to crashes and corrupt player files.
- siteinfo removed - caused infinite lag
- mailmess
-1.2.10 bug fixes, max length enforced in alias to stop a crash.
-1.2.9 autoboot out code added.
-1.2.8 aliases fixed, @ added, can alias system commands
- flagging without material claims a draw, not a win.
-1.2.7 filter list operational.
- multicol.c used to drop 2048 bytes
-1.2.6 rank and best, makerank
- time for next shout shown.
- bug fix to timelog
- login/logouts logged
- addcomment and showcomment
-1.2.5 Summon written.
- ban list
- (TD) in who
- board styles fixed
- shout quotas, it and shout modified
- admin command to toggle (*)
- fixes to up
- admins can observe anything
-1.2.4 td list
- qtell, getpi, commands for TD
- asetblitz, asetstd
- news,anews
- wild chess made rated, best shows wild, new file
- asetwild
- next
- SGI compilation possible.
-1.2.3 lists
- (FM) (GM) (IM) (C) shown in who
- raisedead given a second argument to rename a player
- ahelp, info written
- help files split into help and info
- shutdown fixed
-1.2.2 internal version
-1.2.1 bug fixes.
- admin gods can only use pose.
- siteinfo shown
-1.2 notifiedby flag
- remplayer, asethandle, raisedead written
- nuke improved
- query disabled
-1.1 who bug fixed - caused a crash if more than 10 players on.
- ++++ shown in who for unreg players
- early version of nuke.
- (*) shown if level 10 admin
- level 60 given title Assistant superuser.
- who A, who l, who U, who R
- Look of announce and other stuff improved.
-1.0 Original Nash code.
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-Here is a more stable, hopefully more portable release of the
-FICS source code with many features added.
-
-People who have helped improve this from previous releases
-(March 1st 1995 onward) include (FICS names):
-DAV, foxbat, grimm, Hawk, hersco, loon, mann, Shane, Sparky, vek
-SORRY if you feel you should have been on this list but were forgotten.
-
-And Most thanks to red (Richard Nash) for the original code!
- And Micheal Moore for the original idea of an ICS.
-
--- Uploaded by Shane Hudson (Shane on FICS).
-Thanks to everyone for their support of FICS.