How to Avoid Crashes

[Lich]

Some more common crashes:

-too many items on level (eg from ants digging out the whole place) and monsters trying to pick up too many things
-dropping ingots (bug with them stacking)
-Khelly dropping items (best to back-up before giving him his amulet)

Oh my, it looks like my bard for the THUS game is a disaster waiting to happen. I let ants dig out most of PC 2, gave Khelly the amulet (luckily nothing bad happened) and currently have 6 eternium ingots and several iron ones sitting in the dwarftown smithy. I guess the first thing I will do when I get to my character again is to make a backup of the save file.

[Evil Knievel]

Idea: the game could silently generate a single save file each time the player character first enters a level other than those within the ID, and then silently delete this file each time:
-the PC enters a non-ID level that hasn't been entered yet (new save will be generated afterwards)
-the player saves
-the player quits
-the PC dies
-an ADOM process starts running under the same user login that started the current ADOM session

without reading the rest of the thread, I want to reply to this one, as I think that would be the best way to do it. Some possible variation: Just overwrite the savefile each time you enter a level. I mean, there is no reason to consider visiting ID levels or levels visited before as non-progress.

And save time is not really an issue, I suppose (see, such a file has the tremendous size of ~100kb at most). Also put some flag in there to switch the feature on and off, or save every x levels, if you like.

EDIT: I wonder, if there is a way of recording adom's memory state and recovering it, so it might be implemented without the source code...

[Soirana]

EDIT: I wonder, if there is a way of recording adom's memory state and recovering it, so it might be implemented without the source code...

How do you think adombot works? Although extracting all Adom memmory is another problem...

[jaakkos]

How do you think adombot works? Although extracting all Adom memmory is another problem...

Yes, and the server would be using it if I wasn't too lazy to fix some things about it... http://http://cryopid.berlios.de/

Actually the cryopid images are being generated on the server even now. Only the restore system isn't in place. I have to copy some temp files to make it work properly, that's why...

[Covenant]

Yes, and the server would be using it if I wasn't too lazy to fix some things about it... http://http://cryopid.berlios.de/

Actually the cryopid images are being generated on the server even now. Only the restore system isn't in place. I have to copy some temp files to make it work properly, that's why...

I don't claim to follow this, but it sounds like a worthwhile cause. If you should change your mind, and there's anything any of us could do to help with it, please let us know.