Hello,
my installation went into a crazy mode where each death is followed by a crash, the game is saved, and then restarted with a negative life. For some reason, when I check properties of DoomRL installation directory I see a gray check in "read only" box, but even when I uncheck it and apply change (to all files and subfolders, mind you) the same crash happens again next time.
<Edit> This is the latest release - 0.9.8.5, Windows, with sound. </Edit>
This bug prevented me from reaching Lieutenant rank - I did reach level 10 in Angel of Impatience challenge (who ever said it was MEDIUM? AoB is easier than that, at least for me!) but the death did not register properly.
Here is the information printed out during my latest crash:
$0041D93A TPLAYER__WRITEMEMORIAL, line 1551 of dfplayer.pas
$0044A926 TBEING__KILL, line 891 of dfbeing.pas
$0044C38C TBEING__APPLYDAMAGE, line 1113 of dfbeing.pas
$0044EBBA TAFFECTS__RUN, line 155 of dfaffect.pas
$0044E8E3 TAFFECTS__TIME, line 125 of dfaffect.pas
$004494F1 TBEING__ACTION, line 737 of dfbeing.pas
$004495C8 TBEING__CALL, line 744 of dfbeing.pas
$0043E029 TLEVEL__TICK, line 544 of dflevel.pas
$00403C82 TDOOM__RUN, line 266 of doombase.pas
$00401097 main, line 21 of doomrl.pas
Hope that helps,
Zarin.