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Article #1453

Re: a QUESTion

#1453
From: Herb Chong
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1986 00:31
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In article <152@Shasta.ARPA> yossi@su-Shasta.ARPA (Joseph Friedman) writes:
>I recall that when I saw the sources of hack version 1.0.1 (about six
>months ago), I noticed that there were many `#ifdef QUEST's, and it
>seemed that you could compile hack with `-DQUEST' and get a different
>game.  I tried that and got compilation(!) errors.  Tried to make some
>cludges in order to allow compilation, but it failed to execute.  Does
>anybody know anything about the game `quest'?

when net.games.hack was first created, this was one of the earliest
questions.  quest requires additional files that were never distributed
with any version of hack.  the only difference between quest and hack
is that quest has irregularly shaped rooms.

Herb Chong...

I'm still user-friendly -- I don't byte, I nybble....

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From: herbie@polaris.UUCP (Herb Chong)
Newsgroups: net.games.hack
Subject: Re: a QUESTion
Message-ID: <474@polaris.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Mar-86 19:31:17 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 17 19:31:17 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 28-Mar-86 05:23:45 EST
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