Re: SPOILERS++ and a bug report

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From: perry
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1985 18:52

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>Games containing engravings can be saved but not restarted.  We have
>never encountered an exception to this rule.  Have you?

Yes!!  The game core-dumps while trying to restore the engravings.  We got
around it once by using adb(1) to trap the bug and continue on.  It appears
to be caused by a nil-pointer dereference (at least that's what is looked like
in the disassembled 68000).  The commands which seem to work are:

adb hack.executable
:r   (run it)
:s1  (after the restore engravings trap)
:c   (you're on your way...)

What this does to the game is anyone's guess.

Perry Scott, HP-FSD
...{allegra|ihnp4|decvax|ucbvax}!hplabs!hpfcla!perry-s

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Subject: Re: SPOILERS++ and a bug report
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