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Re: What is Quest ??!!

#542
From: Andries Brouwer
Date: Sun, 05 May 1985 12:33
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In article <1943@sdcrdcf.UUCP> doon@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Harry W. Reed) writes:
>Well, after changing the makefile to include a -DQUEST (so that Quest
>would be compiled rather than Hack) and moving around a few lines  of code
>I was able to compile 'Quest'. The only problem is that the rooms in Quest
>still have a rectangular form.

(As I have said at least twice in this newsgroup before, and wrote to a
few dozen people:)
	YOU DON'T HAVE QUEST.
Compiling Hack with -DQUEST deletes the shopkeeper and vault code and
generally makes the game somewhat slower, but doesn't change significant
characteristics. Hack and Quest share a lot of code, but the main part
of Quest has not yet been distributed. It will be, eventually.
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From: aeb@mcvax.UUCP (Andries Brouwer)
Newsgroups: net.games.hack
Subject: Re: What is Quest ??!!
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Date: Sun, 5-May-85 08:33:23 EDT
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Posted: Sun May  5 08:33:23 1985
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