🚀 go-pugleaf

" As you read the scroll, you become confused.  Call it: UNIX* manual "

   I would like to thank everyone who has expressed interest in PC Hack.  I
never expected the sheer volume of response I recieved!  Unfortunately, the
game is not yet ready for release, and probably won't be for another month
or two.  So, ***PLEASE***, no more letters!!!  We'll let everyone know via
a posting when we decide to make it generally available, the method of
distribution, etc.  In the meantime, I would like to bring everyone up to
date on our progress.

   + Save is now partially working.  Unfortunately, saving games at lower
     levels generally exhausts disk space on a 360K floppy.

   + The 'f' and 'F' command prefixes still don't work, but we're hot on
     the trail of the bug.

   + Two wands (known as "infinite loop" and "divide overflow") still don't
     work correctly, but the rest of the wands, scrolls, and potions seem to
     be correct.

   + We are adding color and special characters to the version for the IBM PC.

   + One of our playtesters has made it down to level 20, before being killed
     by a cockatrice.

I will make another posting in about a month or so, giving another progress
report and our preliminary ideas for distribution.  In the meantime, remember:

" Real programmers don't play rogue, they fix the bugs in HACK ! "

Note to Andreas Brouwer:  I'm sorry you didn't feel that the PDP-11 version
was fit for distribution.  Without it, PC Hack would have been just a gleam
in my eye!  You may have saved countless machine cycles that can now be used
for real work! :-)
 
-- 
     Happy Hacking, Carl  (carl@ncr-tp)

" Ask me no questions and I might not tell you any lies ... fnord ... "