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Article #884*** SPOILER *** bug
From: mcdaniel
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 1985 22:17
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 1985 22:17
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Has this one been posted before?
When certain bad things happen, you get to pause at a --More--:
You touch the cockatrice with bare hands --More--
Eating salmon makes your hands very slippery --More--
(when wielding a cryknife)
You fall into a pool! --More--
You choke on your food. --More--
You fall down the stairs --More--
(when wielding a cockatrice -- you're about to touch it)
et cetera.
Before hitting <space>, you usually spend some time on certain pungent
4-letter words of the Anglo-Saxon persuasion, along with "How could I
have been so stupid?!?" However, you can spend that time more
profitably, with "stty 0 > /dev/tty<whatever your game is on>".
A HUP signal is sent to hack. (Or you can just "kill -HUP" it.)
The game is saved, and restoring it annuls the action. You probably
have to do it before You die. ... --More--. In other words, this
prevents most death.
Fix? I don't know -- do all effects before printing any messages?
A lot of work, if that would even work.
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Tim McDaniel; CSRD at the Silicon Prairie
(Center for Supercomputing Research and Development at the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.7 $; site uiucdcsb Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcsb!mcdaniel From: mcdaniel@uiucdcsb.Uiuc.ARPA Newsgroups: net.games.hack Subject: *** SPOILER *** bug Message-ID: <141200013@uiucdcsb> Date: Sat, 20-Jul-85 18:17:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uiucdcsb.141200013 Posted: Sat Jul 20 18:17:00 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 22-Jul-85 07:48:34 EDT Lines: 34 Nf-ID: #N:uiucdcsb:141200013:000:1316 Nf-From: uiucdcsb.Uiuc.ARPA!mcdaniel Jul 20 17:17:00 1985