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1 total messages Started by mcdaniel Sat, 20 Jul 1985 22:17
*** SPOILER *** bug
#884
Author: mcdaniel
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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