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Article #774Re: ATC: a shell escape discussion
From: edjames
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1987 00:54
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1987 00:54
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In article <7430@cuae2.ATT.COM> djmolny@cuae2.UUCP (-DJ Molny) writes:
>If the shell escape feature is offensive to many players, it could
>be surrounded by an ifdef. Comments, please?
My original version cleared the screen on suspension. Maybe I'll
put that back. Also, I would prefer that all the features were
in all the versions (ie, only one version) of ATC. It just makes
things more consistent.
"I got 45 planes safe in ATC yesterday."
"Oh yah, I've been playing the same game for a month and I have 46!"
Sheesh!
--ed
Ps: All people with:
- suggestions
- improvements
- new playfields (original, not just hacked "default" games)
- mods
- hacks
- etc
should mail them to me so I can prepare a new release. So far
reported improvements/bugs include:
- sorted planes
- shell escape / suspension
- fixing of a circle bug ('R' when going west causes circle)
- planes crashing at airports (bug instilled by sorted fix)
- SysV mods (hopefully to be made abstract [I haven't looked yet])
- real time not saved in scorefile right
- document fixes (erase backs up, kill aborts command, return updates)
- t <numerical> is unimplemented?
- option to turn off noise
- Makefile fixes (don't run make as root!)
- sigmask macro now included (free!)
- ^L shuts down the interrupts while it redraws
- options to alter game speed and plane freq but no score recorded
- updated scores are sorted by safe_planes (to be consistent :-)
- core dump on "turn toward exit" on 3B20. Haven't found this one.
- > 8 char login name support (non-standards deserve what they get :-)
- < 15 char path name support (welcome to the dark ages)
- mountains && differing ground altitudes (just toying with this)
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ic.Berkeley.EDU!edjames From: edjames@ic.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sources.games Subject: Re: ATC: a shell escape discussion Message-ID: <1237@ucbcad.berkeley.edu> Date: Sun, 18-Jan-87 19:54:36 EST Article-I.D.: ucbcad.1237 Posted: Sun Jan 18 19:54:36 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Jan-87 06:06:19 EST References: <7121@cuae2.ATT.COM> <1225@ucbcad.berkeley.edu> <7430@cuae2.ATT.COM> Sender: news@ucbcad.berkeley.edu Reply-To: edjames@ic.Berkeley.EDU (Ed James) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 45