dc@max.berkeley.edu (Dave Cottingham) (09/29/90)
I posted the following note to comp.sources.games.bugs last week, and although I got a good response of people asking for me to pass along the patches, I didn't get any patches. So I'm posting this to a few newsgroups in the hopes of finding some kind soul who can help me and all the other people I've heard from who wish their XCONQ 5.1 would stop dumping core. I can't believe that MIT or Stanford or other such international centers of intensive undergraduate computer gaming don't have these bugs patched. (I did get one response from a guy who had done a lot of work on his copy of XCONQ (and I do appreciate his response), but like I say below, I'm specifically looking for fixes to bugs, not enhancements.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ There seem to be several well-known bugs in XCONQ 5.1 as archived in comp.sources.games, and no doubt there are well-known fixes for all of them, but I don't have them and I can't find them in the official archives. Could someone out there tell me how to get ahold of some patches relative to the 5.1 dist (pref) or a patched version, either by anonymous FTP (pref) or by mail. Note that I'm not too interested in enhancements, I'm just looking for repairs. Help save the bandwidth, mail replies to me, and if you're looking for this stuff too, mail me a note and I'll pass along what I get. If there is no archive for unofficial patches already, I am willing to become one (as long as the boss doesn't find out). Dave Cottingham "The practical scientist is trying to solve tomorrow's CfPA, UCB problem with yesterday's computer; the computer scien- tist, we think, often has it the other way around." dc@max.berkeley.edu W.H.Press et al., Numerical Recipes in C