mcdonald@uiucuxe.cso.uiuc.edu (08/12/87)
Several persons have sent me messages about bugs in my game World, recently
posted to comp.sources.games. As none of them are really horrible, I'm going
to wait a few weeks before sending in a complete set of fixes. In the
meantime, note the following three points:
1) The supplied makefile doesn't work on some systems. This can be fixed
(according to one correspondent, I can't try it) by putting
return (0)
at the end of the vtxtcn, vcnvrt and world program main() routines.
2) On some Unix systems ^d hangs the program. Temporary fix: use QUIT
to exit the game; don't try to use input redirected from a file
(which is more or less useless anyway).
3) Be sure to get the q1text.dat file in the proper place in your file system
(which is defined in the definition of Q1TEXT in file helper.c .
I have also discovered a few bugs in the game logic itself; all of these
are of the sort which make it easier than intended to win, so I'll keep
them secret until the bug-fix release.
Doug McDonald