creps@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Steve Creps) (12/28/87)
I've come across another NetHack error. I'm using the MS-DOS version. When the player is killed, and a bones file is created, it seems that instead of leaving a ghost of the player, a little dog is left in its place. I know this isn't the player's little dog, because this dog is unnamed, and I find another dog on the same level that has been named. (I'm the only one playing on this machine. It's mine!) This bug seems to be consistent, and I never find a ghost, just a little dog by the pile of deceased adventurer's stuff. I seem to remember a similar bug being fixed after the 1.3-1.4 release, but can't find the solution. If anyone remembers that fix, it would probably solve this problem. (That bug left a different monster instead of the ghost, but not a little dog. Maybe a killer bee?) Another problem is very annoying bugs having to do with blindness, probably caused by the new blindfold feature. I've mentioned before that sometimes you can't see anything, even though it tells you you are no longer blind. I have some more information, possibly not quite related. Today I went into a shop on a bones level in which I had been killed by the shopkeeper, and he was still mad. Anyway, after a short battle with a demon, a little dog (guess why he was there instead of a ghost), and the shopkeeper, all three lay dead from a wand of fire (I was in debug mode checking on the ghost bug). It was then I noticed that the computer thought I was blind, even though I shouldn't have been. Thing was, I could see monsters all over the level because of my telepathy, but I also could still see objects in the shop (even after moving over them). I scanned some code and found something suspicious in shk.c, in which Blinded and Blindfolded are stored in tempory variables, changed, then restored. That could be a problem. I don't know if that was the cause, or if it was because I read a scroll of monster confusion. I've noticed problems with blindness after reading one of these other times as well. Another problem I noticed was that when I dropped a blindfold while I was wearing it, I was still blind. Reminds me of an old bug with the leash code. - - - - - - - - - Steve Creps on the VAX 8650 running Ultrix 2.0-1 at Indiana University. creps@silver.bacs.indiana.edu "F-14 Tomcat! There IS no substitute."
rustcat@russell.STANFORD.EDU (Vallury Prabhakar) (12/29/87)
In article <581@silver.bacs.indiana.edu> creps@silver.UUCP (Steve Creps) writes: ... Afraid I don't have the answers to any of the questions except the last. ... > Another problem I noticed was that when I dropped a blindfold while I >was wearing it, I was still blind. Reminds me of an old bug with the >leash code. I had some trouble with this too. I later found out that when one "a(pplies)" the blindfold again, sight is restored. I don't know if this is a bug or a feature, but suspect that it's the latter. Same thing used to happen to the leash situation in previous versions, if I recall correctly. My problem with the MS-DOS version, is that when I enter a shop and pick up something, the shop-keeper begins bargaining, but a whole lot of weird escape/control characters are spewed out on my terminal and in *most cases* it freezes. A couple of times I got the dreaded "Game is not in order, maybe you ought to quit" message or something to that effect. Could this be a problem created when I downloaded the binary files and ran them through the shell-script to uudecode, etc. the binaries? I guess I ought to download them all again, and try it just to be sure. -- [5mDisclaimer: "I'm not a light-bulb joke, but I play one in life."[m [5m"Stormbringer's coming... E-mail: rustcat@russell.stanford.edu Time to die.." vallury@cnc-sun.stanford.edu[m