zmacu19@doc.ic.ac.uk (N J Williams) (03/17/89)
Okay - my 2 low denomination coins worth...
After deciding SunOS was close enuff to BSD for most things I tried to
compile tetris - With the various fixes (i.e. the segmentation fault
fix to do with the getenv("TETRIS") on startup and the conversion of
all the numbers into decimal instead of some strange octal), the game
worked perfectly - for about a half hour.
After really getting on with a good score, I hit the space key to
fast-drop a block. The block dropped. The terminal crashed. The sun
had received a panic - bus error and auto-rebooted.
I guess this means it does not work. The bug is not reproducible on
demand, but only appears occasionally. Also because of its rather
severe nature, I haven't done that much testing [sigh - shame 'cos
it's a great game...]
I *did* read the documentation and notice the comment that it was
BSD specific, but I wouldn't have thought the differences could cause
a system panic (I would not have thought any software could do that,
but then what do I know? :-) Has anybody else tried to compile it
under SunOS? (That is SunOS 4.0.1 on a Sun3) Can it be done? Is it
worth the hassle?
Oh well... That's `42` I suppose.
Nick.
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