ncoverby@ndsuvax.UUCP (Glen Overby) (09/14/88)
For several months we have been happily playing Conquer 3.0 at patch level 5, but now it has been consistantly coredumping on us. Our machine: AT&T 3B2/300 running System 5 Release 2.0 3B2 version (I know, it's old). I have seen two different errors: a Floating Point Exception and Bus Error. The FP Exception normally occurs in navy battles where there are no men left on a ship (combat.c navalcbt() where there is a division on dkcrew). The bus error in other places, and I've found (with sdb), that the nation number is always 32 (our nation max is the default 28). I have backed off to no patches, and everything runs fine. At patch level 2 admin again leaves it's carcas on the disk. I don't find the code to exactly be a pleasure to work with, so I am asking if anybody has encountered these problems and fixed them. I can post or mail sdb stack traces upon request. I'm mainly curious about whether or not anybody else is in the same boat as us. -- Glen Overby ncoverby@plains.nodak.edu !uunet!ndsuvax!ncoverby ncoverby@ndsuvax (Bitnet)