josh@joshua.UUCP (Joshua Gordon) (06/25/84)
Hey roguers:
My version of Rogue, version 5.2 running on Altos XENIX, has a nasty
little bug: Leprechauns do their usual thing, but after an L encounter,
there is also a BIG chance that when you find *, the sum is deducted
rather than added to your score.
Add to this the fact that lightning wands sometimes bounce FOREVER...
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from the blithering idioms of josh gordon
{ihnp4,ucbvax,cbosgd,decwrl,amd70,fortune,zehntel}!dual!joshua!joshgoldfarb@ucf-cs.UUCP (Ben Goldfarb Esq.) (06/27/84)
This is probably because of the "negative gold" bug that was discovered
when 5.2 was first released. The gold value is an unsigned one byte
integer which somehow managed to become signed, thus any value above
127 is seen as a negative number. I have a patch that requires an
unstripped binary and adb, but it is for the Vax, so I doubt that it will
help you on your Xenix system. Of course, if you have the source, you
can find the problem, fix it, and recompile.
Ben Goldfarb
University of Central Florida
{duke,decvax}!ucf-cs!goldfarb