wdao@girtab.usc.edu (Walter Dao) (03/19/91)
On ABDF20 there are the games ADVENTURE (colossal cave) and DUNGEON (ZORK1-3) I have played for a few minutes adventure, but is it possible to save ? I did try. but when I tried to restore the game (save then restore), it told me that It was going to take 30 minutes and that I was not a "WIZARD" therefore it aborted ... so what is the deal ? Walter
cs326ag@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Loren J. Rittle) (03/19/91)
In article <15929@chaph.usc.edu> wdao@girtab.usc.edu (Walter Dao) writes: > >On ABDF20 there are the games ADVENTURE (colossal cave) and DUNGEON (ZORK1-3) >I have played for a few minutes adventure, but is it possible to save ? >I did try. but when I tried to restore the game (save then restore), it told >me that It was going to take 30 minutes and that I was not a "WIZARD" therefore >it aborted ... >so what is the deal ? > > Walter The deal is that the mainframe version of Adventure had cheating protection built into the game. I decided that it may be a good idea to keep the game the same. Saving does work, but as stated you must wait 30 minutes before restarting (this prevents you from copying the file and restarting right away). See in adventure, a saved game is delete upon restarting... And in the UNIX version, only root can change the system time and mess with the Adventure save file. Of course, on the Amiga the whole point is moot, as anyone can copy files and change the system time, etc. Adventure is just trying to completely receate the mainframe orignal and the game is better if you don't cheat... Loren J. Rittle Porter of Adventure and Dungeon -- ``NewTek stated that the Toaster *would* *not* be made to directly support the Mac, at this point Sculley stormed out of the booth...'' --- A scene at the recent MacExpo. Gee, you wouldn't think that an Apple Exec would be so worried about one little Amiga device... Loren J. Rittle l-rittle@uiuc.edu