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From: setzer@nssdcs.gsfc.nasa.gov (William Setzer (IDM))
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Re: Omega3 bugs
Summary: The fix for 'problem 3' (restoring does a core dump).
Message-ID: <373@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Date: 15 Jul 89 17:56:56 GMT
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Reply-To: setzer@nssdcs.UUCP (William Setzer (IDM))
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In article <3494@uokmax.UUCP> kwthomas@uokmax.UUCP (Kevin Thomas) writes:
>There are a couple of bugs in the recently released omega3, version 0.75.
>I found these playing the beta release (ftp'd from paul.rutgers.edu).
[...]
>Problem 3:
>Restoring a game fails.  The cause is a couple of lines of missing code.

The fix is in file osave.c at line ~610 (counted by hand, so don't take
as gospel).  There is a sequence of lines in restore_player that looks like:

------
-    #ifndef MSDOS
-        fread((char *)&(Objects[i].known),sizeof(int),1,fd);
-    #else
         fread((char *)&(Objects[i].known),sizeof(Objects[i].known),1,fd);
-    #endif
------
(I added the minuses at the beginning of lines 1, 2, 3 and 5.)  Just
remove the lines starting with the minus and everything should work ok.
(The problem is that Objects[i].known is type 'uchar', not int.  I don't
know how it worked for Laurence.)
--
William Setzer
setzer@epsl.umd.edu   ; My 'real' mail address.