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From: rqdms@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (Dennis Stockert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Zork 1, Hitchhiker's Guide
Message-ID: <1990Nov19.222553.24729@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
Date: 19 Nov 90 22:25:53 GMT
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In article <1990Nov19.174938.9778@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>, I wrote...
> 
>1)  Can someone help me get past the spirits at the gates of Hades in 
>Zork 1 ??  I'm pretty sure I need to utilize bell, book and candle to 
>dispel them, but in the Amiga version the candles are too short to light.  
>Are there other candles around, or is there a way to make them usable??
> 
>2)  In Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I've not been able to get the 
>Babel fish from the vending machine on the Vogon ship.  I've blocked the 
>hole in the wall, the drain in the floor, and the lower robot panel, but 
>haven't found a way to defeat the airborne cleaning robot... also been 
>unsuccessful trying to get it by putting my ear in front of the vending 
>machine, since I then can't reach the button with my hands or any tools... 
>Ford Prefect is patently unhelpful; just wants to sleep.
> 
>Any help overcoming six-plus months of frustration would be accepted with  
>** GREAT ** relief and heart-felt gratitude...
> 
>E-mail replies unless you think anyone else out there but me is still 
>playing these games !!
> 
> 

Three replies so far on the Hitchhiker problem... thanks, world.  Not so 
lucky on Zork I.... << hint, hint >>


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