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From: ovb10@cs.kun.nl (Patrick Atoon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Amiga Omega followup...
Message-ID: <2510@wn1.sci.kun.nl>
Date: 29 Nov 90 09:58:46 GMT
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Reply-To: ovb10@cs.kun.nl (Patrick Atoon)
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aggaton@diku.dk (Klavs Torben Pedersen) writes:

>mndaily@ux.acs.umn.edu (Linda Seebach) writes:

>>I managed to get Amiga Omega... And, of course, it's got bugs. So far, the
>>first one I've noticed is that, if you walk in the door to the Order of
>>Paladins, you get killed. Even if you've joined the order...

>>Ahh, well. The same thing happened when I got omega elsewhere. It's a
>>great game - but every version I've ever seen has at least one major
>>bug... To be expected, I suppose. apart from that, it's one of the better
>>programming examples I've ever seen...

>      You don't need to make such a change! I have recently uploaded a
>completely new omega port originated from the Unix version 0.75. It should
>be less buggy (compared to the other ports I've been testing).
>      I'm not sure about the guards, but I've never died when passing the
>palladin's guild...
>      My port is not just a conversion, but also an expansion of the original
>game-play...It's a bit more (not much) Amigazed (File-requester, Menus, faster
>display, yet no graphics)...The levels are kept on disk...It does not leak
>memory...It only crashes (7-9-13 knock under the table) when an stack overflow
>occurs...etc. Try it B-)
>       It's called omega1_0.zoo (If its not recompacted to something else)
>and should be on the nasa ftp base (I don't remember the hole address).

Does it also LHarc it's saved games? I recently LHarced a 131068 bytes 
saved game and got a 8098 (94% shorter!!!) bytes file in return. No 
wonder that my disks get a bit crowded with saved-games. So if there is to
be any improvement (Besides the inventory half of which only shows up, so
you need to ">" and "<" a lot to see it all), it should be the crunching of
saved games (and STOP deleting them, you silly game).

So much for my 2 cents (Dutch guilders). See ya,
                                          Patrick

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