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From: thomas@hotb.radig.de (Thomas Brettinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Re: MDG is NEAT! Um...
Message-ID: <1991Feb23.191404.4767@hotb.radig.de>
Date: 23 Feb 91 19:14:04 GMT
References: <1991Feb21.021206.1085@coplex.uucp>
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In <1991Feb21.021206.1085@coplex.uucp> dean@coplex.uucp (Dean Brooks) writes:

>Hey!

>   I just wanted to let everyone know that the recently posted MDG
>is neat!  It has everything you could want from a multiplayer
>dungeon game.  It has about every feature a multiplayer-hack type
>game could get.

True. It is really a pretty nice game.

>   However, there appears to be a small problem with curses when
>running.  The screen is drawn almost correctly, except for misplaced
>items (like the ". HOME HOME HOME ." string).  They get thrown
>on the screen at the wrong position.  This only happens when you
>first strat the game, or you redraw with CTRL-L.  When moving from
>room to room, everything draws perfectly.

I did not notice this, but another problem relatet to screen io:
on the console or the virtual screens, the game is running fine.
But it hangs on a serial line at a fputs(SOMETHING, stderr) statement.
As if this wasn't enough, if I go through it with a debugger,
everything works perfectly allright. Maybe I discovered a bug in ISC's
io libs but has anyone had similar problems?

>   (Also, the $LIB/players/default file was missing from the
>    distributed source) 
>                                            Dean

I created an empty file and gave myself hitpoints using a text editor
:-)

Thomas

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