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From: thad@public.BTR.COM (Thaddeus P. Floryan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Dungeon bug
Keywords: Dungeon, bug
Message-ID: <1941@public.BTR.COM>
Date: 27 Feb 91 11:37:14 GMT
References: <1991Feb26.065607.4477@DMI.USherb.CA> <1925@public.BTR.COM> <1991Feb27.060700.9609@DMI.USherb.CA>
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In article <1991Feb27.060700.9609@DMI.USherb.CA> ig29@terre (Robert Gagnon) writes:
>Now, do I feel stupid or what?  The problem is that when in the loud room,
>you don't even get a PROMPT, so I tought the game had crashed.  I had just
>read the docs that said that the original game had been written to fit in
>memory, not to be portable, so...

There are a LOT of "possibilities" in ZORK/Dungeon.  Do yourself a real
favor and get the IEEE article I cited yesterday; looking at the IEEE
copyright info, copies CAN be made after payment (to the IEEE) of 75 cents
for each copy made (ref: "0018-9162/79/0400-0051$00.75").  I am NOT proposing
a "group copy" (unless the interest is large enough :-), but I have done
similar things for other groups before, so I do have all the "mechanics" in
place.  Lessee some discussion about this ...

Back to the game ...

There's also something that can be done PRIOR to entering the room being
discussed that "disables" that room's peculiarities.

And, though NOT documented (syntactically) with the new Amiga Dungeon, write
down these two "hints" since the command syntax IS different from the DEC-20
and the InfoCom versions:

	ANSWER, <response>

	TELL <actor>, <command>

The DEC-20 and InfoCom versions' syntax is:

	ANSWER "<response>"

	TELL <actor> "<command>"

Note the difference regarding comma usage and quoted strings.  I'll leave it
to YOU to discover where these commands might be useful!  :-)

Now I have a question for everyone:

	What the heck is a ``palintir'' ?

I heard that word 12 years ago in reference to ZORK, never knew what it meant
then, and still don't know.  Reason I'm asking is because the palintir episode
is apparently not implemented in the (new) Dungeon (per its docs).

Thad Floryan [ thad@btr.com (OR) {decwrl, mips, fernwood}!btr!thad ]