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From: wdao@girtab.usc.edu (Walter Dao)
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Subject: Adventure (abd20)
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Date: 24 Mar 91 09:32:40 GMT
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It is a follow up for one of the previous message .

I posted earlier that the game doesnt let you restore (it let you save it 
though) the game unless you are a "WIZARD".
I then received a message from ,  I think the person who ported the game to 
the Amiga. In a few word, that person kept that "feature" so the it has the 
feel of the original version (which ran on an antique piece of machinery).
Well, that excuse is weak !!! jeez, I am playing that game to explore the 
Cave, not to have the look and feel of a clunky old computer !!! 
Hell, it is like trying to play "bards tale" without a save/restore command. 
Impossible. NOBODY but NOBODY will stay riveted to the computer for 4 days 
trying to finish the game. 

However there is a command that seems to put the player into wizard mode. 
just type WIZARD. it will ask for confirmation (y/n question) then for a 
password . I have tried "PLEASE" and many obvious ones. ("say the magic word")
so what is the secret word ? 
Is it Gandalf ? ( I have tried it but nothing .) (I saw it embedded in the 
code around the area dealing with the save/restore feature) 

anyway for everybody : 
dont do what the stupid programmer did. when porting a game from mainframe to 
home computer , there is NO need to check for the "load average" or such 
nonsense ... 

and again, having no save/restore feature dooms that game (great concept)
to oblivions (shame on the programmer !!!!) 
(programmer who is a piece of S**T in my mind and to whom I will say to 
F**K O*F ). 
(I have enough stress in my life just to get stepped on in a game which 
is supposed to distract ).

I will of course retract everything I said here if the restore feature really
works (I dont know how, perhaps the magic word ? or was the programmer unable 
to handle the restore routine). 
or even a new version. 

(by the way, it runs faster if the files are in RAM:)

bottom line : 
avoid this game like the plague !!!! again , it is "Adventure" found in
BD20 (128.155.23.64) , GAMES subdirectory of Incoming/amiga



				Walter
      			        "I'm gonna knock you out !!!"