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From: bull@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Possible bug in Harpoon
Summary: too many messages
Keywords: harpoon bug
Message-ID: <1991Apr11.192923.86559@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>
Date: 11 Apr 91 09:29:23 GMT
Organization: Computer Centre, Monash University, Australia
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        I seem to have come across what *might* be a bug in Harpoon.

        I was playing the USSR commander in the North Atlantic Convoy
scenerio #3 (Bay of Biscay). A Carrier group sailed over the top of
2 of my subs, so I returned the favour by sending them some greeting
torpedoes ;). The subs were both Victor IIIs. After having fired all
the loaded Type 65 torpedoes on both subs (4 on each sub), the game put up a
"We have no ASuW" message window, 8 times every 30 seconds (simulator time)
until the tubes were reloaded. The problem was that the only way I could
get rid of the message windows was to click on the OK box in them with the
mouse, and the game would stop while these windows waited to be acknowledged
with the mouse. Changing the time to longer intervals only suceeded in
getting 16 windows for every simulated minute. The worst part was that
both subs were in the same unit, so I really should have only had to
answer 1 message for the entire unit, not 1 message per torpedo tube as
appeared to be the case at the time. If it's of any interest, I applied
Felix Hack's patches earlier that day, before this happened.

        I had a tired arm and a short temper by the time the message
windows stopped popping up.

           Bull@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au  OR  bull@monu1.cc.monash.oz
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