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From: jimmy@uhunix1.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Jimmy Chan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Stuck on level 26 of Amiga Nethack
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Date: 14 May 91 03:31:24 GMT
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In article <91133.152739GUTEST8@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be> GUTEST8@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be (Ives Aerts) writes:
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>Well I'm stuck on level 26 of amiga nethack. I don't have any
>musical instrument so I can't lower the drawbridge. I do
>have a wand of polymorph but I think I'd get slaughtered if
>I cross the moat when polymporphed into a weaker character that
>can swim. Another solution presented to me by a friend is using
>my pick-axe to dig round the level but I can't get this to
>work in the amiga version. HEEEELLLLPPPPP...

Instead of polymorphing yourself try polymorphing items til you get
a musical instrument.  oh, make sure you have many polymorph wands.
I've always used this trick in nethack so, it should work with this
version unless they removed it from this patchlevel.