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From: dohm@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Peter J Dohm)
Subject: Re: AstroNUT V1.0
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In Regards to AstroNUT:

Not a bad little game... 
A bit slow, but I like it.

(anyone care to try rewriting in in rpl?  I thought not.)

I have found a teensy bug in it, though.
It is necessary to modify module "PLAY" to ensure that flag -19 is CLEAR
when the program executes.  Otherwise, when one of the calls in the program
is attempting to convert something into a vector form, it's actually 
converting it into a complex, and crashing on an incorrect type for E+ 
(sumnation).
This is quite trivial to fix.  Just make sure that you add the -19 cf after
the rclf (recall flags) at the beginning of the program so that you don't
change the original state of the calculator any.

Another question for kevin:  Is it necessary to create all those variables
in the directory?  I just added a line or two to purge them all when done.
Is this taking a lot more time? (it doesn't seem to be)  Any particular
reason why you'd done it this way? (see, i need all the memory i can get :)

My applause to kevin for a good game!

I do have some suggestions for others:

I've no clue what I'm doing when it comes to rpl, and would love to learn it.
Thats my project for the summer, no doubt.  But, for now, I've a question
for all you rpl game writers out there.  Anyone interested in trying to write
berzerk or missile command?  Are there any of the other classics that 
would be fun?

enjoy..

Peter J. Dohm

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