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From: paul@wjvax.UUCP (Paul Summers)
Newsgroups: net.games.rogue
Subject: The FLAME hits --More--
Message-ID: <237@wjvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 26-Oct-84 22:50:17 EST
Article-I.D.: wjvax.237
Posted: Fri Oct 26 22:50:17 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 28-Oct-84 07:10:42 EST
Organization: Watkins Johnson, San Jose, Calif.
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YES THIS IS A FLAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For the first time ever, I found the Amulet.  Here I was, practically
invincible (+6,+10 mace, ring of stealth, +6 rustproofed banded mail,
strength 20, polymorph, scare monster, teleports, 157000 experience points).
I could take out a Jabberwok (yes, 5.3) with about 3 hits.  That mace would 
never miss.

There was only one thing to which I was not imune:

	THAT #%&@%$* "saved game bug"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I had been keeping the game in the background when I wasn't playing it just
to avoid that very problem.  I had never been hit by a nymph, so my pack
was in good shape.  I'd been playing the game off and on for about a week,
when I decided I was pushing my luck with system crashes (I've lost several
good starts through system crashes using this method) so I saved the game.
I SAVED THE GAME! Oh, the folly of my deed!

I made sure that I was standing on a stair case before saving it.  The next day,
I restored the game and took one step to the left.  Nothing happenned. I 
typed several more h's and got this response:


	---------------
	|  ...        |
	|  .@hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
	|  ...        |
	+             |
	---------------
Of course!  The game was saving itself, without out even asking it to do so.
No problem, I thought.  I'll just restore it, and go up the stairs.  That should
fix everything.  WRONG.  I did an inventory (the only thing I could do.)
My pack was a shambles.  It looked like the list had linked back to itself.
I had two of everything (that is, two item a)'s, two item b)'s).  

DEFEATED BY FAULTY SOFTWARE.

		       ----------
		      /          \
                     /    REST    \
                    /      IN      \
                   /     PEACE      \
                  /                  \
                  |      Gimli       |
                  |     6650 Au      | 
                  |   Killed by a    |
                  |  Lazy Programmer |
                  |      1984        |
                * |   *    *         | *
         _______/_(\/)/\(\/\/)/\/)//\\/)_________

I think I'm going to switch to sail.
-- 

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Paul Summers
Watkins Johnson, Co.
2525 N. First St.
San Jose, Ca.  95131-1097

(408) 262-1411 x3203

(...wjvax!paul)

Working is fine, but I wouldn't want to make a career out of it.