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From: 5123jsm@hound.UUCP (J.MASTERS)
Newsgroups: net.games.rogue
Subject: Advanced Rogue 5.5 Problems
Message-ID: <749@hound.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 16-Nov-84 08:53:29 EST
Article-I.D.: hound.749
Posted: Fri Nov 16 08:53:29 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 17-Nov-84 04:12:21 EST
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ
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We have a new version, Advanced Rogue 5.5 I think, and I've been
having a couple of problems.  The first is that twice I've had
good games going and all of a sudden the game dies and I get a
tombstone that says "died of a bug".  In both games my hit points
were at their max (over 100 in each).  In the first game, I had
just found a potion of magic detection, so I droped a couple of
unidentified objects, moved a couple of spaces away then quaffed
the potion of magic detection and died.  My first thought was
that it was a cursed potion, but that seemed a rather severe
punishment.  In the second game, I had just finished clearing
out a level 23 treasure room of about 30 monsters.  I used my
alchemy jug that had magic detection liquid in it to determine
which objects were cursed, then was checking out every thing
when about 50 turns after using the magic detection, I died of
a bug again.  As I said earlier, I know that in each case my
hit points were at their max, and I was not infested.  The potion
of magic detection is common to both games, but in the one
I died right away, and in the other a short while later.  I
guess I'm wondering if anyone knows whether this is a software
bug or some other bug I may have missed.  If it is a software
bug, how do I avoid whatever sequence caused it.  I don't know
if Advanced Rogue 5.5 is a hacked up version or not, but if
there is someone that is familiar with the source I would
appreciate your advice.

The second problem I've been having is with the score file.
As I mentioned, we just changed over to the new version, and
everything was working fine with the the score file (the top
20 scores were displayed) until I tried a "rogue -s" just
to look at the scores.  Since then I haven't seen the score
file.  When I get killed, the objects in my pack are identified,
then my tombstone is displayed (or in the other order) then
I get my prompt again.  Any ideas how I can fix this problem?

Any help would be appreciated.

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