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From: jona@clyde.UUCP (Jon Allingham)
Newsgroups: net.games.hack
Subject: Re: Possible bug in hack
Message-ID: <769@clyde.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 23-Jan-85 14:52:43 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 23 14:52:43 1985
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> Has anyone ever had a problem with a players strength going down
> to -128 around level 24 or so
> if you have please post on how this problem is fixed..
> It has somthng to do withthe strength going past 18/**

strength is only an 8 bit number and if you increase your strength
to much you'll cause it to wrap around and become negative.

In the code, there is a check for strength == 118 , it should
probably ( but I haven't tried it ) be strength >= 118 to keep
from incrementing into the negative.

One solution is to stop quaffing potions of gain strength and don't
eat any tins of spinach once your strength is ** since it won't get
much better.


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Jon M. Allingham	(201)386-3466	AT&T Bell Laboratories-WH

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