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From: play@turing.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.games.hack
Subject: Re: Possible bug in hack
Message-ID: <243@turing.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 23-Jan-85 10:06:39 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 23 10:06:39 1985
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In article <3338@ucla-cs.ARPA> ryan@ucla-cs.UUCP writes:
>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/**
>

Probably you were playing as WIZARD (i.e., hack -w). That is a
debugging mode (I should have taken it out before posting the
sources) and peculiar things might happen when you use it.
(For instance, in this particular case, what happens is that the
players strength is a signed character and lies in the range -1 .. 118.
However, if you die as a WIZARD your strength is incremented; if this
happens often enough it will go from 127 to -128.)
I do not regard this as a bug - it is like your weapon exploding when
you enchant it too much - but I will do something about it in the
next release.