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From: play@mcvax.UUCP (funhouse)
Newsgroups: net.games.hack
Subject: Re: saved game bug
Message-ID: <471@mcvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 20-Feb-85 22:22:46 EST
Article-I.D.: mcvax.471
Posted: Wed Feb 20 22:22:46 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 24-Feb-85 04:49:15 EST
References: <122@tardis.UUCP>
Reply-To: play@mcvax.UUCP (The CWI-funhouse)
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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In article <122@tardis.UUCP> rst@tardis.UUCP (Robert Thau) writes:
>
> ...  At one point, two guys managed to simultaneously restart two instances
>of a game that one of them had previously saved.  Both encountered the same
>levels, with the same objects on them. ...

Yes, that shouldnt be too difficult. The save file is unlinked after its
contents have been read, but that may take a second or two. If two people
using the same account restart their game at the same moment, they will
have this effect. (If you are alone and want to cheat anyway you can just
take a copy of the save file, or make an extra link to it.)

>Saved games here seem to be pretty flaky regardless (often the game
>fails to restart and you simply lose).

Clearly you are talking about the recently posted PDP11 version.
I do not know of serious bugs in the 'official' hack.
(However, you shouldnt Save while swallowed by a Purple worm ...)