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From: mike@rlvd.UUCP (Mike Woods)
Newsgroups: net.games.rogue
Subject: Bus error - core dumped (urogue)
Message-ID: <973@rlvd.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Dec-85 10:46:26 EST
Article-I.D.: rlvd.973
Posted: Thu Dec 12 10:46:26 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 16-Dec-85 05:08:44 EST
Reply-To: mike@rlvd.UUCP (Mike Woods)
Organization: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Atlas Buildings, U.K.
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Well it was like this...

I was playing ultra-rogue and doing the best ever.  I was on level 82
(having got there the hard way;  no banishment  for me!)   with about
20,000,000 experience (though the  nasty evil  sorceress' had pinched
all the artifacts!)  when I accidently hit a quartermaster (for about
third or fourth time in the game) (this may not be  significant).  Of
course he vanished and woke up all the monsters on the  level (it was
a maze level).  I didn't think much of this (I don't even  know if it
really did matter) but when I went down to level 83 I  found that the
dragons and giants seemed to have  got a  lot tougher  and were using
nastier  staffs  (or whatever  they use  to fire flames/ice/lightning
etc.).  

I did the level, went down to level 84 and decided to  save the game.
Trouble was, it wouldn't let  me, whenever  I entered  a filename the
game came back with error 0!  I strolled on round level 84 but by now
the game was running very  slowly (the  machine was  hardly loaded at
all).  

I went down to 85 and decided to  take out  the party  room and quit.
The  monsters  were  getting  tougher  and  tougher  (even the Nymphs
summoned by the sorceresses took four or five hits with a silvered +8
+8 two handed sword) and  I met  up with  an evil  sorceress who just
would not die (I must have hit her 30-40 times)  so I  decided it was
time to end the game (due only to the strange behaviour  of the game,
my  fighter  could  have gone  on for  a lot  longer (he  fell into a
Platinum Dragon's lair on level 72 and had killed all the monsters in
it  with his  sword)).   

I quit and it went  through the  motions of  counting up  my gold but
when it printed up the top ten it gave a bus error  when it attempted
to print my score (which, at 21,000,000, was first).  

To say that I was not pleased is  a little  of an  understatement.  I
examined the core and found that the program had been  doing an fseek
on a NULL file stream.  My score was not added to the score file.  

Is this a known bug?   Is it  likely to  happen everytime  I do well?
Will it be fixed?  In older versions of Rogue there were usually ways
round the fatal bugs, has anyone found a way round this one?

Any information will be gladly accepted.

Mike Woods.
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