Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucsfcgl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!mhuxt!mhuxr!ulysses!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!kneller From: kneller@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Don Kneller%Langridge) Newsgroups: net.games.hack Subject: PC HACK availability Message-ID: <754@ucsfcgl.UUCP> Date: Tue, 21-Jan-86 19:13:56 EST Article-I.D.: ucsfcgl.754 Posted: Tue Jan 21 19:13:56 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 23-Jan-86 20:28:19 EST Reply-To: kneller@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Don Kneller) Organization: UCSF Computer Graphics Lab Lines: 82 /-\ |@| You are being digested by a mysterious monster -- More -- \-/ PC HACK 3.0 ----------- Requirements ------------ This is an MSDOS version of UN*X HACK 1.03 written in Microsoft C v3.0. It requires 320K ram, DOS 2.x or higher, 2 floppies or 1 hard disk. It uses the ANSI.SYS driver for screen IO, so should be portable to most MSDOS machines. It does work on DEC Rainbows! It was written on an IBM PC with monochrome screen. Features -------- This is the complete UN*X HACK 1.03 with several enhancements: 1) Definable screen characters for the dungeon. Works on the Rainbow too. 2) Numeric key pad (cursor keys) support for IBM BIOS compatible computers (compatibility at the software interrupt level). 3) Support for RAMdisks, floppies, hard disks. If you have sufficient RAM for a RAMdisk, the game is much faster and quieter, especially for floppy-only systems. 4) Several options including pack sorting (by object class) and pack order (to set the sort order), confirmation before hitting tame or peaceful monsters, silent mode for turning off the bell. 5) Protection from disk full errors (and collapsing dungeons). 6) Save files are portable between MSDOS machines. 7) Configuration from a file to reduce the number of environment variables to 1 (which is also optional). Availability ------------ PC HACK 3.0 is available by anonymous ftp from ARPAnet host USC-ISIB in directory INFO-IBMPC. The executable is HACK30.ARC and sources are HACK30S.ARC and HACK30S.DOC. Both of the ARC files were created with ARC430.COM, and hence are binary files. Thus, when you ftp them, make sure you use a binary mode (from our ftp program, I use the command 'type tenex' to set binary mode). Also, if you use kermit to transfer them to your PC, you must use binary transfer (the -i flag in UNIX C-Kermit). The sources are written for the Microsoft C compiler v3.0 and depend extensively on structure assignment and passing, so there will be quite a bit of work converting to a compiler that does not support these. The large compiler model is used (> 64K prog, > 64K data). Included in the sources is a 'make' program that I wrote. There is a bug with the -n flag. You may run out of memory if there are too many files to be made. The bug only exists when you do 'make -n'. If you are actually executing the commands, there is no problem. This bug has been fixed, and the updated 'make' program will be supplied to anyone sending floppies. I will supply executable and source to people who do not have an ARPAnet connection. Send 1 *DSDD* floppy *formatted* for MSDOS (or PCDOS) 2.x if you want the executable only, and 1 ADDITIONAL floppy if you also want source. I cannot write DEC formatted diskettes! The sources will be in ARChive form, so you will need ARC430.COM (supplied on the source floppy) to unpack them. If you send floppies, please send a SELF-ADDRESSED return mailer with sufficient postage! If you do not supply postage, include $2 for postage. Thanks for your interest in PC HACK, Don Kneller 2 Panoramic Way #204 Berkeley, CA 94704 USA -- Don Kneller UUCP: ...ucbvax!ucsfcgl!kneller ARPA: kneller@ucsf-cgl.ARPA BITNET: kneller@ucsfcgl.BITNET