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From: jbuck@epimass.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.games.hack
Subject: Re: Question about unusual behavior when wielding dead cockatrices
Message-ID: <138@epimass.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Feb-86 17:14:32 EST
Article-I.D.: epimass.138
Posted: Wed Feb  5 17:14:32 1986
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Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.UUCP (Joe Buck)
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In article <2047@utcsri.UUCP> ray@utcsri.UUCP (Raymond Allen) writes:
>...
>	"you hit the (whatever) with the cockatice corpse --more--"
>	"the (whatever) is turned to stone!"
>
>	The problem is that the (whatever) is *not* turned to stone.
>You only get the usual corpse.  If you tame a cockatrice with a scroll
>of taming (or polymorph your dog into a cockatrice) when it hits another
>monster you end up with a pile of rocks which is the appropriate (i think)
>result.

I agree that this is a bug, though I had never tamed a cockatrice before
so I didn't know that the proper behavior occurs in that case (though the
fact that it does argues more strongly that it's a bug). (in 1.0.2 and 1.0.3)

So yes, it should be changed, except that the author of the game is no longer
on the net.  I kind of like the idea of an "official" hack so winning on my
machine is the same as winning on other machines (some of the patches I've seen
posted on this list really change the difficulty of the game).
-- 
- Joe Buck
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