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From: andrew@cadomin.UUCP (Andrew Folkins)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Amiga Hack information request
Message-ID: <680@cadomin.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 10-Aug-86 16:42:50 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 10 16:42:50 1986
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Organization: U. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
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The net hits! -- more -- 
You have 384 unread messages in net.jokes (of which 7 are funny).

 
Well, I finally got the recently posted verion of Hack up and running, but
it has a couple of problems.  First off, I think I'm missing the character
set file, as when I run it, the monsters, rooms, corridors etc. appear as
what looks like an uninitialized bitmap (lots of little dots, random colors).
Messages and the status line info come out fine, but the graphics for the 
dungeon itself are garbaged.  Could some kind soul send me this file?

Note : silly me didn't save part 13, the uuencoded binary (which I heard got
corrupted anyway), and so compiled the entire thing from the source code.
I'm assuming that this is where the character set file was, as it wasn't in
parts 1-12.
 
The linker complained about the "at" function defined in hack.graphics.c
and hack.pri.c, so I recompiled hack.pri.c with -dGRAPHICS, which removed that
copy of the function.  This got rid of the linker error messages.  Was this 
the correct thing to do?
 
Another thing, the program sometimes doesn't recognize console input, such
as when answering the wield weapon/quaff potion/etc prompts. What happens 
is that the prompt appears, then the hack window is made inactive (the title
bar gets ghosted).  After reactivating the window, the menus and mouse still 
work, but the menu selections and gadgets do not have any effect, and pounding
on the keyboard is ignored.  The only way to get out is to reboot.  
Any suggestions?

Overall, though, this version of Hack looks pretty good (better than the
1.0.0 pre-release we have here!  :-)  )

Thanks in advance for any responses.


-- 
Andrew Folkins        ...ihnp4!alberta!andrew    
 
"We humans think of ourselves as being rather good at reasoning, but at
best we perform about a hundred logical inferences a second.  We're
talking about future expert systems that will be doing ten million
inferences a second.  What will it be like to put a hundred years thought
in every decision?  Knowledge is power."  - Edward A. Feigenbaum