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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: Nethack
Message-ID: <6886@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: 24 Dec 87 06:10:50 GMT
References: <338@gaia.UUCP> <437@pcrat.UUCP>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Followup-To: comp.sources.bugs
Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
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As quoted from <437@pcrat.UUCP> by rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson):
+---------------
| In article <338@gaia.UUCP> jon@gaia.UUCP (Jonathan Corbet) writes:
| >I managed to build hack on my (Microport) system with no real trouble.  It
| >seems to run pretty well, for the most part.  However, the dungeon seems
| >to be very empty!  I don't find any of the neat sorts of things that I
| 
| I noticed this one with VENIX 2.3 on the AT, which has the AT&T compiler
| as Microport does.
| Wiz mode and a potion of object detection revealed that all the objects
| were up on the first line of the screen.  Not too accessable there!!!
+---------------

Check the definition of rnd().  Some work was done to make it use lrand48(),
but it was botched and the code ends up calling rand() in such a way as to
produce some possibly worthless values.  I don't remember which source files
were affected.
-- 
	      Brandon S. Allbery, Moderator of comp.sources.misc
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