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From: hartung@sdics.ucsd.EDU (Jeff Hartung)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: PC OMEGA Bugs
Message-ID: <624@sdics.ucsd.EDU>
Date: 2 Sep 88 00:26:31 GMT
References: <3251@homxc.UUCP> <689@proxftl.UUCP> <3133@cvl.umd.edu>
Reply-To: hartung@sdics.UUCP (Jeff Hartung)
Organization: U.C. San Diego, Institute for Cognitive Science
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>In article <689@proxftl.UUCP>, markd@proxftl.UUCP (Mark Davidson) writes:
>> If I remember correctly, the README file included with PC OMEGA (specific
>> to the PC version, not the generic README!) specifies that going into a
>> house and trying to leave the house will cause the game to crash. 
>> [...]
In article <3133@cvl.umd.edu> brian@cvl.umd.edu (Brian Miller) writes:
>	I remember reading that also but, being the adventurous type,
>	went ahead and tried it.  In fact I've done it several times,
>	and have not yet had it crash.  There was also a posting about
>	healers not deducting money and not increasing hit points.

I haven't encountered these problems either.

>	                         However, the problem with the casino
>	does seem exist (does not increase A.U. after winning at the
>	slots).

I didn't encounter this yet (as I haven't played the casino yet), but I
did have a problem at the library.  After researching some magic, I was
asked if I would pay.  I hit 'y' and the game responded "No payee, no
study..."  After repeating this a few times, I hit 'n' and it responded
"You Philastine!" and then proceded to deduct the money anyhow.

Also, I have had some game crashes when I requested help.  It seems
that if I ask for help with "everything" the game crashes, not being
able to find a file (I think, messages scrolled by on the screen very
quickly and I didn't care to repeat the action to discover what the
problem was.)

(I did manage to set a new high score by walking into pure chaos and
achieving maximum entropy, moving up several levels just before I died.
:-)

The un-rogue-like feature that I can't figure out (which prompted the
"help everything" request) is how to pick up dropped objects.  If I
move onto the space, nothing happens.  If I hit the ',' character, I
get prompted for how long I want to rest for.  I haven't spent much
time on Omega yet, obviously, but can anyone answer this simple
question?


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