Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!ucsd!ames!haven!cvl!brian From: brian@cvl.umd.edu (Brian Miller) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: PC OMEGA Bugs Summary: more bugs Message-ID: <3136@cvl.umd.edu> Date: 2 Sep 88 17:23:13 GMT References: <3251@homxc.UUCP> <689@proxftl.UUCP> <3133@cvl.umd.edu> <624@sdics.ucsd.EDU> Organization: Center for Automation Research, Univ. of Md. Lines: 37 In article <624@sdics.ucsd.EDU>, hartung@sdics.ucsd.EDU (Jeff Hartung) writes: > >In article <689@proxftl.UUCP>, markd@proxftl.UUCP (Mark Davidson) writes: > In article <3133@cvl.umd.edu> brian@cvl.umd.edu (Brian Miller) writes: > 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. I haven't had a chance to try the library, but I'll give it one tonight. > (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. > :-) I had that problem too, but solved it (I think). If you pray to all the gods, then walk into chaos, you will be protected the first time, and will have your level raised to about 5. Comes in handy for getting into the explorers club and other things. > 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? Hit the 'g' key. I still hit ',' quite a bit (damn HACK fixation). I find the inventory routine to be quite complex. Took almost an hour to get things into their proper slot. > --Jeff Hartung-- brian -- Has anyone seen my old friend brain?