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From: rjd@occrsh.ATT.COM (Randy_Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Re: wanderer2, screens 13,16,17,18,20
Summary: I don't quite agree...
Message-ID: <443@occrsh.ATT.COM>
Date: 8 Nov 88 15:42:29 GMT
References: <427@occrsh.ATT.COM> <438@occrsh.ATT.COM> <256@cstw01.UUCP>
Reply-To: rjd@occrsh.UUCP (Randy_Davis)
Organization: AT&T Network & Data Systems, OKC
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In article <256@cstw01.UUCP> meulenbr@cstw01.UUCP (Frans Meulenbroeks) writes:
[.....]
:screen 16: the corrected version send out by Steven Shipway is solvable.
:I'd suggest we use that one (it is harder).

  Huh??? I am all for using Steve's, yet I have not seen it (hence the
reason I posted my attempt at a fix)!!  Could some kind soul send me the fix,
especially if it is harder and does not use the bug of the little monster's
holding patterns?  Please???? - send to att.att.com!ocrjd!randy.

[....]
:screen 18: this screen IS solvable as distributed. Don't fix it.
:The looping of the S is in my opinion a feature and not a bug
:(if a monster wants to occupy a position that is already taken, it
:changes direction; seems fair).

  Yeah, I was sure that some people were going to feel this way.  I thought it
might be solvable, yet I saw no reason to try to outguess what I consider
a bug in the program (NO! - That's a feature!! :-).  I guess the rule *I*
think the little monsters should follow is to go straight until they hit
something, then go clockwise around whatever they hit, following the
perimeter.  Maybe I think they should be smarter than they are.  What does
the author Steve Shipway think? (it seems that none of my mail to him gets
through - perhaps posting will).

[....]
:screen 18 small hint: 
:Examine what causes the problem. 
:Try to solve it using the same techniques.

Yes, but it is worth it???  We just disagree on this one...

:Frans Meulenbroeks        (meulenbr@cst.prl.philips.nl)
:	Centre for Software Technology
:	( or try: ...!mcvax!philmds!prle!cst!meulenbr)

Randy Davis					UUCP: ...(att!)ocrjd!randy
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