Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!att!occrsh!rjd
From: rjd@occrsh.ATT.COM (Randy_Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Re: Fixes for the impossible wanderer screens.
Summary: wanderer screen 17 and report of Steve Shipway's bugfix
Message-ID: <459@occrsh.ATT.COM>
Date: 14 Nov 88 20:49:34 GMT
References: <5715@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Reply-To: rjd@occrsh.UUCP (Randy_Davis)
Organization: AT&T Network & Data Systems, OKC
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In article <5715@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> games@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Fun and Games) writes:
:       The changes to 13 and 17 seemed to me to be bigger though, with the
:only tough puzzle in 13 made relatively easy, and the corner puzzle in 17
:pretty much removed. I think there's still a bug in Randy's 17 too.

  Nope - I've solved it over 10 times now.  I did not post any of those without
testing them more than once....

:Screen 17 seemes to have three fatal flaws. There are the land mines and the
:rock dropped by the baby monster in the lower right hand corner, and the gold
:to the right of the teleporter (just how were you going to get that one
:Randy?).

  As I said, the screen 17 *I* posted works.  If you will look closely, you will
notice that I changed an '=' to a '-' on the right edge, enabling you to get
the gem without going through the teleport.

  I appreciate all the scrutiny my proposed changes have prompted.  My sole
intent was to make the impossible levels playable, with the exception of level
18, whose premise I personally did not agree with.  I was not necessarily
intending to make any of the levels easy.

  Steve Shipway sent me a letter telling me that there was a fix posted to
comp.sources.games.bugs and rec.games.misc that makes it so the baby monsters
walk over each other (instead of bouncing on each other into holding patterns).

I LIKE the sound of this fix, as it removes the problems I have with the baby
monsters and my reasons for posting the screen 18 "fix".  This should remove
one of the two ways that they get into holding patterns, the other way being
something moving after they are "locked" onto it.

I HAVE NOT SEEN THIS FIX YET.  IF IT HAS BEEN POSTED AND I MISSED IT, COULD
SOMEBODY PLEASE EMAIL COPY TO ME (to <backbone>!att.att.com!ocrjd!randy) ?

Thanks,
Randy Davis					UUCP: ...(att!)ocrjd!randy
						      ...(att!)occrsh!rjd