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From: andrew@garfield.UUCP (Andrew Draskoy)
Newsgroups: net.games
Subject: VAX ZORK bugs
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Date: Wed, 29-Jun-83 22:39:37 EDT
Article-I.D.: garfield.430
Posted: Wed Jun 29 22:39:37 1983
Date-Received: Sat, 2-Jul-83 02:16:45 EDT
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About two USENIX tapes ago, a version of ZORK (dungeon)appeared
(binaries only) which had been severely hacked to make it run in
4bsd demand load format.  The author of this version used different
data files from those that came with 4bsd.  The effect of all this
is a VERY fast version of ZORK.  There are two problems:

	1) I get a core dump whenever I try to PUT anything, and
	2) I always get dumped in the N-S passage from the round room
	   It doesn't seem to randomly deposit me anywhere else.

A while ago I tried, unsuccessfully, to get in touch with the author,
Daniel Strick.  Has anybody else out there running 4bsd tried to get
this (or any other, for that matter) version of zork running in VAX
native mode?  If so, did you have the bugs I found?  Did you fix them?

Any enlightening info. will be greatly appreciated.

				Andrew Draskoy
				{allegra, utcsrgv, inhp4}!garfield!andrew