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From: dan@idis.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.games
Subject: Re: VAX ZORK bugs
Message-ID: <214@idis.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 3-Jul-83 20:29:38 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul  3 20:29:38 1983
Date-Received: Thu, 7-Jul-83 02:52:56 EDT
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Several bugs in the VAX native version of ZORK on the USENIX tape
have been fixed.  The major problems were the vax native random
number generator in the DECUS ZORK distribution (it wasn't very)
and the improper use of the "movtuc" instruction in the early
versions of the VAX printf() code.

I am willing to give a new ZORK binary to one person who
	1) sends me a mag tape in a stamped and self addressed
	   return envelope, and
	2) is willing to redistribute the binary to everyone
	   else who wants a copy (and provides a mag tape
	   in a stamped return envelope).

Perhaps I should provide a ZORK binary for the next USENIX tape.

		Dan Strick
		[mcnc|decvax]!idis!dan

		University of Pittsburgh
		833 LIS building
		135 N. Bellefield Ave.
		Pittsburgh, PA  15260

P.S. The ZORK source is available from DECUS.