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From: ron@wjvax.UUCP (Ron Christian)
Newsgroups: net.games
Subject: ungrateful mangy rabid dog in hack
Message-ID: <302@wjvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 4-Jan-85 14:39:27 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan  4 14:39:27 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 7-Jan-85 02:25:33 EST
Organization: Watkins Johnson, San Jose, Calif.
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(Since hack is a variant of rogue, shouldn't this be in net.games.rogue?)

      milord Oliver  killed on level 2 by a little dog called spot

This is both a warning and a question.  I haven't delved into the source
yet, but if anyone else has and can answer this, I'd be grateful.

I'm tired of being killed by that damn dog.  Ungrateful wretch, you feed
him and care for him, even give him a name, and if you go down a level without
him, he turns on you when you come back to get him.  Even if 'spot' goes
down to the next level by himself (via a trap door) he's gone rabid by
the time you follow.  Does anyone know if there is a way to win back
the affections of the little mutt?  Both times he attacked me I didn't
have a tripe ration handy, and so couldn't try feeding him.

I like hack, although it's voracity seems a little extreme.  Me, a total
winner in 3.6 and 5.3, have yet to get past level 3.  Disgusting!  :-)

One mild complaint:  Hack insists that your terminal have the termcap
parameter 'ce', clear until end of line.  Not all otherwise usable
terminals have this capability.  The old Infoton I'm using now, for
instance, works fine with vi and our other four versions of rogue, but
I can't play hack on it.  This is silly.  I can see using the parameter
if it's present for display speed, but give us old timers a break as
well.  I guess I'll have to hack it myself.

This game is the greatest thing since sliced milk.  I guess I can
put up with a few minor bugs.  I'll never play regular rogue again.

Except on the Infoton....
-- 

	Ron Christian  (Watkins-Johnson Co.  San Jose, Calif.)
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