Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site erix.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!mcvax!enea!erix!mike From: mike@erix.UUCP (Mike Williams) Newsgroups: net.sources.games Subject: Bug In Robots (*SPOILER*) Message-ID: <985@erix.UUCP> Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 11:14:48 EST Article-I.D.: erix.985 Posted: Fri Oct 25 11:14:48 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 29-Oct-85 00:40:09 EST Organization: L M Ericsson, Stockholm, Sweden Lines: 20 If you have installed the sonic patch there is an easy way to get as many points as you wish in Robots. Create your own termcap entry which is identical with the termcap you already use except for the li entry which you set to a small number (~10). The easiest way to do this is to use your own termcap file and let the environment variable TERMCAP point to it. You will now be able to play robots with a very small screen. If you survive to about level 12 you will find out that there are so many robots on the screen that you only have to zap about once per round to get a wall of scrap heaps arround you. Thus you can go on as long as you want. I got fed up after about 10 minutes when my score was as follows Top Twenty Robotists of All Time: Rank Score Name 1 204474677 mike: chickened out on level 64. It should be trivial to fix robots so that it doesn't work for screens where li * co < 1000 if you can be bothered to do so! --Mike Williams