Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site whuxlm.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!whuxlm!wws From: wws@whuxlm.UUCP (Stoll W William) Newsgroups: net.games.hack Subject: Re: Disappearing Diamonds. Message-ID: <869@whuxlm.UUCP> Date: Sat, 9-Nov-85 12:41:08 EST Article-I.D.: whuxlm.869 Posted: Sat Nov 9 12:41:08 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 09:06:08 EST References: <588@ark.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Whippany Lines: 16 > But now the strange thing : In a corner of the > room I'm in, I drop the diamonds to make myself lighter. Sofar I > should have got about 300 diamonds !!!! Now if I save the game and > later start it up again, several diamonds have disappeared !! > > Eric Valk - valk@ark.UUCP I am pretty sure there is a byte limit on the number of items in gem piles, rock piles, dart piles, arrow piles, etc. In other words, if you add one item to a pile containing 255 items, you will have a pile of 0 items. I have not tested this explicitly, but I've never been able to create a rock pile larger than 255 rocks. Also I have not verified this in the code. BUT I bet you that if you stack your diamonds in piles of 255 or less you will be ok. Bill Stoll, ..!whuxlm!wws