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From: winalski@gemgrp.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski)
Subject: Return to Zork: possible bug?
Message-ID: <1993Oct18.162254.7341@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com>
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Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1993 16:22:54 GMT


I've discovered what may be a bug in Return to Zork, and I'm wondering if
anybody else out there may have seen it.

***** SPOILER WARNING *****

If you haven't encountered the ship-in-a-bottle problem, don't read any
further.......













































When on the deck of the ship in a bottle, facing the cabins, go right.  Upon
clicking the mouse on the arrow, the screen goes black and says "Hard I/O
Error 30".  From then on, there's no background graphics displayed--just a
black screen.  Arrows indicating possible directions still show up and they
seem to work if you click on them, but the background doesn't change.  Also,
at one point what looks like a manta ray or maybe a shark shows up and shortly
afterward I end up dead, but I can't see why I was killed.

Has anybody else seen this problem?  Is this a bug or is the copy of the game
on my hard disk corrupted?  Is there anything to be gained by exploring that
part of the bottle?  The rest seems to be OK, so I can work around this
problem if there's nothing useful out there.

--PSW
