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From: trump@leland.Stanford.EDU (Michael Jason Lewis)
Subject: Re: Return to Zork: possible bug?
Message-ID: <1993Oct18.181341.24932@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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Date: Mon, 18 Oct 93 18:13:41 GMT
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In article <1993Oct18.162254.7341@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com> winalski@gemgrp.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski) writes:
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>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.
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I'll throw in my own bug here, 'cause it ain't a spoiler...

On my version (which is the CD-ROM one), typing an exclamation point (for
a saved game title, for example, but it also works in other places) crashes
the game completely.  strange, huh?

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

This is where we are too...it's the side of the ship in my version.  I don't
know what if anything is to be gained down there, but I have to assume that
there's something, since a shark eats you if you stay too long.

"Duh, I didn't feel a thing!"

- Mike Lewis
