On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Jim Leonard wrote: > Stephen S. Lee wrote: > > > I've never seen a for-sale copy of an Angelsoft game for IBM other than > > the two that I own, High Stakes and The Mist, which appear to be the most > > common titles for IBM. The Mist seems to be particularly common, but that > > seems to be balanced by much higher demand. > > BTW, the IBM version of The Mist is flawed -- there is a typo in one of the > verb actions you need to perform, so it is impossible to win the game without > knowing what the typo is!
Well, I was able to solve the game just fine, using the IBM version. :P I think I've tried both the Addams solve and the Simon solve, and both of them work fine on the IBM version of The Mist. (This assumes that the Underdogs copy hasn't been tinkered with, though; that's what I was using.) Angelsoft games have a picky parser to begin with, so maybe that was the problem? Playing guess the verb is never fun. -- Stephen > (For those familiar with other platforms, is this > the same on them? I would imagine a typo in the dictionary would > propogate...) A hacker friend of mine clued me in to this fact when we were > talking about the game circa 1996 and he said, "Yeah, the one with the typo? > I dumped RAM with debug.com and found it." So THAT'S why I was never able to > finish it! :) > -- > Jim Leonard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.oldskool.org/ > Want to help an ambitious games project? http://www.mobygames.com/ > Or check out some trippy MindCandy at http://www.mindcandydvd.com/ > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to > the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' > Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
