Now, that's a BIG game
Thanks for the map!
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It appears you do have to go there, but it also appears I found a bug . Hopefully if we manage to play the game normal this will not occur or maybe I have to do something more.
There are several commercial games with fatal bugs which definitely not have been tested before releasing it commercially. Temple of terror (1987) being a known example where the locations at the beginning are a later addition in the game if you look at the game code and probably no one took the trouble to replay the entire game to see if everything was still working. Therefore not noticing they used the same flag for a puzzle. I know several others. It's unfortunetely not a rare thing,Canalboy wrote: ↑Fri Nov 26, 2021 1:12 amIt does raise the question of how a string of commercial software titles could have been okayed for release without being competently and thoroughly tested. I know it was still fairly early in the history of microcomputer software but basic production and marketing tenets should still have prevailed.
Yes I have come across several myself. I found two bugs in Sphinx Adventure that made the game unwinnable. Also in Steve Blanding's Demon Questtrilogy off the top of my head.Alex wrote: ↑Fri Nov 26, 2021 1:16 pmThere are several commercial games with fatal bugs which definitely not have been tested before releasing it commercially. Temple of terror (1987) being a known example where the locations at the beginning are a later addition in the game if you look at the game code and probably no one took the trouble to replay the entire game to see if everything was still working. Therefore not noticing they used the same flag for a puzzle. I know several others. It's unfortunetely not a rare thing,Canalboy wrote: ↑Fri Nov 26, 2021 1:12 amIt does raise the question of how a string of commercial software titles could have been okayed for release without being competently and thoroughly tested. I know it was still fairly early in the history of microcomputer software but basic production and marketing tenets should still have prevailed.