PC HACK availability
Don Kneller%Langridge
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PC HACK 3.0
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Requirements
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This is an MSDOS version of UN*X HACK 1.03 written in Microsoft C
v3.0. It requires 320K ram, DOS 2.x or higher, 2 floppies or 1 hard
disk. It uses the ANSI.SYS driver for screen IO, so should be portable
to most MSDOS machines. It does work on DEC Rainbows! It was written
on an IBM PC with monochrome screen.
Features
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This is the complete UN*X HACK 1.03 with several enhancements:
1) Definable screen characters for the dungeon.
Works on the Rainbow too.
2) Numeric key pad (cursor keys) support for IBM BIOS compatible
computers (compatibility at the software interrupt level).
3) Support for RAMdisks, floppies, hard disks. If you have sufficient
RAM for a RAMdisk, the game is much faster and quieter, especially
for floppy-only systems.
4) Several options including pack sorting (by object class)
and pack order (to set the sort order), confirmation before
hitting tame or peaceful monsters, silent mode for turning
off the bell.
5) Protection from disk full errors (and collapsing dungeons).
6) Save files are portable between MSDOS machines.
7) Configuration from a file to reduce the number of environment
variables to 1 (which is also optional).
Availability
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PC HACK 3.0 is available by anonymous ftp from ARPAnet host
USC-ISIB in directory INFO-IBMPC. The executable is HACK30.ARC and
sources are HACK30S.ARC and HACK30S.DOC. Both of the ARC files were
created with ARC430.COM, and hence are binary files. Thus, when you
ftp them, make sure you use a binary mode (from our ftp program, I use
the command 'type tenex' to set binary mode). Also, if you use kermit
to transfer them to your PC, you must use binary transfer (the -i flag
in UNIX C-Kermit).
The sources are written for the Microsoft C compiler v3.0 and
depend extensively on structure assignment and passing, so there will
be quite a bit of work converting to a compiler that does not support
these. The large compiler model is used (> 64K prog, > 64K data).
Included in the sources is a 'make' program that I wrote. There is
a bug with the -n flag. You may run out of memory if there are too
many files to be made. The bug only exists when you do 'make -n'.
If you are actually executing the commands, there is no problem.
This bug has been fixed, and the updated 'make' program will be
supplied to anyone sending floppies.
I will supply executable and source to people who do not have
an ARPAnet connection. Send 1 *DSDD* floppy *formatted* for MSDOS (or
PCDOS) 2.x if you want the executable only, and 1 ADDITIONAL floppy if
you also want source. I cannot write DEC formatted diskettes!
The sources will be in ARChive form, so you will need ARC430.COM (supplied
on the source floppy) to unpack them.
If you send floppies, please send a SELF-ADDRESSED return mailer
with sufficient postage! If you do not supply postage, include $2 for
postage.
Thanks for your interest in PC HACK,
Don Kneller
2 Panoramic Way #204
Berkeley, CA 94704
USA
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Don Kneller
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