A patch that fixes /usr/games/hack

2018-02-28 Thread tonypony76
The game /usr/games/hack is currently broken. http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=147343518631317 A patch that fixes /usr/games/hack is included below. The patch moves the hackdir from /var/games to a user-specified directory. Procedures for specifying the directory (either on the command line,

Another fix for /usr/games/hack

2018-03-04 Thread tonypony76
I recently wrote a patch that makes /usr/games/hack playable again. http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=151986187422137 But now I've noticed that hack crashes with a segmentation fault when the user requests the inventory list while playing a previously-saved game. I've discovered that when hack

Re: A patch that fixes /usr/games/hack

2018-03-05 Thread tonypony76
The following patch is a slight improvement of the patch that I posted on Thursday. In particular, this patch places saved games exactly where the man page says they should be placed. This patch, together with the patch that prevents segmentation faults (http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=1520208

Re: Another fix for /usr/games/hack

2018-03-10 Thread tonypony76
Today I have discovered a second segmentation fault in /usr/games/hack. In particular, if a game is saved while a potion of levitation is in effect, then the restored game may crash when the potion wears off. This problem is caused by the same sort of issue that caused the previously-reported segme