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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:9734 comp.os.386bsd.bugs:2182 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.clark.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!bhiksha From: bhiksha+@cs.cmu.edu (Bhiksha Raj) Subject: Re: Games not saving? (Bus Error) Message-ID: <Co20MK.KFL.3@cs.cmu.edu> Sender: news@cs.cmu.edu (Usenet News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: speech1.cs.cmu.edu Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon References: <2nji7s$4no@sylvester.cc.utexas.edu> <2nt4kd$m1@cynjut.ogisd.ess.harris.com> Date: Sun, 10 Apr 1994 17:30:20 GMT Lines: 26 Charlie Root <root@cynjut.ogisd.ess.harris.com> wrote: >In article <2nji7s$4no@sylvester.cc.utexas.edu>, >Vax <vax@sylvester.cc.utexas.edu> wrote: >>The adventure-type games rarely save properly. Either hack or rogue >>gets a ``Bus Error'' shortly after getting a lock. >>Larn's scoreboard doesn't work. >> > >In the early days of NetBSD/FreeBSD there were problems with the games >breaking in strange and wonderful ways. MOst of these problems have >been fixed in recent releases of the two systems. How old are your >games/how old is your system? > I'm running netBSD 0.9 and I gete the same error - hack gives me a bus error on saving. Rogue gives me a lock error while quitting Id posted this question earlier, but got no satisfactory reply (tho chrles hanumm did promise to look into the matter - any progress charles?) I'd try to debug it, only I deleted the source and dont have the disk space to put it back on (games are the least of my worries - Im using the machine for a lot of crunching and its been behaving admirably :-) bhiksha