@dazo @grumpygamer Funnily enough, I remember reading a letter to a Your Computer (the British one) in Februray 1985, lamenting that these new 64 KB monster machines made for sloppy programming and had taken all the fun out of computers. 😁
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Torbjörn Andersson
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Today's "I never saw Zork II do that before" bug is...Today's "I never saw Zork II do that before" bug is...
The JIGS-UP routine doesn't kill the player, it kills the current actor. That's a feature. But when a timer routine is run, it doesn't change the current actor back to the player.
So simply by talking to the robot, I can save myself from death by timed event.
I had hoped to use this on the Wizard, but apparently his action routine terminates too early. That too may be a bug, but one that cancels the first one.