(YET ANOTHER) INFOCOM BUGS LIST UPDATE

         Compiled by C.E. Forman and Eileen Mullin

The Lurking Horror

* If you ask the hacker about the keyring or a single key, the
response goes like this: "'I've accumulated a few keys over the
years.  I'm a licensed locksmith, which helps. I can get into any
room at Tech.' He pulls the keyring out on its chain, and *shows
off a key you hadn't noticed before*." This happens every time you
repeat the question, even if you already do know about the master
key.

* Give the Funny Bones to the hacker and he will swallow them.
However, the Bones remain in your inventory, closed and untouched.

* You are able to go through the login procedure on the PC more
than once. If you enter the wrong values while the PC is already
up and running, the response goes as usual: "Invalid Login, Login
Please". "x pc", on the other hand, shows that the computer still
executes its current task.

* The behavior of the PC after your returning from the 'stone-
scene' isn't consistent. The command "x screen" produces the
reasonable reply "There's nothing recognizable on the screen", but
"x pc" still answers "On the screen you see a menu box". In
addition, the help key doesn't recognize that the pc has gone west
and works as before.

* If you let the hacker take over your chair during the debugging
sequence, then go south and return north to the terminal room, the
hacker seems to be stuck to the plastic chair. The game, however,
describes him as sitting on his own office chair.
      -- Martin Braun

Enchanter



* If the turtle or adventurer encounters the hideous shape that
haunts the Banquet Hall and Library, the player receives notice of
their fate, as if it was his own.
     -- Graeme Cree

Moonmist

* Bolitho will always ask if you are the famous young detective on
a certain turn, even if he has already told you so on a previous
turn, or even the same turn!  As a result, this odd exchange can
be generated:

>ASK BOLITHO ABOUT ME
"You're [your name], the famous young detective.  Bolitho coughs
diffidently, and asks [your name]?  Am I right in assuming that
you are the well-known young American detective?
     -- Graeme Cree



Seastalker

* If you try to use the words RESTART, RESTORE, VERSION, or
$VERIFY as either your first or last name, the program will regard
them as commands, not names, and react accordingly.  This can be
very interesting with VERSION, since the player's name is a part
of the game's title.  If you try to use VERSION as your last name
(i.e. JOE VERSION), the output from the version command will list
the games title as "SEASTALKER:  JOE --- AND THE ULTRAMARINE
BIOCEPTOR".  If you try to use VERSION as your first name, the
title is "SEASTALKER:  --- --- AND THE ULTRAMARINE BIOCEPTOR."
     -- Graeme Cree

Sorcerer

* Belboz's journal can be opened with the key, but cannot be
closed.  If you try, you get a message saying "It's already open."
This was fixed by the LTOI1 version.



* In early versions, you could open the chest with a Rezrov spell,
although you would fail to gain points by doing so, and thus be
unable to finish with a perfect score. Also, in some versions,
Spell books were ruined by water, but scrolls were not.
     -- Graeme Cree

Starcross

* In some versions, you can turn off the beam of energy in the
Laboratory by typing "BEAM, OUT", generating the reply "The beam
leaves the room."

* The bunk on the Starcross is not openable, yet if you try to PUT
THE TAPE LIBRARY IN THE BUNK, you will get the response "The bunk
isn't open."
     -- Graeme Cree



Suspended

* Have Waldo get the four-inch cable and be incapacitated.  Have
Poet drag him to Alpha Repair to be fixed, and send them back to
the Primary Channel, this time letting Waldo get zapped.  If Poet
LOOKs, he will see a non-functional Waldo in the room, while Waldo
will see a non-functional Poet.
     -- Graeme Cree

Zork I

* The container bug with the sack and bottle have indeed been
fixed in the Solid Gold Version.  However, there is another
container bug that exists even there.  If you put the coffin in
the raft, then the raft in the coffin, you will get a message
saying that there is no room.  However if you put the raft in the
coffin first, THEN the coffin in the raft, the game will crash on
the next turn.


* In early versions, the command "HIT MIRROR WITH SWORD" will
generate responses like "The mirror parries", or "The mirror dies
in a cloud of sinister black fog."

* In early versions, the command "GIVE AXE TO TROLL" will generate
a response like:  "The troll accepts your gift, and not having the
most discriminating taste, eats it.  The troll, disarmed, is
cowering and begging for forgiveness in the guttural language of
the trolls."

* In early versions, if you give the troll to himself, he eats
himself and disappears (though he still bars you from leaving the
room).

* In early versions, if you give the troll to the thief, the thief
puts the troll in his bag.  When the thief is killed, the troll
appears and blocks all exits.
     -- Graeme Cree


* In the old version of Zork I that I played, if you knock the
thief unconscious and try to take his stiletto, the game would say
that it was "red hot" and you drop it immediately -- obviously
some sort of protective magic.  If, like me, you insisted on
trying to be merciful, you could "PUT STILETTO IN SACK" (for
example) and it would let you. When the thief wakes up, though, he
continues to attack you with the stiletto!
     -- B.J. Parker











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