Invisibility Potion bug in rhp 1.1 (RevivedHack for Palm OS)

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I'm playing this on a Zire 21. Anyway, I came across a random potion
and decided to try my luck and drank it. I became invisible...but
there was a problem! After I tapped 'more' the little line cursor was
up there by itself on the top left. I tapped it, I tapped different
places on the screen...nothing happened. My game had gotten stuck. I
could still leave the game and come back. When I entered in my name to
load the saved game, it was still doing the same thing. While I could
still start a new game by entering a different name, the frozen game
was taking up space and doing nothing. Might I suggest making it
possible to delete saved games separately from the main program?

 

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ryuujindw@yahoo.com (David Lorimer) wrote in message news:<c51dcdee.0406051038.2788839d@posting.google.com>...
> I'm playing this on a Zire 21. Anyway, I came across a random potion
> and decided to try my luck and drank it. I became invisible...but
> there was a problem! After I tapped 'more' the little line cursor was
> up there by itself on the top left. I tapped it, I tapped different
> places on the screen...nothing happened. My game had gotten stuck. I
> could still leave the game and come back. When I entered in my name to
> load the saved game, it was still doing the same thing. While I could
> still start a new game by entering a different name, the frozen game
> was taking up space and doing nothing. Might I suggest making it
> possible to delete saved games separately from the main program?

Hi, I'm the programmer of rhp.

The behavior of the cursor you described is normal and happens because
if the cursor were located on your character while you were invisible,
you would then know where you were 🙂

While invisible you can still move around and do all kinds of things,
and if you wait a few dozen turns, you will become visible again, with
the cursor safely back on your character. Don't give up so soon!

To delete saved games individually, just type the character's name at
startup, then quit the game with 'q'. These will show up in the score
record, however.