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Aunc.1799 net.games.rogue utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!unc!smb Thu Feb 4 12:47:29 1982 Killed by a UNIBUS on level 18 ARRGGGHHH!!! Maybe some kind soul could write some sort of checkpointing scheme -- not to save the game across crashes; that would open too many security holes, I'd guess -- but to at least note your current gold content and level, neither or which are updated very often. Then a recovery program could make entries in the score file saying "Killed by a VAX on Level 26", maybe even granting a 10% bonus. (Then a *real* hacker could write a program that invokes analyze(8) on the dump to isolate what *really* killed folks -- "Killed by a FooBar disk controller", or what have you.)

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