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Examining the mast doesn't work as intended #31

Open eriktorbjorn opened 5 years ago

eriktorbjorn commented 5 years ago

This is what happens if you examine the mast in the official release 22:

>EXAMINE MAST
This wooden beam is made of an extremely hard wood. It's 10 feet long and has
a diameter of 12 inches. Scratched into it is the following symbol:

     /!\

But when I try in this version, I get:

>EXAMINE MAST
There is nothing on the wooden beam.

What's strange to me is that the correct message is printed by DESCRIBE-BEAM-FCN, which is the DESCFCN for BEAM. So how's that supposed to be called when you examine it? I see nothing about it in the action routine, BEAM-FCN.

eriktorbjorn commented 5 years ago

I'm beginning to think that the Mac version of the game was never actually released, and that this version wasn't fully tested. Originally, the mast's description was in its TEXT property. It was moved to a routine to be able to use mono-spaced text. But someone acidentally put it in DESCRIBE-BEAM-FCN rather than BEAM-FCN.

Since this is how you learn the hieroglyph for the mast, I'd say this is at least somewhat serious.