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Re: Minewsweeper solver


Article: 7785 of alt.hackers
From: js10039@thor.cam.ac.uk (J. Sullivan)
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: Re: Minewsweeper solver
Date: 8 May 1995 20:40:04 GMT
Organization: University of Cambridge, England
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Status: RO

james reese <jreese@leland.Stanford.EDU> wrote:
>
>The programmer who inserted this cheat clearly was a fan of the early
>text adventure games, as XYZZY is a magical word in many of those games,
>particularly the Zork series by Infocom.

I saw it first on ADVENT (Colossal Adcenture) on a PDP11/70...

ObHack:
 for(a[2]=0;a[2];a[a[2]]="0123456789abcdef"[(c>>(4*a[2]))&15])a[2]--;

John






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