This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: Minesweeper solver
Article: 7799 of alt.hackers From: nriley@roadrunner.tiac.net (Nicholas Riley) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: Minesweeper solver Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 10:22:07 -0400 Organization: http://www.tiac.net/users/nriley Lines: 22 Approved: Not really, but it sure looks like it :) Distribution: world Message-ID: nriley-1105951022070001@roadrunner.tiac.net NNTP-Posting-Host: roadrunner.tiac.net X-PGP-Key-Fingerprint: D54BBE65 - D2A514F4B184496B832904EA44F209B X-PGP-Public-Keys: http://www.tiac.net/users/nriley/pgpkey.html X-Newsreader: Value-Added NewsWatcher 2.0b24.3+ Status: RO
In article <3oqm77$j2c@eccdb1.pms.ford.com>, cpierce1@cp500.pto.ford.com (Clinton Pierce (R)) wrote: >The cheat has been out for some time. It's a "xyzzy" key sequence (I'm not >going to give it out COMPLETELY--this is alt.hackers) and a colored dot will >appear on the desktop at position (0,0) which indicates if the currently- >pointed-to square is a mine. This "xyzzy" thing has been popping up everywhere...I was reading the ProTERM manual (for Mac), and on page 235, while it was talking about the macro language: Valid identifiers: _xyzzy i x27key_0034 sample_01_15 ObLameWaterCoolerHack: One of the water coolers doesn't have anywhere for the water to drain, so if somebody pushes the button to dispense water and doesn't hold a cup underneath, it starts to accumulate on the floor, and there is usually a large wet patch in front of the cooler, which has been annoying me for quite some time. There wasn't any convenient waste water pipes nearby I could stick the output in once I created a drain for it, but there was a pipe for the heating system a few feet away, and it didn't contain water that was extremely hot...you get the idea. <sabi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Nicholas Riley < > CI$: 72531,3633 <72531.3633@compuserve.com> < > nriley@roadrunner.tiac.net < > eWorld: Sabinasata <sabinasata@eworld.com> < -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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