John Pritchett has just released a small bug fix for the DOS version of Tradewars. Straight from John, Here's what it does:
> The main bug it addresses is the alien record bug. Whenever it runs, it looks for aliens with maxed Corbomite and re-initializes those records. Every time a player kills an alien, the game creates a new one with the maxed corbomite. That means, to keep up with the problem, youâll need to run the repair program at least once a day. I donât see a problem with running it at startup or shutdown of each game session. Just add it to the batch file before or after the game runs.
> You can also capture the output to a file so you can keep an eye on what changes are being made. If youâre not familiar with this, you can follow the program with > to send output to a file, and >> to append output to a file.
> Also, not all reported situations are repaired. Iâm going to make a change where it says âfixedâ or ânot fixed.â That way, some situations that it canât automatically repair can be addressed in TEDIT by the sysop.