Ambrosia Software Web Board: BUG FOUND - in Cythera - Ambrosia Software Web Board

A new bug has been found,
Improving your body points in Cythera can be important, becuse it increases your heath points, how much you can carry, and more. If you use a cheating program like pandora's box, or Ace or you just train with Alarlic as you improve body your health starts to improve, if your health gets to the max (255) you can still train for health but the max health won't go over 255 it will start over around 13. This bug also go's for magic, if you improve to much in mind it will also start over.


You can still get a full version of Pandor's box,
for more information at [url="http://"mailto:brian6@bellatlantic.net"]mailto:brian6@bellatlantic.net[/url]brian6@bellatlantic.net


------------------
Ring Of Recharge
My Site [url="http://"http://evilzz.net/mrbrian/"]http://evilzz.net/mrbrian/[/url]
Sign up for the Cythera Webring at:Yahoo Webring

This is because no one playing Cythera honetly would get that much health. The reason this bug happens is because an "unsigned char" type of variable is being used. The maximum value it can store is 255 (since it also has 0). Therefore, once it goes past 255 it "wraps" back to 0.

------------------
Bronze: the other gold metal.  | |  Cretan Bronze Robot: Bronze Trance Robot
Bacchus Publishing: [url="http://"http://www.ambrosiasw.com/cgi-bin/vftp/show.pl?product=evo&category=guides&display=date&file=ChroniclesByJake101.sit.hqx"]Chronicles by Jake101: the unposted chapters[/url], [url="http://"http://users.erols.com/alkrauss/Once_Again.html"]Once Again: on the web.[/url]
Bacchus Freeware: Olympus Wars, a plugin for EV:N.

Quote

I think you mean an "unsigned int" or an "unsigned short"

its an unsigned int, a short is can go up to 32,767

------------------
How to use a tooth pick: Hold stick near center of its length. Moisten pointed end in mouth. Insert in tooth space, bkunt end next to gun. use gentle in-out motion.
This message brought to you by the Campaign to Save the Humans. We bid you farewell

Yeah, it's probobly an unsigned int, which can go up to 255. A regular, signed int can only go from -128 to 128. Talos, their are great C programing classes at [url="http://"http://www.codewarrioru.com"]www.codewarrioru.com[/url]

------------------
It needs more detail.
(Famous Last Words #175)

Wait - we're all wrong. A signed short goes from -32768 to 32768. A signed int is, in C, the mostly the same. - Tycho and Myself are wrong.

No common C data type other than char is limited to one byte (0-255).
So, Talos is right, eh? Well, I don't know, maybe. char is normaly used to store a single letter, but maybe it can be used for other things, I don't know. I do know that in Cythera's saved-game format, you can only give yourself 255 obsidian at a time with HexEdit. (A data-fork editor, not a prissy luser-proof saved game editor!)
-

------------------
It needs more detail.
(Famous Last Words #175)

Chars are only represented as chars -- underneath, they're numbers.

For example,

int x = 2;
char z = 'D';
x = z + x;

Is completely legal -- if I wanted to bother, I could find out what number represents 'D' and then find the sum...but I don't want to bother!

------------------
Fortress of Die Nacht: An upcoming game from Aviary Productions.
[url="http://"http://www.aviaryproductions.f2s.com/downloads.html"]Go take a look![/url]

Quote

It could be an array of 255 slots, though I doubt it. And GB, you can add ints to chars? Or would it add the ASCII value to the value of the int?

------------------
"I'm a controversial figure. My friends either dislike me or hate me."

Quote

Well, in the particular case he mentioned, since x is an int, what he wrote will add the ASCII value of 'D' to x.

------------------
Mike Lee (Firebird)

Chars can store numbers. I'm taking a C++ class right now and I am learning ALL about that.

------------------
Long Live Apple! Long Live the Mac!
Praise <First Thought//Giver-of-Will>!

Quote

Heh, we skipped that part (or I missed it last year) and went ahead to fiddle with 2D arrays...hence the question.

But, that would make sense, '3' is a character after all...

------------------
"I'm a controversial figure. My friends either dislike me or hate me."

In C-
char: -128 to 127
unsigned char: 0 to 255
short int: -32768 to 32767
unsigned short int: 0 to 65535
long int: -2^31 to 2^31 - 1
unsigned long int: 0 to 2^32 - 1
int: depends on system, never longer than long int, never shorter than short int

As a computer science major, I work with C on a daily basis during the week. So Talos was right in the first place, an unsigned char is being used.

------------------
Slayer's guide to Cythera:
[url="http://"http://www.macclassics.com/cythera/cythera.htm"]http://www.macclassi...era/cythera.htm[/url]