Re: Hints wanted with Bad Machine

[ross_presser@nospam.imtek.com (Ross Presser)]

On 22 Jan 1999 19:34:43 GMT, Admiral Jota <jota@shell2.tiac.net>
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> > I've managed to reach the ending where you escape the factory.  Now
> > I'm trying to find other interesting things.
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> So am I. I'll just respond to the questions that I have a good response
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> > 2. When I have awareness set to high and I get the energizer to kill
> > itself feeding me, it generates a system dump that includes some
> > apparent challenge/response pairs for the laser area.  But I've never
> > gotten any of those challenges.  Am I supposed to be able to figure
> > out the pattern from those three examples?
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> Yes. Try thinking about the sorts of operations you'd do to binary
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Cool!  I'd been trying to do them as hex *sheepish grin*  Actually
writing them on paper in binary makes it obvious.

> > 4. from the Index I've discovered that drones have a problem seeing me
> > if my temperature is below 20 degrees.  But I can't survive below 30
> > at all.  Any help for this?
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> I got stuck on this too, and had to ask Dan for help. The truth is, you
> can survive at temperatures lower than 30, but not as low as 10.

Aha.  Not obvious.  Being a digital machine, I didn't think about an
analog scale.



Thanks for the help!