Re: Hints wanted with Bad Machine

["Avrom Faderman" <Avrom_Faderman@email.msn.com>]

Very blatant spoilers follow:
Ross Presser wrote in message <36a9dfae.621034139@news.giganews.com>...
>On 22 Jan 1999 19:34:43 GMT, Admiral Jota <jota@shell2.tiac.net>
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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.


I can't seem to make this work.  I even got so lucky as to *get* one of the
challenges the Energizer put out, and *that* response didn't work.  Am I not
right that

response=11111011-challenge?

Does it change each game (in which case maybe I'm using a bad save game to
consult the energizer, but I replayed it once from the beginning and it said
the same thing)?  Is my syntax wrong?  I type

> transmit [number in binary] to mover

and the game says:

Mover::monitor:  ???
Monitor::mover:  msg_no

(essentially).

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks much,
Avrom