Re: Non-directional shooting

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From: eug... Eugene Leung
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 22:26

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In article <3l9lcq$d...@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>,
   mku...@prairienet.org (mike j. kulas) wrote:
>Robert H. Owen (bob...@flagstaff.princeton.edu) wrote:

>This is a bug.  We allowed them to fire a little different than the
>direction in which they're facing to make the code simpler and less
>CPU-intensive.  But they're not supposed to do what you've described
>(though I've seen it happen).
>
>Mike Kulas
>Parallax Software

It also makes that infamous teleporting robot at the end of level 7 all the 
more annoying! It seems to be able to fire at you no matter what direction 
its facing or what direction your heading.

Ciao, Eug

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Date: 28 Mar 1995 22:26:24 GMT
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