At 22.36 12/01/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Well, I know I posted this once before, but I was _sooo_ looking forward
>to Piero's reply, and having not seen one, I sent the post to him (I
>thought!) at this address:
>
>pcavina@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>and it came back to me, "User unknown".
Because you forgot the dot (it's p.cavina)... hmmm, a dot and a programmer's
name, I've already heard this... ;-)
>The explosions are certainly better than none at all! They do look nice.
>Good job! I did notice one bug in this go around, however. When I killed
>the next to last green invader from the top line (that is, I had two green
>invaders left at the end, and shot one), both of the remaining invaders
>blew up. Hmmm...
>
>You know, that sounded bizarre, so I went back to duplicate it, shooting
>all the invaders minus two next to each other on the top row. This time,
>as I shot the next to last invader, the new board of invaders appeared and
>the final invader musta collided with one of the new ones and they both
>blew up. Sorry I haven't bothered to look at the source on this, but I
>think something strange is afoot at the Circle K.
This must happen because the program is checking missile/invaders collisions
even when the missile is used for the explosion. It should be easy to fix. Tnx!
P.
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