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@title (The Witness: list of known bugs)
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@pageheading (DRAFT)
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@majorheading (THE WITNESS: LIST OF KNOWN BUGS)
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First release in production was thirteen (13), serial number 830524.
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These bugs are fixed in release eighteen (18), serial number 830910:
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@begin (itemize)
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You can GET IN or CLIMB IN anything and get trapped there!
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(For fun, try getting in the clock, the cat, other characters, etc.)
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GO THRU OFFICE DOOR will let you leave the office before the gunshot!
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This violates an important assumption and thus voids your warrantee.
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You can't pick up the handcuffs! (Moral: don't ever put them down.)
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If you arrest a non-person without specifying FOR what, the response
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"What a detective! ..." contains garbage.
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ASK MONICA ABOUT CANCER responds "Dad gave it to me ..."!
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ASK DUFFY ABOUT CORONER responds "They'll be here ..." even after they've
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been here.
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Even if the door is closed,
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you can go between the living and dining rooms, and from the tub room to the
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bathroom.
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You can SEARCH (another room) FOR (anything) from a distance.
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You can handcuff Monica with any tool (e.g. keys), not just the handcuffs.
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If you don't go in the house, but you wait on the office path until
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Stiles is on the office porch, then call his name and go to the porch,
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he's described as though the shot had been fired.
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If you don't go in the house,
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Stiles gives the wrong response to WHO AM I and WHERE IS (anything).
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Even if you're sitting down or hiding, you can still use some verbs on objects
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in the room that should be out of your reach.
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(Verbs: drink, eat, enter, handcuff, kick, kill, kiss, phone, put, put under,
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raise, read, slap, smell, take outside, walk around, walk to, and their
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synonyms.)
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Some commands that include the name of the room you're in will respond
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"(You can't see any ... here!)"
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Even if Monica is handcuffed, she will play another record in her
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bedroom, and she will push you away if you try to TAKE HER OUTSIDE
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or take her shoes or feel her.
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TAKE KEY FROM MONICA may respond "He doesn't have it."
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In rock garden, PUT (anything) ON ROCKS responds "There's no room."
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Comparing the muddy and hidden guns doesn't tell you that one barrel is short.
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If you're not in the office when Monica tests the button, you don't
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hear any bell and Phong doesn't go to the office.
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If you're not in the office when Phong shows up after Monica tests the
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button, and then @i(you) push a button anywhere, Monica gives her "I was just
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testing" speech when Phong arrives where you are.
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If you don't push the button before Monica fixes it, and you ask Duffy
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for a hint, he will not get to the hints in his list that follow the
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one about the button.
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When Phong first lets you in, ASK FOR LINDER responds "Mr@. Phong isn't
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here!" instead of "Mr@. Linder isn't here!"
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If you're in the driveway when Monica goes through the garage,
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she's described as being "down the hall to the east" instead of
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"off to the east".
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You can (try to) break, rub, kick, push, raise, or revive the cat
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(or other "global objects")
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even when you're not in the office.
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The moon lights up the yard even after sunrise.
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LOOK DOWN claims the ground is muddy, even if you're on the driveway, porch,
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etc.
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@end (itemize)
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These bugs are fixed in release twenty (20), serial number 831119:
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@begin (itemize)
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You can talk to people even if you're hiding.
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You can examine things in the room even if you're hiding. The program
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should allow it but warn you that you can't do a very good job of it.
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You can get the putty and wire in the office by trying to eat them,
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even before the gunshot.
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If you're in the hallway when Duffy and Stiles reach the living room,
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Duffy seems to disappear without notice.
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Characters claim no knowledge of "the gunshot" and "Mrs Linder's suicide".
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The English parser doesn't like "supply of wire" (in workshop)
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or "row of shoes" (in entry). They should be "other wire" and "other shoes"
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respectively.
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The abbreviation "z" for "wait" is missing.
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In the kitchen, "Take range and mixer" gives NO response. Ditto in the
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workshop for "Take hose and rake" and "Take blue wire and red wire" etc.
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(The range and the mixer are really the same object! So are the tools and
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the "other wire".)
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If you try to look through a window and there isn't one where you are,
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the response refers to the car window.
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There is a blank line before each prompt, even in SUPERBRIEF mode.
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The verb (or command) "what's" is spelled without apostrophes.
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Some objectionable words ("bastard", "God", etc.) appear in the Tandy version.
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If the only wires in the room are the standard white and black ones,
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you can (for example) examine them, but trying to (for example) take
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them gets you "(You can't see the wire here.)".
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If you're in Monica's room when she enters, TIE HER TO BED responds
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"Monica isn't here!"
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You can't read Monica's books; it should say that one important book
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is missing.
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If you try to handcuff Monica where there's nothing to fasten her to
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(but after she's gotten the hidden gun), she ends up half-cuffed.
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Linder can sit in his carved chair and push the butler's button,
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but you can't do the same thing after Monica fixes it.
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@end (itemize)
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These bugs are fixed in release twenty-one (21), serial number 831208:
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@begin (itemize)
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If you, for example, "ask Phong about Monica" when neither is present,
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the response is "Monica isn't here!" instead of "Phong isn't here!"
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The program occasionally will display garbage instead of a person's name
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if you refer to someone who isn't there.
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If you examine a window while outdoors, white wires are described but
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you can't refer to them.
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@end (itemize)
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