Question about The Pit. How do you become Immortal?
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GoldenArmada · 2017-04-26 08:06

I know this game hasn't been played by most in a long while.

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RealDeuce · 2017-04-26 10:23

You get above level 500.

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GoldenArmada · 2017-04-26 21:20

Done.  Strangely, I never once fought Thor.  Is that just random
chance?  Odin, I fought many times as well as Loki.

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RealDeuce · 2017-04-26 21:39

It's supposed to be random... but old amateur code is notorious for
biased RNGs.

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GoldenArmada · 2017-04-26 23:30

Does anyone have the source for it?  I noticed someone took over the
project after James Berry died.

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RealDeuce · 2017-04-26 23:51

Doug from [BBSFiles.com](http://bbsfiles.com/main.html) has the source
to an older version (3.53 I think).  4.x was lost.  I did a port to
Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Windows in 2006 which should be
available from BBSFiles, and I know someone was working to update the
feature set to 4.x (especially inter-node battles).

That was years ago though, I'm not sure what came out of that work.

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GoldenArmada · 2017-04-27 02:11

Really? You did the ports, that's awesome.
I been tryin' to track down a man by the name of Brian Grove who did
the hint document for the game.  Lived in Atlanta, moved to Texas.
Ever heard of him?

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RealDeuce · 2017-04-27 08:32

I don't think I've heard of him, though I may have read the hint
document at some point.  :-)

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cloverskull · 2017-04-30 07:25

I can't find any of this on BBSFiles.com - I'd be curious to check out
the source and the various ports. Is there somewhere else I can poke
around?

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RealDeuce · 2017-04-30 22:32

Most of the doors on BBSFiles.com are ones that Doug paid money for
the source for, so he doesn't generally give that away.

Your best bet is to email Doug.

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tharic99 · 2017-05-18 21:14

Not sure if it's my connection here or not, but I can't even access
[BBSFiles.com](http://www.bbsfiles.com) currently.