Ballyhoo
- SET RADIO TO RADIO crashes the program. Frotz exits with, "Fatal error:
Stack overflow."
- LOOK OUT DOOR or WINDOW where there is one causes a crash. The
Infocom interpreter exits with the message, "Fatal error: Illegal operation",
whereas Frotz says, "Fatal error: Call to non-routine".
- If the bucket contains something other than water, then DRINK FROM BUCKET
says, "midget car backfires loudly and comically." in the Infocom interpreter.
This may seem like yet another of Ballyhoo's sarcastic error messages
(although missing a "The"), but it's really a severe bug. Frotz exits with
the message, "Fatal error: Call to non-routine".
- If you're on the tightrope or one of the platforms, you can THROW
parts of your body OFF PLATFORM, including HAND, HEAD, and BACK. You get,
"It falls to the ground below."
- If you don't touch the keister when you first find it under the table, then
after Billy Monday runs off with it, if you LOOK UNDER TABLE it's still there.
Now you can pick it up, but it doesn't show in your inventory until you drop
it and get it again. If it's the only thing you're carrying, then INVENTORY
says, "You have".
- If you have the ash tray, then you can PUT ASH IN BUCKET (or even ON one of
the bunks), leaving the ash tray empty. If you do this and then LOOK IN ASH,
then you're told you've found the scrap of newsprint, but it appears in the
ash tray rather than where the ash is. This works even if you've already left
the ash tray behind, carrying the ash in the bucket, although you can't go
back and get the newsprint.
- If you're on the tightrope or one of the platforms and you're holding
the balloon, you can PUT HELIUM ON GROUND. You get, "It falls to the ground
below.", and the helium object is moved to Performance Ring (It's invisible,
naturally).
- If you're carrying the mask inside the bucket, then WEAR MASK puts it
on but leaves it in the bucket.
- At Walking a Tightrope, although dropping anything moves it down to
the ground, EMPTY BUCKET drops its contents right there. If you then continue
moving across, everything seems to move with you; it's really a single location.
- When you're holding Comrade Thumb, you can DROP his daisy or uniform,
although they're untakeable and don't show in the room description.
- When you're hiding inside Prop Tent to listen to Munrab and the detective,
trying to GET anything visible gives away your presence, even if it can't be
taken or you're already carrying it.
- You can CLOSE HEADPHONES, but you can't OPEN them.
- If you are by Tina, at the opposite side from the radio, then GET ALL FROM
TINA says nothing but, "transistor radio:". EMPTY TINA gives, "The transistor
radio: [You can't see Tina here.]"
- After you get the monkey off your back, if you go to In the Wings where the
lone hawker is waiting, then GET ALL FROM HAWKER gives a response that begins
with, "refreshment: The only remnant of all is ground into the hawker's
uniform."
- If your ticket is open, PUT something IN TICKET says, "There's no room in
the your ticket for the [object]."
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