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From: Keith Bonawitz <aule AT geocities DOT com>
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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 02:06:53 GMT
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Richard Chappell wrote:

[a bunch of stuff was snipped...]

> >  *ptrPLAYER=Player1;
> But the problem is... whenever I run the game, it stuffs up!
>
You need to replace lines like the ones above with ones of this form:

ptrPLAYER=&Player1;

The problem is ptrPLAYER points to nowhere, so bad stuff happens when you try to dereference that pointer using *ptrPLAYER,
especially because you then try to write data there.