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Message: 1368
Author: john_elliott_uk
Date: 02/12/2000
Subject: Re: JSW/MM editor...
<< Way cool! How do i start?
>>intermediate stages. For title screens I'd use a paint program
By accumulating all the other programs to do the
rather than Notepad:
1. Create image with the GIMP,
save it in XPM format.
2. Use xv to convert it from
XPM to Spectrum +3 SCREEN$ format.
3. Use tapcat
(supplied with JSWED) to convert it from +3 SCREEN$ format
to .TAP.
<< I don't know any Speccy
programming languages.
I hear the games are written in
BASIC? >>
You're not going to get anywhere
unless you do know Spectrum programming languages. Using
Notepad instead of the Spectrum's line editor won't save
you any time or trouble in that respect.
Some
games are written in BASIC but most (including Manic
Miner and Jet Set Willy, to drag this discussion back
on topic) are written in assembly language. You can
certainly write Z80 assembly in Notepad; then the chain
would be:
* Write in Notepad.
* Use an assembler
(eg: Z80ASM) to convert to machine code.
* Use
tapcat to convert to the .TAP format.
- but you
still have to know *what* to write in Notepad :-)
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