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Message: 1959
Author: andrewbroad
Date: 20/02/2001
Subject: Re: firsts?
> invalid arrows which create and destroy platformsLI N E" in We Pretty.
Destroy: "T HEF A U LT Y
Create: In Bulgarian Requiem, after I'd typed in the
guardian class table and before I typed in the rooms, there was a floor-creating invalid arrow
in "Under the MegaTree". There are no instances of this guardian class in the Bulgarian
Requiem rooms, however.
BTW, there is also an uninstantiated pixel-height horizontal
guardian in JSW Ivy! :-)
> invalid arrows which turn blocks into deadly
blocks
> and then back again periodically
Presumably that's the same phenomenon as
above, with one arrow to put static nasty and another to put background?
>
earth/ramp fusion blocks
If `earth' is your term for `wall', then We Pretty ("DIA MOND B O
Z Y"). Stay men, nearby. We must caress SU's Mr. Dykes.
> invalid arrows which
'cut' a ramp in half,
> effectively making a hole in it (although a
> ghost
remains on the screen)
A second-order quirky feature which builds on background-putting
invalid arrows.
> diagonal guardians which wrap the vertical
> boundaries of
the screen and change the
> attributes of blocks on the screen (they
>
actually remove fire blocks so you can exit :)
That sounds very clever. I'm not really
familiar with diagonal guardians (JSW128 diagonal guardians, I take it, rather than Geoff Mode
diagonal guardians).
> invalid ramps - these can have drastic effects
> on
willy's movement. they can even cause willy
> to be dumped through a conveyor merely by
their
> presence :)
I presume you're alluding to ramps with Offset 218 = 255. It was
John Elliott who first posted about them here. There is an Offset 218 = 255 ramp in
Goodnite Luddite's "A SUNBURST NIGHT", but you've got until 26th June 2002 to beat me to that!
;-) However, I *do* have a novel quirky feature up my sleeve for Goodnite Luddite,
although at the rate you're going I worry that you might discover it yourself by then! ;-) It's
amazing what an unorthodox process of typing JSW games onto other JSW games on a real Spectrum
can reveal...
> invalid ramp air - chaos :)
I take it that's not just the
springy platforms seen in We Pretty and JSW(again)? (background colour = ramp
colour)
> arrows that don't collect objects (because of
> the 'black willy'
patch)
Arrows usually collect items because the items are drawn after the arrows, so if an item
collides with an arrow then it collects itself because the arrow has white ink. However, if
Willy is black then the items must collect themselves if they collide with black ink. The
arrows must also collide with black ink pixels (but the colour they appear as (still white?)
has nothing to do with the colour they collide with).
> possibly some more. i
may come back later with
> the ones i forgot.
YES!
--
Andrew
Broad
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