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Message: 2598
Author: filsoft_2000
Date: 10/02/2002
Subject: Re: The REAL Pause Bug
"Not being able to pause JSW does make it harder,
but crashing when you pause is not an acceptable
feature!"
Simple. Don't pause the game (or fix the bug yourself).
;-)
"It shouldn't be that hard to hack the game-engine so
that the pause-keys do nothing."
Indeed it is
not. A quick look at John Elliott's disassembly of JSW
(http://www.seasip.demon.co.uk/Jsw/jsw.mac target=new>http://www.seasip.demon.co.uk/Jsw/jsw.mac>) and a look at JSW with a Multiface produced this
quick-and-nasty poke: 35538,0 (changes LD B,2 to LD
B,0).
POKE 35538,47 is interesting - you can only unpause
the game if you press a jump key!
"Another
idea would be for pressing the pause-keys to cause you
to lose a life. Then you wouldn't have to reset the
game if you got trapped! ;-)"
That's not as
daft as it sounds; I may have a hacking session and
see what I can come up with.
I liked the
Prince quote, BTW! :-)
Phil
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