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Message: 2617
Author: andrewbroad
Date: 16/02/2002
Subject: Re: use of the pause-key
>> It shouldn't be that hard to hack thepause-keys do nothing.
>> game-engine so that the
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> 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).
With POKE 35538,0, holding pause makes the jumping sound come out
distorted! ;-)
POKE 35538,0 doesn't stop the auto-pause when you wait for a JSW-minute
(256 time-frames) with the music off. This would allow a player to pause the game while
(s)he is away from the Spectrum, whilst doing away with judicious use of the pause-key to
help crack a difficult room.
However, judicious use of the pause-key is an integral
part of playing certain Broadsoft rooms such as MM:Hobbit's "Fire and Water", JSW:LOTR's
"The Land of Shadow" or Goodnite Luddite's "THE SACRISTY"! :-)
The pause-key gives
such rooms a chess-like quality, which greatly enhances the game-experience
IMO.
--
Andrew
Broad
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~broada/ target=new>http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~broada/>
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~broada/spectrum/ target=new>http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~broada/spectrum/>
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~broada/spectrum/willy/ target=new>http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~broada/spectrum/willy/>
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~broada/spectrum/download/ target=new>http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~broada/spectrum/download/>
P.S. I wrote "NITE LAW" yesterday, bringing the total of written-up rooms in Goodnite
Luddite to 25.
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