Resource centre for ZX Spectrum games
using Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy game engines
Archive of the
Manic Miner & Jet Set Willy Yahoo! Group
messages
|
|
|
|
|
Message: 2618
Author: andrewbroad
Date: 16/02/2002
Subject: Re: JSW Save Routine
> Would someone care to hack JSW 128 sothat
> pressing pause saves the game? :-)
I would
care to (and also for 48K JSW - especially Geoff Mode
which crashes a lot on a real Spectrum), but it is not
gonna happen any time soon! ;-(
> I would
simply make Willy lose a life (but give
> him one
back)
Yuck.
> to save having to record where he
> was in
the room, where the guardians were, etc.
> The
item table and the room location (including
>
where Willy entered) and the number of lives
>
left and time remaining is all that would need
>
to be recorded, says he thinking this out as
he
> types this post...
Unfortunately these
data aren't contiguous, so it might as well save the
whole thing as save it in parts, or copy the data to be
saved to a separate data-structure (memory
permitting).
> The save could alternatively save the whole
game
> and negate the need of a load
routine.
This could well be fraught with unforeseen
difficulties - to do with runtime buffers, the way the items
are flagged as collected, etc...
> I can
remember a type-in listing at the Ultimate
> JSW
Fan Page (is that right?) which enabled you
>
to save a screenshot of JSW by pressing a key.
This was in Your Spectrum (6), August
1984:
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jimg/yr06/yr06_21.htm target=new>http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jimg/yr06/yr06_21.htm>
> Perhaps this could be adapted for a save
routine?
Perhaps indeed, although I anticipate complications, as
mentioned above...
--
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/>
|
|
|