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Message: 2817

Author: andrewbroad

Date: 27/04/2002

Subject: Re: changed font, new quirky features

 

filsoft_2000 wrote:

Other technical innovations in Goodnite Luddite include the first
changed font in a 48K MM/JSW game (a Gothic character-set ripped
from Journeys End),

Not strictly true, as Henry's Hoard has a changed font! :-)

That may be so, but I don't recognise Henry's Hoard as a JSW game. In
my opinion, the game engine is just about different enough to be
classified as non-JSW, plus it wasn't even billed as JSW! ;-) And I
still haven't decoded the emulator-files (there are three versions)
enough to be able to type it into my real Spectrum! :-o

and cyan arrows. Plus some never-before-seen quirky features,
which I'm keeping under my hat to ensure that I will be the
first to exploit them... ;-)

In a public arena, perhaps... ;-)

I'm quite confident that not even you or sendy will independently
discover these trade-secrets! ;-) All I will say is that I would never
have discovered them if I used an emulator rather than a real
Spectrum... :-8

Of course I won't be able to be 100% sure in my novelty claims,
because I won't have typed all released MM/JSW games into my real
Spectrum by the time I release Goodnite Luddite! ;-) In fact I
stumbled across one of the features in a certain 48K JSW game, but
Goodnite Luddite will be the first game to exploit it deliberately.

--
Andrew Broad
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