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Message: 3847
Author: andrewbroad
Date: 15/12/2003
Subject: Re: Collision detection for JSW ropes / Dasse's Mr Willy
dasse68 wrote:
>My editors: Jet Set Willy Construction Kit and Manic Miner Screen
> wow! you really take down the willygames to the smallest pixel to
> check out how everything works. thats really great :) but which
> program do you use for all this?
Editor.
> and besides your own editors (I presume you are using them in yourMy Java toolkit SPECSAISIE has generic utilities for the manipulation
> own games) what more programs do you use?
of SNA and TAP files, plus some specific MM/JSW utilities (e.g. to
detect the Block Graphics Bug, list instances of a guardian-class,
list guardian-classes which use a given sprite-page, look up
horizontal and vertical guardian-classes for a given range of screen-
positions, laterally invert a given MM/JSW game... most of these will
be released with SPECSAISIE 1.3 next year).
> for example to edit the sounds etc..Since I haven't yet written a MM/JSW tune-editor, I currently write
the tunes by hand. I work out the notes on a piano or keyboard
(sometimes I code up a prototype using 128 BASIC's PLAY command to
get the rhythm right), then look up the data for the 64 notes in
Richard Hallas's tone-chart, then POKE in these data using a simple
BASIC program.
BTW, I just listened to the "Mr Willy" MP3
[http://www.jump.to/speccy ] for the first time, and it's brilliant!
I love the way you've sampled the `glint' when Willy loses a life,
and other sound-effects, and the tune just rocks. If only it could be
released as a single, it would clean up the Christmas number-one
position, and no doubt would attract a whole new generation of
fans! :-)
It's just another Manic Monday
I wish it was Sunday
[The Bangles, "Manic Monday"]
--
Dr. Andrew Broad
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/willy/
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/download/
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