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Message: 4081
Author: andrewbroad
Date: 16/04/2004
Subject: Re: Changing Willy's colour
carlwoffenden wrote:
>Okay, to be pedantic: it /does/ change Willy's colour, but not in
>> This doesn't actually change Willy's colour
>
> As I said, useless poke... As for it not changing Willy's colour,
> the code snippet is from the only place where the attributes are
> set.
the simple way that people might imagine, i.e. the value you poke
into 38445 (JSW) or 37486 (MM Bug-Byte) is the OR-mask rather than
the actual INK colour of Willy.
> Geoff Eddy's code for changing colour (based on JSW code at #95F8)It doesn't, as can be observed in "Good Skunk" in _Willy Takes a
> doesn't look to take into account the ramp's y offset, BTW.
Trip_. The ramps in that room are yellow, so Willy's feet correctly
appear yellow in that square, but appear white in the square to the
left of the ramp.
--
Dr. Andrew Broad
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/willy/
P.S. To correct a typo I made in Message 4079, the binary code for
yellow is of course 110, not 101 (cyan).
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