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Message: 4151
Author: john_elliott_uk
Date: 01/05/2004
Subject: Re: a couple questions regarding the recent developments in JSW-eng
--- In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, soa1000
> 1. I downloaded HexPat the other night, but it doesn't want to play
I think you're doing something wrong. HEXPAT needs to be run from
> with me. Whenever I run hexpat.exe, it opens for a second and then
> closes itself down again. Am I doing something wrong, or is WinXP
> just not agreeable to the program?
the command line, passing filenames as arguments. Put HEXPAT, the .HEX
files and JSW in a directory together. Then open a command prompt, CD
to that directory, and type the appropriate HEXPAT command.
> 2. With the newly expanded experimental room formats that have been
It sounds like the sort of thing that could be done with the patch
> developed, and in the case that these formats should be made editable
> in JSWED, is there any likelihood of a patch option in the editor
> which allows for adding Wibble, Wobble, Jiggle and/or Mono effects
> (mainly Wibble, which probably has the most potential) to individual
> rooms, or would that be technically unfeasible?
vector system. The problem then would be getting some sort of working
patch mamager into JSWED. It actually needs quite a sophisticated
linking loader, which could combine patches and move them about in
memory.
If you only wanted the effect for some rooms, you wouldn't need the
upside-down death screen or title screen, would you? That gets rid of
most of the complexity straight off.
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