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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 wrote:

1. I downloaded HexPat the other night, but it doesn't want to play
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?

I think you're doing something wrong. HEXPAT needs to be run from
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
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?

It sounds like the sort of thing that could be done with the patch
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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