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Message: 4169

Author: andrewbroad

Date: 03/05/2004

Subject: Re: Adjacent Ropes / Arrows / JSW64 (again)

 

john_elliott_uk wrote:

> andrewbroad wrote:
>> Alexandra wrote:
>>> I want to make a room with 3 or 4 of them in soon.
>>
>> That might be difficult, given the way ropes interact (because
>> they use 16 bytes in the current room's expanded guardian-list,
>> rather than the usual 8 bytes per guardian - i.e. they encroach
>> on the next guardian's data-space),
>
> Ah, then you want Adjacent Ropes. I've just added a new version of
> this patch to http://www.seasip.demon.co.uk/Jsw/patches.html ; this
> not only fixes references to IX+9, as the one in JSWED does, but to
> IX+11 as well.

Does this still allow non-swinging ropes, since it's the `bug' fixed
by Adjacent Ropes that actually causes them to be frozen?

> I only noticed today that the arrow guardian leaves gaps in its
> definition for a preceding rope guardian to use, so that arrows
> can go after a rope (as happens in the Beach).

Yes, the arrows have to go after the rope in the guardian-instance
list. If the rope was after the arrows, *it* would collide with
*them* and kill you, whereas arrows can only collide with white-ink
pixels (cf. Message 4087, which I at least did NOT receive by email).

> If the rope guardian can be fixed, then that leaves the
> possibility of extra arrow configuration. Hmmm.

Perhaps this could be used to give arrows a phase other than 256
time-frames, e.g. 128 as in Geoff Mode? Or perhaps just a colour-
attribute?

>> Another problem is that although the toilet is drawn in Room 27,
>> Willy is detected to hit it in Room 50! (My notes about the
>> toilet are in Message 3854.)
>
> Quite apart from anything else, there's a bug in JSWED when it
> comes to positioning the toilet; so if you're using JSWED, that
> could cause this or a similar effect.
>
> (Feel free to demand that I stop creating silly variants of the JSW
> engine and do something useful like fixing JSWED!)

JSW64 is a most impressive development - keep up the good work!

--
Dr. Andrew Broad
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/willy/

P.S. I forgot to mention one other difference between MM and
JSW64:MM - items in "The Vat" and "The Warehouse" have black paper.

 

 

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