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Message: 4346
Author: john_elliott_uk
Date: 26/07/2004
Subject: Re: Some Tech. questions about patches in JSW64
--- In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, "Alexandra"
> I spoke of an 'extra lives every nth item' patch a while ago
I can get something like this into the game engine. Have a "Bonus"
> (which I
> still think is a good idea ;), but now I'm wondering if it can be
> done on a per-item basis. So that you have a flag or patch in the
> room which when checked, turns all items into extra lives.
flag on the room that makes collecting an item increase the count of
lives by one. It does mean that the player would have to collect all
the "bonus" lives to complete the game.
> As for switches, I dono... Reverse one of the block graphics and
JSW64:MM has switches so it's quite possible in theory.
> POKE a few cells of the room. That's gotta be fairly easy to
> program, right? This was not so important but I just figure it
> might be easy. You could even transplant the code from MM?
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