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Message: 4349

Author: john_elliott_uk

Date: 27/07/2004

Subject: Re: Conveyor ramps and other hybrid cells in JSW64

 

--- In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, "Alexandra"
wrote:

> I'm just checking, but am I right in assuming you can't 'mix'
> celltypes together like you can in conventional JSW rooms?
Presumably
> because of the new allocation method...
>
> Though I have to ask, /is/ there a way to make conveyor-ramps in
> JSW64? I didn't really use them that much, so I'm asking mainly out
> of technical curiosity...

I don't think there is, now that you come to mention it. I think I
can manage it with a couple of bits in the "room flags" byte - one to
say "ramps act like escalators", and one to say whether they act as
upstairs or downstairs escalators. This would, of course, affect all
ramps in the room.

 

 

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