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Message: 4489

Author: john_elliott_uk

Date: 01/10/2004

Subject: Re: Abusing Items and alternate endings

 

--- In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, andrewbroad
wrote:

> Sacrilege!

So it's sacrilege to change the end condition, but not to introduce
vertical conveyors? :-)

> SLA A ; shift it left 6 times...
> SLA A
> SLA A
> SLA A
> SLA A
> SLA A ; ... so that it's in the BRIGHTness position

That's terribly wasteful. RRCA twice will do it.

>
> > Or, of course, you could base your game on the Henry's Hoard
> > engine, which has item colour settable by room.
>
> Something for me to remember when I finally get around to writing up
> my JSW Room-Format...

It uses the field which JSW (and JSWED) calls 'border'. In Henry's
Hoard the border is always black, so this field becomes surplus to
requirements.

 

 

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