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Message: 4514
Author: andrewbroad
Date: 10/10/2004
Subject: Re: Manic Person / SPECSAISIE Compare
>> So beta-testing Manic Person and JSW64 should be my secondRoom 16 of MM:AT took me longer than expected, and three other
>> priority next weekend; it will be my third priority under either
>> of the following circumstances:
>> (a) Maria Sharapova wins the Japan Open.
>
> Third priority it is! :-)
>
> I plan to finish Room 16 of MM:AT tonight, and beta-test Manic
> Person tomorrow.
distractions meant that I didn't start on Manic Person until 10pm.
I've beta-tested the title-screen and Rooms 0-3 of Manic Person, but
the rest will have to wait for next weekend I'm afraid.
One of the distractions was extending SPECSAISIE's Compare function
to annotate the differences with room- and offset-numbers for MM/JSW
games, specifically so I could more easily see what's changed from
the 12th May beta-version of Manic Person to the 20th June beta.
if (_annotateMM && a >= 45056) { // command-line flag -m
int d= a - 45056;
System.out.print("\tRoom " + d/1024);
System.out.print("\tOffset " + d%1024);
}
if (_annotateJSW && a >= 49152) { // command-line flag -j
int d= a - 49152;
System.out.print("\tRoom " + d/256);
System.out.print("\tOffset " + d%256);
}
A future version of SPECSAISIE should be able to take a machine-
processable specification of a room-format (as a data-file) that
matches addresses, address-ranges and base+offset formulae, and
generates more human-sympathetic descriptions of the data at matched
addresses.
I now expect to release SPECSAISIE 1.3 in 2005. I've made a lot of
developments since the current gamma-release (1.2), but there's
still much work to be done to bring it to a quiescent state.
--
Dr. Andrew Broad
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/willy/
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/download/
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