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Message: 4610
Author: john_elliott_uk
Date: 01/12/2004
Subject: Re: Opening and closing floors
--- In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, "Alexandra"
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Short answer: No.
> Someone sooo needs to write a patch that makes those opening and
> closing floors like in Odd Job Eddie and Monty Mole. I was thinking,
> if I wrote a BASIC program to do it (which would be easy), could I
> somehow compile it and then put it in my room?
Long answer: It's unlikely that you could get compiled BASIC to work
in a JSW environment, and the result would be pretty big. Also, it
isn't just a matter of drawing things on the screen; you'd have to
write your program to operate on JSW's internal buffers.
