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Message: 4643
Author: andrewbroad
Date: 03/01/2005
Subject: JSW64: Andrew's second beta-test of the game itself / JSWED
I have playtested JSW64 Variant V (jsw64v.tap) again, this time the
28th December 2004 revision:
[50] "The Watch Tower": The infinite-death scenario on falling back
down from "Night has fallen here" [47] is unfair and nasty. I
usually go to "The Off Licence" from here after clearing the top of
the house.
[61] "The Clock Tower" (above "Rescue Esmerelda"): A brand new room
with crumbling floors and guardians that go down and stop at the
bottom. Unfortunately there is a nasty infinite-death scenario when
going up out of the screen on the left column (to the middle Clock
Tower [62]), or when coming back down into this room and landing in
the start-position of a guardian.
[63] "The Clock Tower" (top): This room shows off JSW64's multiple
ramps, a diagonal guardian that moves along a diamond-shaped path (a
patch-vector effect or is the guardian-format really this
flexible?), and a portal to "A bit of tree".
[82] "Solar Power Generator": On taking the portal, it triggers the
swordfish routine, then crashes the Spectrum. In fact, it crashes
when you try to enter "The Final Barrier" [83] by WRITETYPER or by
setting it as the start-screen with POKE 34795,83. Therefore, I
conclude that only 175 items are collectible out of a total of 180
(there were 256-PEEK 34270 == 5 items remaining in my final
snapshot).
Regarding JSWED 2.2.2, I like the way you can navigate between rooms
by going left, right, up, down, next room-number, previous room-
number, or choosing the room from a numerically-sorted list. But it
would also be nice and a lot quicker in some instances if you could
just type in the room-number. JSW CK allows you to type in the room-
number by pressing 'j' (as well as supporting the other methods of
navigation mentioned in this paragraph).
JSW CK also lets you return to the previous room you were editing by
pressing 'p'. This is useful if you accidentally leave the room
you're working on (particularly by following a one-way exit), or if
you wish to toggle rapidly between any two rooms in the game.
Finally, I was scrolling through the room-list in JSWED when the
application just shut down, instantly and with no visible error-
message.
When can we expect JSWED 2.3.0 to be released? I'm wondering whether
to print out the manual yet...
--
Dr. Andrew Broad
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/willy/
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