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Message: 4939
Author: andrewbroad
Date: 12/10/2005
Subject: Re: Role Reversal's alternate-version loader
Alexandra wrote:
Well, RR has needed a few finishing touches. Erix1 has drawn a
charming title screen and was going to write a special loading
routine for me, which would let you choose an 'alternate' version
set either in Winter or at night-time (I will only decide this
after faffing around with the palettes and seeing which idea has
the most joy). It is all colour changes, maybe the odd pixel
pattern change too. But now Erix1 appears to have disappeared.
Maybe he just couldn't put up with me anymore and is hiding, but
either way, I have two choices:I can either ask around if anybody can make such a loading
program, or I can make two versions with differing colours and
bundle them. The first is waay more elegant, the second gets the
thing done and dusted.
If this were my problem, I would make the alternate version using a
JSW-editor, then use SPECSAISIE's Compare function to determine what
POKEs need to be applied to generate the alternate version from the
standard one (using FOR-loops and DATA-statements to minimise the
size of the loader).
If there were a lot of POKEs, I would tweak Compare.java to generate
the code semi-automatically, using BAS2TAP to generate a TAP file
from a text-file of the code.
--
Dr. Andrew Broad
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/download/
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