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Message: 4973
Author: john_elliott_uk
Date: 22/10/2005
Subject: Re: JSWED: Andrew's comments (Chapter 6 to Section 6.5)
--- In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, "Alexandra"
>
Of course, the benefit of JSWED being open-source is that anything I
> I pretty much agree with Andrew's suggestions, though it sounds
> like a heck of a lot of work,
don't want to implement, I can just say "Well, you have the source; go
on, then."
> My main priority, for what it's worth, is some kind of patch manager
This and Andrew's extended memory manager would require something
> for the room patches
new in the world of JSW editing - a file external to the JSW game
containing byte-by-byte information about what goes where. Plus
patches would have to be supplied as something more sophisticated than
simple hex dumps - say Microsoft .REL format, with the absolute
segment holding areas with fixed addresses and the code/data segments
holding relocatable code or data.
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