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Message: 5709
Author: john_elliott_uk
Date: 13/03/2006
Subject: Re: JSWED 2.3.1: Andrew's comments (Chapters 18 to 19)
--- In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, andrewbroad
> You don't need to uninstall 2.3.1 - just make a copy of the
Or install 2.2.9 to somewhere else. I think InstallShield lets you
> C:\Program Files\JSWED2\ folder before you reinstall 2.2.9, and
> you'll still be able to run the jswed.exe from the copy of 2.3.1.
choose the destination folder.
> JETSETW2.TAP says it needs 0 items to win; JSW2.Z80 says it needs
#877E.
> 150. What is the address of this datum?
> So where is the "table of 16-bit words for each room. Set bits in a
A rough calculation suggests that given a room number, the entry for
> word correspond to untaken items" that is referred to at
> http://www.seasip.demon.co.uk/Jsw/jsw2room.html ?
a room is at
#5020 + ((room number << 3) & #700) + ((room number & #1F)*2)
- disassemble from #8099 to check my calculations.
> JSW II - Super Pre-School Edition has 135 rooms, does not it?
You increase or decrease the number of rooms on the "Game" page. Be
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> How do you add new room-numbers to the game like you did there? How
> do you delete unwanted rooms and thereby decrement the number of
> rooms? JSWED needs to provide these facilities.
warned that if you decrease it so that the room you're editing doesn't
exist any more, JSWED will crash.
> When setting the room-name, does JSWED take advantage of JSW2's
Oh, better than that. It regenerates the dictionary every time you
> dictionary for common words such as "The"? Does it match them
> (unknown to the user) and substitute references to the dictionary?
save, and seems to do a better job than whatever or whoever compressed
the original JSW2.
> And what about representing cells with combined behaviours, such as
My personal view is that JSWED should export them as ramps, though I
> the Water-cells in "Out on a limb" that behave as ramps?
see that at the moment it doesn't.
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