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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 wrote:

You don't need to uninstall 2.3.1 - just make a copy of the
C:BBBBBBProgram FilesBBBBBBJSWED2BBBBBB 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.

Or install 2.2.9 to somewhere else. I think InstallShield lets you
choose the destination folder.

JETSETW2.TAP says it needs 0 items to win; JSW2.Z80 says it needs
150. What is the address of this datum?

#877E.

So where is the "table of 16-bit words for each room. Set bits in a
word correspond to untaken items" that is referred to at
http://www.seasip.demon.co.uk/Jsw/jsw2room.html ?

A rough calculation suggests that given a room number, the entry for
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?

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.

You increase or decrease the number of rooms on the "Game" page. Be
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
dictionary for common words such as "The"? Does it match them
(unknown to the user) and substitute references to the dictionary?

Oh, better than that. It regenerates the dictionary every time you
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
the Water-cells in "Out on a limb" that behave as ramps?

My personal view is that JSWED should export them as ramps, though I
see that at the moment it doesn't.

 

 

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