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Message: 5753

Author: Igor Makovsky

Date: 26/03/2006

Subject: Re: You robot demo / Criticisms of JSW64

 

> I see it's a JSW64 Variant [ game. According to Section 11.1 of the
> JSWED manual, Variant [ can only have four guardians per room, yet
> this game clearly has more. So this table needs to state that
> Variant [ can have up to 63 guardians per room by using the "free"
> area (and likewise for Variants X, Y and Z):

There can be only 32, Andrew.

> http://www.seasip.demon.co.uk/Jsw/jsw64room.html
>
> I get the impression that the game runs very slowly - certainly
> compared with MM48. I think the number of guardians per room really
> affects performance here.

Have a look at the "Legendary sixteenth cavern" or some others in
UMM, where guardians are also multicolor and where there are 32 of
them in the room =) I accelerate my ZX emulator, but even then the
game moves TOO slow!.. =(((

> I would rather see many cell-classes than many guardians - and
> preferably in parts of the screen that aren't reachable.

That isn't always possible and it isn't very interesting to put such
beautiful things away, though I, ofcourse, understand, why you
recommend it.

 

 

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