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Message: 5894

Author: andrewbroad

Date: 15/08/2006

Subject: Re: JSW Lifts-patch / Andrew's MM/JSW activity

 

dm_boozefreek wrote:

To Andrew the lift patching appears to be progressing nicely
however I see the little probs you have to iron out, The
horizontal platforms could work as they are now I'm tempted by
them, but I think I will wait until you've solved the case with
both before I start attempting to fiddle.

I'm happy with the basic behaviour of horizontal lifts, but don't
assume that once I fix the row-matching logic, a horizontal lift
will still pick you up when you are standing below the top of the
lift and it collides with you! I would expect horizontal lifts to
kill Willy in this situation; however, it all depends on what works
best for vertical lifts (since they share the same code).

Just out of interest (I apologise if anyone has already
addressed this issue), Will the lifts patch be done via a lump of
code somewhere that you then change the guardians manually to
activate or will it be room specific, or are you not sure yourself
yet?

Any horizontal or vertical guardian can be made to behave as a lift
by setting Bit 4 of the second byte of its guardian-class.

In other words, click "!" in JSWED's Guardian Editor, and add #10 to
the second byte (I hope JSWED will have a "Lift" checkbox at some
point in the future, when editing a game that uses the lifts-patch).

Anyway, my MM/JSW activity has continued to be restricted by further
distractions. The worst of these is behind me now, though I don't
expect much to do much MM/JSW between 28th August and 10th September
for tennis-reasons.

My first MM/JSW priority is to update my website (particularly my
List of MM/JSW Games, which entails processing 54 messages).

I don't plan to resume work on Advanced MM/JSW Trainer until after
10th September, except possibly to issue a minor revision (changes
to existing rooms).

I work on the lifts-patch as and when I have both the time and the
inclination for a bout of non-AMJT-related Z80 hacking.

--
Dr. Andrew Broad
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/willy/

 

 

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