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Message: 6844
Author: jetsetdanny
Date: 14/04/2015
Subject: Re: Question about inserting patch vectors in JSW64
Never mind, there's nothing strange there.
What I noticed was that after double-clicking on a JSW game in a folder while the SPIN emulator was running and already playing another JSW game, the double-clicked game (it could also be the one playing already) would load (or reload, respectively), but then when I pressed Enter to start it, it would just reload without starting. Then, after pressing Enter again (with the hope to start the game), it would reload again, and so on, indefinitely.
I stupidly didn't notice that after loading a game by double-clicking it, SPIN wasn't the active window (I am using Windows XP SP3 on the computer where the "problem" occurred). I was still inside the folder with the game in question, with the game file selected. So every time I pressed Enter, I would just restart SPIN and reload the game, as if double-clicking it.
What needs to be done after double-clicking on the game is to click on the SPIN window to make it active.
So the only strange thing is that SPIN is not the active window after launching it by double-clicking on a corresponding file type.
Another (tiny little) mystery solved :-) .
Well, once again thank you, John, for your help on the printing issue! Apart from a special use I want to give it in a project of mine (the nature of which I will disclose at a later date), it could be very useful for adding text to the room graphics where appropriate, e.g. in a room depicting a shopping arcade where names of shops could be printed above the doorways. The cells on which the printing occurs preserve their character (e.g. if the printing is on Earth cells, they remain Earth cells, with the same colour attributes as the other Earth cells, but showing letters instead of the regular cell pattern). So it allows for some very interesting effects with no additional space necessary (if one can squeeze the printing code and data into the free space in the room; that's of course in all JSW64 variants but W).
Daniel
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