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... hey yes.. I did it several times.. (kill a dragon witha cobra). Really its a memorable action.. but you have to be lucky if the dragon dont kill the cobra...
kmuland
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Jul 2, 2007
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I've just uploaded a preliminary version of my revised notes on Chaos. I decided it was better do get it out there now rather than wait until it is polished...
archmageirvine
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Jul 4, 2007
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The interrupt routine for updating the animations appears to contain a noddy little fragment that scans the keyboard and exists the animation loop if the CAPS...
Sean A. Irvine
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Jul 6, 2007
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1310
Cheers Sean, this document will be very useful to me. Keep up the good work...
Kreezer
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1311
I think if you call KEY-SCAN (028E) you get a value from 1 to 40 (or 01..28 hex) in E, and D is a previous key. If you call KEYBOARD (02BF) it returns a...
johncoltrane3
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... Very nice! I like the fact that you've added anecdotes so it isn't as dry as a straight forward disassembly of the code....
Quirky
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Hi, Sorry for raising a dead thread here, but what do the Tempest and Teleport spells do in the modified version of Chaos? I've searched through the archives...
Quirky
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Jul 7, 2007
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On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 06:19:40 +0200, Sean A. Irvine <sairvin@...> ... The game itself sets Caps (23658,8) somewhere in the main game loop. You will...
Bo Krogsgaard
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Jul 7, 2007
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Hi Rich, yes, I don't think I explained how Tempest and Teleport work. I have an explanation on my site though. http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/mmcvittie/chaos/ ...
johncoltrane3
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... Chaos. ... I concur. It's great to see a document that covers all the bugs, features and history of Chaos. I hope you will keep adding to it....
johncoltrane3
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... I forget which is which, but depending on whether you play the Games Workshop original, the Firebird re-release or the one that was on the cover of a...
Dan Condon-Jones
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Jul 8, 2007
10:25 am
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In my text I meant to say CAPS SHIFT not CAPS LOCK. The routine called is indeed KEY_SCAN at 028E. The ROM disassembly says: "In all instances the E register...
Sean A. Irvine
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Jul 8, 2007
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... That's interesting. It never occurred to me before that there would be functional differences between the different releases. S....
Sean A. Irvine
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Jul 8, 2007
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For what's it worth, Teleport in Amiga Chaos (all versions) allows the wizard to be moved to any vacant cell. Tempest actually creates a tornado like object...
Sean A. Irvine
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Jul 8, 2007
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The only differences I'm aware of are that and the loading screens ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Dan Condon-Jones
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Jul 8, 2007
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... <snip> ... It certainly does, thanks! Though Sean's wandering storm is another approach to consider... cheers...
Quirky
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Jul 9, 2007
6:27 pm
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Anyone care to speculate on the origin of the wizard names in the snapshot? Here's the best I have so far ... JULIANLL: Obviously for Julian Gollop, it is...
Sean A. Irvine
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Jul 12, 2007
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I think you might be reading too much into this. If I'd created teh snapshot it would probably have had the old standards my friends and I used to use: Nobby ...
Dan Condon-Jones
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Jul 13, 2007
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... What wonderful names! I couldn't resist having a quick game myself against those names. I got to work straight away with an illusionary green dragon which...
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I always preferred Compucunt myself.... _____ From: gooeyblob@yahoogroups.com [mailto:gooeyblob@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Dan Condon-Jones Sent: 13 July...
Kevin Thorn
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Jul 13, 2007
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I used to work with someone known as Cuntface. ... -- shiftCREATE Limited http://www.shiftcreate.com e. adam@... t. 020 8123 3766 m. 07969 689 484 ...
Adam Jimenez
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Jul 13, 2007
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... the {\tt LL} is for. ... Gandalf + (f)r(om) + T(olkien) or Gandalf + r(ing) + T(olkien). I think the first two wizards are actually just JULIAN and...
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Jul 15, 2007
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... snapshot? Hi, ok here's my take on it. I think these names were used for testing so that J. Gollup didn't have to type in names every time he wanted to...
johncoltrane3
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Jul 15, 2007
12:48 pm
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Ah thanks for pointing this out. As for "ILIAN RANE" and "ASIMONO ZARK" they are mentioned elsewhere on the web, see ...
Sean A. Irvine
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Jul 15, 2007
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On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 23:36:25 +0200, Sean A. Irvine <sairvin@...> ... The title is "Galactic Chaos" and what i can make out of the rest it's "Asimono...
Bo Krogsgaard
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Jul 16, 2007
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Maybe Gowin is another way of spelling Gowain, one of the Arthurian nights. Torquemada from LoC was a particularly nasty character from the Spanish...
Matt
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Jul 21, 2007
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... Could just as well be a 2000AD / Nemesis The Warlock reference, although i have no clue how far back that dates. b...
Bo Krogsgaard
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Jul 22, 2007
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... I believe this is false. My reading of the code indicates that the AI NEVER casts Subversion on a creature which has not previously been disbelieved by...
archmageirvine
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Aug 1, 2007
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'Chaos Groove' v0.7 is out now. http://www.funkemunke.com/ChaosGroove_Demo.zip The latest version has full sound effects and lots of menu's to customize the...
Kreezer
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Aug 20, 2007
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... I was not able to test it. The graphic engine seems not work ok here. Everything moves Slooooooooooooooooow (like running XP on an old 486). I use here an...
kmuland
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Aug 21, 2007
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