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4148
1. I downloaded HexPat the other night, but it doesn't want to play with me. Whenever I run hexpat.exe, it opens for a second and then closes itself down...
soa1000
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May 1, 2004
12:10 pm
4149
... Thank you very much - Wobble and Jiggle are very impressive! I'm pleased to see no apparent ill-effects from the item in the top row of "Under the...
andrewbroad
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May 1, 2004
1:01 pm
4150
... Ah yes, Suomen Tasavalta. A bit of a special case. Variously Eastern Baltic Swedish Provinces, then North-West Russia, eventually granted independance by...
jgh@...
jgharston
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May 1, 2004
2:00 pm
4151
... I think you're doing something wrong. HEXPAT needs to be run from the command line, passing filenames as arguments. Put HEXPAT, the .HEX files and JSW in a...
john_elliott_uk
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May 1, 2004
9:32 pm
4152
... Well, if you had something other than ROM just before the screen, it might not be so happy. Of course, there's no reason why (on a +3) it has to be ROM...
john_elliott_uk
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May 1, 2004
9:36 pm
4153
[Re: Files > Arcane design > JSW - RR beta.zip] Let's get the linguistic points out of the way first: * Readme.txt: Jopn Eliott -> John Elliott * The...
andrewbroad
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May 1, 2004
10:49 pm
4154
... in Retro Gamer issue 5. We'll also reveal the contents of each and every disk, providing they still work! And of course, the disks will be on display at...
dasse68
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May 1, 2004
11:02 pm
4155
... maybe you have a swedish virus in your computer ;P btw, alexandra.. I miss you on the msn! I want to moan with you.. haha.. long live willy!...
dasse68
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May 1, 2004
11:05 pm
4156
... (which ... Perhaps the guardian sprite bitmap is using too much memory, it definately takes up the most memory in the game... Though that doesn't explain...
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May 2, 2004
5:11 pm
4157
""[0] "Back door": That's the first time I've seen a non-swinging rope outside of my own games! :-) Of course I'm way behind in playing others' games to...
soa1000
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May 2, 2004
5:48 pm
4158
... I spotted that after I uploaded and kicked myself. Sorry John, I've done that twice and it's nothing personal. I think the confusing (to me) spelling makes...
Alexandra
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May 2, 2004
7:02 pm
4159
... I don't see how you could freeze a rope at an angle without using a special patch. Of course, in Erix1 Mode you can freeze a rope on any time-frame using a...
andrewbroad
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May 2, 2004
7:16 pm
4160
... Glutton for punishment, you are :). I don't really like MSN for some reason but I'll go on it and look for you. Did you decide to go ahead with writing a...
Alexandra
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May 2, 2004
7:48 pm
4161
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the manicminerandjetsetwilly group. File...
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May 2, 2004
9:49 pm
4162
... Sorry, that should be jswdrag.zip (I mis-uploaded the first time)....
john_elliott_uk
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May 2, 2004
9:52 pm
4163
... Amen to that. ... That might be difficult, given the way ropes interact (because they use 16 bytes in the current room's expanded guardian-list, rather ...
andrewbroad
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May 2, 2004
10:25 pm
4164
Heh, I like it. I think over summer I must resurrect my conversions of Creepy Dungeon and JSW for the C16...
soa1000
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May 2, 2004
10:27 pm
4165
""If I had a copy of MvSB Revision D to hand, SPECSAISIE Compare could compare D with E and tell us the pokes needed to fix the bug. Unfortunately my only...
soa1000
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May 2, 2004
11:37 pm
4166
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the manicminerandjetsetwilly group. File...
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May 3, 2004
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4167
... next ... Ah, then you want Adjacent Ropes. I've just added a new version of this patch to http://www.seasip.demon.co.uk/Jsw/patches.html ; this not only...
john_elliott_uk
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May 3, 2004
1:44 am
4168
... Wow, that's a very faithful conversion! It looks very much like JSW64 could be the game-engine prophesied in the bottom entry of my List of MM/JSW Games! ...
andrewbroad
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May 3, 2004
11:45 am
4169
... Does this still allow non-swinging ropes, since it's the `bug' fixed by Adjacent Ropes that actually causes them to be frozen? ... Yes, the arrows have to...
andrewbroad
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May 3, 2004
12:03 pm
4170
Hi, just thought I let you know I've done a new Miner Tech web site. Not much to talk about yet, but in time it'll expand... http://minertech.topcities.com How...
minertech
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May 3, 2004
12:13 pm
4171
... It's there, on version W at least. Also, I noticed on that version (I haven't tried Z, so can't comment) that Willy isn't reacting to the sky labs. He...
soa1000
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May 3, 2004
12:44 pm
4172
... fixed ... Maybe not. It may be possible to freeze ropes by tampering with the guardian definition, but I haven't really gone into the matter....
john_elliott_uk
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May 3, 2004
1:25 pm
4173
... Here's a stationary rope that hangs down. I don't think you can get stationary ropes that are stopped at other angles. 03 04 00 00 1c 00 83 04...
john_elliott_uk
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May 3, 2004
1:32 pm
4174
... For the case of 'after completing all 20 rooms', there's a comment in mm64.zsm where the reset code should go. But I'd have to make 'reset item taken...
john_elliott_uk
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May 3, 2004
1:42 pm
4175
... For that to happen the rope would need to be stopped from updating. As far as I'm aware IX+7 could be used as a flag to choose whether to run the update...
carlwoffenden
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May 3, 2004
1:51 pm
4176
... next ... John fixed that with a patch called 'Adjacent ropes' (or something similar). So you can have all 8 guardians as ropes, if you like :). However, I...
Alexandra
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May 3, 2004
4:55 pm
4177
... (I ... OK; I've uploaded a new version that should fix this (a silly typo; there was a LD C,A instead of a LD C,1) and also add half-speed horizontal...
john_elliott_uk
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