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From: James Mckinney <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: TradeWars clone

Hi Trey,

[...]

 T> I would upload what I've done of the specifications (which, in
 T> time, are going to be converted to AmigaGuide format, but for now
 T> are in a text format), except the file is already fairly large,
 T> and I don't want to bog people down with it. I will be happy to
 T> mail it to those who express an interest, though. But, it should
 T> be noted, I still have not finished the specs. I have a LOT more
 T> work to do (in my opinion).. namely, I have to come up with planet
 T> types, various kinds of goods for sale, various kinds of .. I'm
 T> not sure how to describe it .. "enhancers" for things I call
 T> 'Stills' and for ships (eg: force sheilds, automated sub-space
 T> radio alarms, etc). Currently, the game has a chance for depth
 T> that is fairly staggering.. which is what I'm looking for. It also
 T> promises to be perhaps the most flexible (read: the most chaotic)
 T> version of this genre to date.

I would like to look at you specs.  I'm an active TW2002 player with
quite a bit of experience.  I have played several other TW-style games
as well.  I might be able to provide some help in the areas of
complexity and playability.  I hope to help you gather the best of all
the TW clones and make the "ultimate" version of TW.

I am the author of a TW utility for the Amiga called "TWdb" (TradeWars
Database- written in 'E'.).  It is the only Amiga utility of its type
that I'm aware of. I have gotten lots of praise and thanks from users
around the world.  They are finally able to compete with the MSDOS
crowd.  (MSDOS users have several utilities to choose from.)

I would like to see some sort of data retrieval built into your game.
TW2002 is the only game I know of that has generated more source code
in utilities than the game itself contains.  I find this very
interesting.  Good analysis of the data is a very important part of
the successful player's overall strategy.  Perhaps I could modify my
utility to work with your game.

Let me know what you think about all this.  Best of luck in school.

Later,

        Jim

PS.  If you are going to send me your specs, try this method.  LHA
your text and then UUEncode the lha file.  You can then send the
uuencoded file to me as an email message.  Thanks.
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Subject: MODS and IFF sound

How do I play IFF sound files from E.  Also has anybody used the OCTAMED
library under E to play MED files?
Eric
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Subject: Using ASL requesters

Ok. I'm trying to get the information contained from an ASL requestor
with respect to file name and path name. The following code does NOT
work. :-)


PROC openfilereq(aslORreq,pathname)

DEF req, buf[240]:STRING,dirbuf[120]:STRING,filebuf[120]:STRING,
    aslreq:PTR TO filerequestr

/* Use req.library? (My preference) */

IF aslORreq=REQLIB

    IF req:=RtAllocRequestA(0,0)
        buf[0]:=0
        RtFileRequestA(req,buf,pathname,0)
        WriteF('Say! You picked \s!\n',buf)
        RtFreeRequest(req)
    ELSE
        Raise(OPENREQ)
    ENDIF

ELSE

    IF aslreq:=AllocFileRequest()
      IF RequestFile(aslreq)
        WriteF('Guess what! you picked "\s" in "\s" !\n',aslreq.file,aslreq.dir)
        StrCopy(dirbuf,aslreq.dir,ALL)
        WriteF('aslreq.dir was \s\n', aslreq.dir)
        WriteF('aslreq.dir was \h[8]\n', aslreq.dir)
        buf:=StrAdd(buf,dirbuf,ALL)
        WriteF('buf in aslreq was \s\n',buf)
        StrCopy(filebuf,aslreq.file,ALL)
        WriteF('aslreq.file was \s\n', aslreq.file)
        WriteF('aslreq.file was \h[8]\n', aslreq.file)
        buf:=StrAdd(buf,filebuf,ALL)
        WriteF('buf in aslreq was \s\n',buf)
        FreeFileRequest(aslreq)
      ENDIF
    ELSE
        Raise(OPENREQ)
    ENDIF
ENDIF

ENDPROC buf

------------------------

I'm not sure how to extract the info. The example pulls out random portions of
error message strings associated with various DOS commands (like "Not a DOS
disk as source") but doesn't let me pull out the values of aslreq.file or
aslreq.dir. Any help would be welcome.

      Dave
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From: [e-mail] (Roger Martensson)
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Subject: Re: Listview gadgets


 * Cross-Reply from area 'NET_92_901_607' (NET_92_901_607)

Hello Kenny,
In a message dated 02 Jan 94 you wrote:

Hmm, maybe I can help here. I write in Pseudo-C(My own easy to understand
pseudo code. :) because I haven't used E for a long long time. (3-4 months)

 KA> be able to get ListView gadgets working! SrcGen doesn't support tags;
 KA> how
 KA> do I define what I want in the listview gadget? I've tried various
 KA> things,
 KA> but all I seem to be able to do is either create a blank gadget, or
 KA> worse
 KA> still, guru the machine!

First. A very good tag in Listviews are: GTLV_Labels
Here you define your own List. Yes, you have to play with Lists and
Nodes.

First Allocate a List structure.

(struct List*)MyList=AllocList(sizeof(struct List));

Ok, now we have allocated a List. Lets Inistialize it.

NewList(MyList);

Now we have out List. Which is the head. The GTLV_labels whats the address
to this list.

Want something in it? Simple. First:

(struct Node*)MyNode=AllocNode(sizeof(struct Node));

And put the name of the viewable text in: MyNode->ln_PubName

And: AddTail(MyList, MyNode);

Tada, and finnished. You only have to allocate the List once, and
then one Node for each item.

 KA>      Could some kind soul post a quick example of LISTVIEW_KIND gadgets
 KA> in
 KA> action?

Hope this helps. I don't have E on the Harddrive anymore, mostly because
I don't have E on my school. :)

The thing I'm looking for is to be able to make linkable object files.
Then I can do some timeconsuming routines in E, instead of Assembler which
I don't understand. :)

Anyway, good luck with the ListView. Anymore questions?

/Rm - InterNet: [e-mail]
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Subject: exiting loops

Another dumb new-to-E question: does E support any sort of loop-exiting
machinery?  C has continue/break, ARexx has iterate/leave.  Does E have
somethign that effects those functions?

Thanks
  /Bernie\

ps, one way that works is to do something like:
   FOR ...

      ....
   continuehere: ENDFOR breakhere:

and then have "continue" --> JUMP continuehere and "break" -->
JUMP breakhere, but since labels are global, you have to be a bit
sneakier in E to keep the leave/continue labels unique...  /b\
--
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Hi, this is from Jason Maskell,
    I've got a few questions for an E programmer stuck in the boonies..
    1. When should the newest Amiga E (v2.5?) be released. Wouter?
    2. Will the newest E allow:
        - Compiling libraries/devices?
        -infinite ptr dereferencing a.b.c.d.e.f etc? Please no limits.
        -What happened to the person uploading archived Amiga E
        mailing list stuff? I have ftp access and no email at this
        time so this was the only way I was getting to read it.
    3. What're people here working on?

    I myself am working on a directory utility, (like Dopus/Dirwork)
but designed to beat them both. Mike Wesson here is working on learning E
by writing a bbs door. Rather hard when you don't have the RKMs or even
autodocs.