Software Vault: The Gold Collection/Software Vault - The Gold Collection (American Databankers) (1993).ISO/cdr14/xeditor.zip/XEDITOR.TXT

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                          X-WING PILOT FILE EDITOR

Even though LucasArts and Larry Holland have seen fit to finally put a revive
function on the pilot roster, this function will remove all points accumulated
by that pilot when revive is used to restore him to action. Complaints about
the rigidity of X-Wing in that it demands 100% success on all its missions has
given rise to demand to for some means to "move ahead" in the game without
getting bogged down interminalbly on a single difficult mission. These reasons
among other has spurred me to try my hand at writing a program to help out
those gamers that don't have a hex editor or understand MSDOS' DEBUG.

XEDIT is written in QBASIC and while note the most graceful in terms of code
programming it does work well for what it does. I have one problem that I am
working on and had to remove one segement from the program due to a problem
with corruption of pilot files. I will attempt to get this rectified and
available as soon as possible.

XEDIT is menu driven. You just load the program and type in the appropriate
responses and the program will do the rest. XEDIT should most likely be in
your \XWING directory along with your pilot files, but since I've equipped it
with the means of seeking out the path to your pilot files it could be placed
elsewhere in a subdirectory in your path statement.

XEDIT.BAT will load the program into QBASIC for you and automatically start
execution of the program. You will be asked to type in the path to your
\XWING subdirectory. An eample of the expected input is supplied on screen
for you so I won't explain that any further. Next you will be at the main
menu where all functions originate. As you go through the program you will
be asked to type various responses from numbers to a "Y/N" type response.
I've attempted to make the program at least somewhat crash proof but it's
not infallible and if you try hard enough you can cause the program to abort.

XEDIT will let you revive dead or captured pilots WITH THEIR SCORES INTACT.
This only works if you DO NOT use the REVIVE function in X-WING on the target
file before you run XEDIT on it. XEDIT will let you give your pilot any
combination of available medals, ribbons and patches. There is a delete
function for eliminating bad pilot files or any other pilot file you choose.
You will be asked twice if you wish to proceed with any deletion so accidents
will be lessened unless you are truly reckless. XEDIT will let you promote or
even demote pilots as you wish. XEDIT will also let you create a full roster
of ACE pilots from what was moments before a roster full of ROOKIES.

I've included one special feature that will let the player see all of the
animated "Cut Scenes" in X-Wing that normally run between various segments
of the three Tours of Duty.

**********WARNING*********** This feature will patch the pilot file in such a
way that any currently inactive or active Tours of Duty will be lost. You
should either create a new pilot file or clone a pilot to a new name. Do not
run this feature on any pilot with which you wish to finish a Tour of Duty.
You will be given two chances to change your mind before the patches are
made to the pilot file.

Once the pilot file has been patched for the "Cut Scenes" you can load X-Wing
and pick this pilot from the roster. Then go to the Tour of Duty Registration
desk and select the "Cut Scenes" you wish to view.

Anyway, I hope you find XEDIT of some use. It may not be pretty, but it does
work. Just remember you need QBASIC to run it and that comes with MSDOS 5.0.

If you feel like it I wouldn't refuse any donations to the cause. I'll leave
the amount upto you since this is a first venture into a shareware type
program.