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Mobed 2 Copyright (c) 1991 Martin Jones PSD Mobed2 is the follow up to the original Mobed.It is a program written for the editing of sprites and bobs. Unlike the original,Mobed2 is NOT public domain.The other text file "tutorial.doc" gives a tutorial on how to use the program effectively (it will help if you print that file out if you intend to use it). (By the way my spelling's not brilliant) Contents of this file: Purpose System requirements General control Editing window Drawing modes Sizes and Planes Palette Loading and Saving Commands and Effects Author Purpose ------- Moveable OBject EDitor 2 ,what is a mob I hear you scream (I've got very good hearing)?It is a word I borrowed from our old friends Commodore,(C64 programmers reference guide) A mob describes any kind of moveable object it was a word used before Sprites,Bobs,Blobs and Hsprites came into use.The pointer can be called a Mob the aliens rushing about in the latest shoot-em-up are Mobs.So it is that Mobed2 can edit both sprites and Bobs (Some of you may call Bobs Blobs,but I think that sounds horrible).Users of the original will find that this program is a vast improvement over the original.It now has a file selector,decent cyclelist editing and a whole plethora of useful effects and commands,it is also a lot,lot faster with the OS knocked out cold I was able to make extensive use of the Blitter (Commodore would you please make your next generation blitter with hardware scaling,hardware realtime rotation and a 3D point system,Should be no trouble these days).The Blitter is a dead useful chip,just look at the speed of 2*2 magnification.Anyway onto the more serious stuff. System Requirements ------------------- Mobed2 was coded on a 1.3 1Meg A500 with external drive (and a printer).Therefore I know that it works on that configuration.There shouldn't be any problems with other configurations although I haven't been able to test it with a hard drive.Half meg users should have all of Mobed's functions apart from Maped.I still haven't bought the official manuals and so I still don't fully know what I am doing with the operating system,therefore the OS is frozen while the program is running,being revived only for disk access and rewoken on exit of Mobed.This has several advantages (basically I know exactly what's going on and can have nice simple interrupt routines) but it does have the disadvantage that you cannot normally change disks while the program is running.If you eject a disk while Mobed2 is running you will notice the absence of clicks,however when DOS is revived your Amiga may well crash.There is a way around this which will be explained in the loading and saving chapter.No extra files are actually required to load Mobed2,it is a fully self contained executable program.Should the system suddenly seize up and the mouse disappears then AmigaDos has intervened because of a major disk error (e.g. no disk in drive),if this is the case then press the right mouse button.It seems that AmigaDos is reluctant to inform my program of such errors,and tries to warn you itself,which it can't do on my custom screen.That may seem like some major problems but they do fade into the background (Honest !). General Control --------------- The mouse is used for nearly everything,apart from moving around the editing window.There are keyboard versions of the icons (i.e. you can press DEL instead of clicking on Clear).The keyboard is slightly different,it is automatically set to GB but the keypad works slightly differently,the non numeric keys are remapped to be used as hex keys as so: Old Keypad New Keypad ---------- ---------- ( ) / * a b c d 7 8 9 - 7 8 9 e 4 5 6 + 4 5 6 f 1 2 3 E 1 2 3 E n n 0--0 . t 0--0 <-- t This will be of great help if you need to be quick at typing in hexadecimal numbers without wandering all over the keyboard. Clicking on some commands will bring up a window (a bit similar to the ones you get with WorkBench).These windows cannot be repositioned and are closed (if they don't close themselves) by clicking in the title bar (on the name).Hexadecimal and normal decimal notation are used in Mobed2,the only times that decimal is used is for a a few commands.Details of these changes are given in the command summary.Where details aren't given assume that the number is hexadecimal (especially if there is only room for two digits). Editing Window -------------- This is where all drawing and direct editing is performed. You can't miss it,it's the big square on the left of the screen,with some numbers at the top and some icons hanging beneath it.In the top left corner are the coordinates of the pointer on the mob (you might have to move the pointer into the edit window to update the numbers).A mob's coordinates are not like mathematical coordinates which start at 0,0 in the bottom left corner but start at 0,0 in the top left corner.If you are used to Bit-plane coordinates then you should be use to this notation.The coordinates are updated as long as the pointer is inside the edit window. When the position of the window changes the coordinates will be adjusted to represent the position of the pointer to the top left of the mob,not the top left of the magnification in the edit window.The coordinates are displayed as decimal numbers. Moving along a little bit you find the current mob number ,Mobed2 is capable of working on 255 mobs,this number will be less if you have large mobs and/or several Bit-planes. To advance through the mobs click on the plus gadget,to step back click on the minus gadget.If you advance past the last mob then you will be put at mob 00,similarly if you step back past 00 then you will jump to the highest mob available.To jump to a specific mob click on the digits,a cursor will then appear,type in the mob number,if it is available you will jump to that mob.Much more handy than clicking on the + and - gadgets are the increase and decrease mob number keys,"a" will decrease the mob number "b" will increase it,remember that the a and b keys are duplicated onto the ( and ) keys on the keypad.The current mob number is displayed as a hexadecimal number. Next along is the magnification control,Mobed2 has 5 modes of magnification 1:1 2:1 4:1 8:1 16:1.The highest magnification is always available but the lower magnifications are only available if they will completely fill the edit window (i.e. you can't have 1:1 magnification on a mob that is only 112 * 80 pixels).To zoom in click on the plus gadget,zoom out by using the minus gadget.There are keys for these once again which have been designed for speed of use,"c" zooms out,"d" zooms in ( / and * keys on the keypad).When you zoom using the keys Mobed2 will try to place the point underneath the pointer into the centre of the edit window. To move the edit window use the arrow keys and the keypad arrow keys (8,4,6,2).The keypad arrow keys shift you by several pixels,the amount depends on which magnification mode you are in.The arrow keys will always shift you one pixel. The part above the icons,it probably says No name,is where you can give a name to your mob.Just click in here and type your name. Drawing Modes ------------- Each drawing mode in Mobed2 has a different animated pointer,the pointers are animated so that they should be visible over any colour (apart from exactly the same as the pointer).There are a couple of other pointers used for colour selection and to show the computer is doing some maths work.The pointers represent the drawing function, you have an animated square for the square command.The icons slung beneath the edit window are the same as the pointers but aren't animated.To select a drawing mode just click on the icon,the pointer will change to represent this and a name will appear above the palette box.On some of the icons clicking with the right mouse button has a different effect to the left button.There are key commands as well.The following is a list of modes from left to right. Button clicked Mode Key command Left Dot F1 Right Dot F1 Left Line F2 Right Line F2 Left Circle F3 Right Filled Circle None Left Ellipse F4 Right Filled Ellipse None Left Square F5 Right Filled Square None Left Rectangle F6 Right Filled Rectangle None Left Cut F7 Right Cut F7 Left Paste (Clear Back) F8 Right Paste (Solid Back) F9 Left Spray F10 Right Spray adjust None To use the selected drawing mode move the pointer into the edit window and depress either the left mouse button to use the drawcol or the right button for the erasecol (see the palette section).Mode explanations: Dot:Quite simply a dot of colour is put under the mouse pointer. Line:When the mouse button is depressed the start of the line is set,when you release the button a line is drawn from the start to the current pointer position.You can still move around the edit window while drawing a line. Circle:Depression sets the centre and releasing sets the radius. Ellipse:Similar to circle but draws an ellipse Square:Depression sets one corner,releasing sets an opposite corner. Rectangle: As above except with a rectangle. Cut:Cuts a rectangular section of the current mob and places it into memory.The area to be cut is designated by a rectangle. Paste:Places a previously cut section onto the current mob (which can be different from the where the rectangle was cut from).With a clear background,the section is partly see-through,all colour 00 is invisible.When the background is solid all information beneath the cut section is overwritten.The handle on the brush can be changed using the keys 1,3,7,9,5. Spray:Activates a spray can,the radius of the spray can can be adjusted by clicking on the spray icon with the right mouse button,simply enter the new radius.The spray icon is that funny diamond one,I tried a proper spray can icon but it didn't look right. Sizes and Planes ---------------- All of your mobs in one file must be of the same size, you can edit both 16*16 and 32*32 sized mobs,just not at the same time.Once the Mob size is set all of the mobs will be the same size.The same goes for bit planes ,you can have different amounts but not in the same file. I suggest that you set the Size and number of Planes as the first thing you do when you start editing a new file (This information is saved with your save file).Mobs in Mobed2 come in many more sizes than in the original Mobed but Mobed2 cannot edit 8*8 sized mobs.The X-size can be $10,$20,$30,$40,$50,$60,$70 or $80 pixels and the Y-size can range from 8 to 255 pixels.To select the size click on the Size icon,then select the X-size you want by clicking in one of the eight boxes (1,2,3,4,5,6,7 or 8) ,then click in the Y-size box and type in the required height (in hexadecimal).Now click on the Clr+Set button ,the memory has been cleared and set ready for use.If you click on Size by mistake just click in the title bar of the size window and you will be returned. Mobed2 is capable of using EHB and the lower 5 planes, which is all that is normally required,if you want to edit HAM mobs then I can only suggest that you get a good HAM paint package and an IFF converter (I once saw a converter by KEFRENS it looked most impressive,look out for it I think that it could be P.D. or Shareware).To adjust the planes click on Planes,then the required number of planes and then on Clr+Set.A1000 users and very early A500 users may have problems with EHB because you haven't got it,the other modes should still work fine though. Palette ------- This will be quite a big section.Over to the right of the edit window is a box with many colours,there could well be duplicates of the colours.When Mobed2 first loads some of the colours will be changing (colours $10-$1f are rainbow cycling),this is quite normal.To select a colour just move the pointer over to the palette box and just click on the colour you want,use the left mouse button to select the drawcol and the right for the erasecol.The current drawcol and erasecol are shown in a box beneath the palette box,the square on the left is drawcol,the one on the right erasecol.That is the easy bit now onto cycling. Mobed2 has the ability to colour cycle the colours,but not in the same way as Dpaint (but that effect is dead easy to synthesize),each colour in the palette box actually has a whole list of colours to describe it.The colours move through the list at their own rates (run off of the Vblank) ,a colour not cycling still has a list it's just that it only uses one value in the list.To see a colour's list click on the drawcol or erasecol a window is then opened, don't worry this is the largest and most packed window in Mobed2,if you can handle this everything else is dead easy.The big bank of numbers on the left are all the RGB values,the actual cyclelist.To change these just click in the boxes and type.Over to the right and at the top is a small palette box,click in here to change the colour you are editing,the box just below the palette box will show your current colour and the number below that tells you the index number of the colour.Posn shows the last position of the cursor in the cyclelist only any use for finding the limit of the cycle.Start/Hold this is an individual control for that colour,when a colour is held then the first value in the cyclelist is displayed (i.e. there is no cycling).On/off is the master control for colour cycling ,you can switch all cycling off using this command.This can be usefull when trying to draw using many cycling colours,it's very easy to get confused and use the wrong colour.I find it useful to draw with the cycling switched off and then check that the mob is cycling properly by switching it on every now and then. Align is a tidying up command,if your colours aren't cycling in step then try clicking on Align and things should become clearer.Speed,this sets the cycling speed,the lower the number the faster the cycling,each unit is 1 Vblank.Limit sets the highest value the colour will take. The lower parts of the window are general editing commands which make life a lot easier than in Mobed1.Copy,when you click on this icon or the box and type in a number then the cyclelist,speed and limit are copied from the colour number in the box to the current colour,you will see the cyclelist change to this.Offset is used in conjunction with the copy command instead of copying straight from one cycle- list to another an offset can be introduced so value 00 is copied to value 01.Offset uses modulo 64 so you can also use negative numbers.Swap,the swap command in the cycle box is not to be confused with the other swap on the main screen,they do similar things but in totally different ways. Swap simply swaps the current colour with the colour number in the box,the cyclelist are physically exchanged.Blend takes an average of the cyclelist of the colour in the blend box with the current colour and puts it into the current colour,progressive use of this command brings the current colour closer to the blend colour.Spread,this command only affects the current colour,the upper number represents the start position and the lower number the end position.If you need to produce a glowing effect going through all the greys all you have to do is set the first value to 000 (black) and then go to the bottom of the first column and set the last value as fff(pure white).Now go to spread,set the start position as 00 and the end one as 0f then click on spread. The first sixteen values in the cyclelist will now read 000,111,222,333,444,555,666,777,888,999,aaa,bbb,ccc,ddd, eee,fff a smooth graduation of colour has been produced with little effort. Hopefully the tutorial will make things easier to understand. Loading and Saving ------------------ Mobed2 now has a file requester,unlike the original.When you click on load or save for the first time the directory will be read and appears in the directory box.Mobed2 files appear as normal,directories are printed in inverse video and files that haven't been saved from Mobed2 are printed in shaded text.The arrows to the right of the directory box will move the directory up or down.To change directory just click on one in the directory box or type it in the path box.Files can be selected by clicking on them or typing them in.As was mentioned before Mobed2 halts the Amiga's operating system and so you can't flip a disk out while the program is running,the only time you can change disks is when the directory box is waiting for you to click a mouse button, while Mobed2 is waiting for this action AmigaDos is awake. It is a good idea to wait for all disk access to stop before pressing the mouse button,occasionally the drive might still be running when you return to the main program,this is not harmfull but can be annoying,re-reading the directory can help this problem.Should a major error such as No disk in drive occur then AmigaDos decides to wait for you to click the right mouse button,why I don't know,I think it could be a quirk with AmigaDos.Both the Load and Save commands have a number of options,listed below. Load: Mob1:Select this to load a file from the original Mobed.You cannot load 8*8 or 24*24 sized mobs from the original program.To load a file (and they are different formats) make a note of the size of the mobs and the number of planes and then save them out of the original as a binary file with mask but without blitter information.Then load Mobed2 set the Xsize and the Ysize of Mobed2 to the same as the file and the same number of planes.Then load the file.After you have converted the file it is good idea to save it as a Mobed2 file.Remember that the file you are loading from the original program will appear as shaded text in the directory box. Mob2:Select this to load a Mobed2 file,size and planes will be automatically set. Colour:Select this to load a palette file,palette files from the original Mobed can be loaded without any trouble,they are the same file format. However they will appear as shaded in the directory box. Once you have selected the required option click on Load. Save: Bin: (raw) save the file as pure binary without any mask information.File is recorded starting with mob00's 1st bitplane,then 2nd bitplane,after all of mob00's bit planes have been saved the program records mob01's planes and so on.No header is recorded unlike the original. Mask: Just like binary apart from mask information is saved at the end of the last bit plane of each mob. Sprite: Saves the mobs as sprite information blank words are added at the start and the end of each mob to act as control words and a longword at the end.Only mobs with a width of sixteen pixels can be converted to sprites and they must have either four or sixteen colours.When using sixteen colours mobed2 save two sprites for each mob,the second one holding the higher colour information. Mob2: Mobed2's custom file saves all relevant information with it and unlike the other mob files can be reloaded into Mobed2. Colour: Used for saving the current palette. Once you have made your selection click in the End box and type in the highest number of the mob you have edited.Now click on Save.It is very important to set the end value,or else you could end up saving only one mob and losing all the others that you have edited. When Mobed2 saves a file it doesn't do any file compression so you don't need to decompact any files. Commands and Effects -------------------- I shall go through all of the icons and give explanations and give keyboard shortcuts,I can't expect a beginner to remember what all of these commands do,so it would be a good idea just to experiment a little bit on your own, you should be able to suss out what most commands do. Sometimes using the right mouse button has a different affect to the left button.I shall give the title of the command followed by the key command in speech marks and use the abbreviations LB for left button and RB for right button,if I don't state LB or RB then both buttons have the same effect. Clear "DEL" : LB fills the current mob with colour 00 RB fills the current mob with the erasecol Copy "k" : LB copy mob number XX to current mob RB sets Copy mode,you can use different logical operators.Also move command allows you to move a set of mobs about. Insert "i" : LB Move all the mobs starting from the curent mob up one place,the highest numbered mob is lost.This command is useful if you need to add another frame of animation in the middle of a sequence. RB Moves all the mobs above the current mob down one place,current mob is overwritten by mob just above it.Useful for removing a frame of animation. Undo "u" : Usefull if you have made a mistake while drawing ,takes back last operation. Repeat "R" : Very powerful command allows you to perform an operation on a whole series of mobs,the operation can be altered slightly each time. Repeat has a number of sub windows accessable by clicking on one of the 10 Repeat commands. On most of the Repeated commands there is a start mob and end mob,also a starting value and a delta value.When a repeated operation occurs the operation starts at the start mob with the start value passed to the effect,once the first mob has been altered the program then moves to the next in the series,adds on the delta value and does the same operation,this continues until all the mobs in the series have been done. All the delta values can be treated as modulo numbers,negative numbers can be expressed as high positive numbers (the tutorial will make this clearer).The only exceptions to this are R-clear the function of which is pretty obvious and R-copy.R-copy repeatedly copies the source into a series,if you had a source of 34 and start mob of 65 end mob of 78 then mobs 65-78 inclusive would look the same as mob 34.When you use these commands be prepared for quite a wait especially if you are spinning large EHB mobs. Forcol "o" : Command allows you to select what colours Mobed2 uses for it's foreground and background. It would be pointless not being able to choose your foreground colour and background colour because it could affect the way you design your palette which could work out as hassle for things like collision detection.When you click on forcol the pointer changes showing you that it is ready for the colour selection,now click in the palette box.Use the left button to set the forcol and the right button for the borcol.When you have selected the required colours click outside the palette box.The cursor will now revert back to normal.I find it helps to choose my forcol and borcol as different shades of the screen colour,I find it easier to read especially as I have only got a TV and not a monitor. Size "Z" : Used to set the size of the mobs,note that when you adjust the size the currrent mobs in memory will be lost.The X-size is set by selecting one of the boxes,for the actual size in pixels multiply each number by 16.X-size can only be a multiple of 16 and no larger than 128.Y-size can be any number from 8 to 255 ($ff).The Clr+Set icon finalises the decision. Planes "P" : Used to adjust the number of bit-planes,just click on the required number of planes (EHB is six planes) and then on Clr+Set. View "v" : Clears the screen and displays upto 10 animated mobs at the same time.To reposition one of these mobs click on it with the left mouse button then move it to where you want to go and click the left mouse button once more.When you click with the right button a window is brought up.You can control the number of mobs displayed from here and the animations.For more information on animations read below.Press retrun to get back to the main screen. Anim "n" : Over to the right of the screen are three mobs,one of these is a proper version of what you see in the edit window,the other two are independent and can be animated.This command is usefull to see how the frames are fitting together and it can also be used to step through all the mobs so you know what you have already done.The Anim window has two numbers at the top they select which of the animated mobs you are affecting.There is a start mob value and an end mob value,these are self explanatory.The offset is used so that the pair of mobs can run through the same sequence of mobs (e.g. from 23 to 56) but be out of step.If your animations are out of step (or in the wrong step) then click on align,these will bring them into alignment,it won't affect the offset though.Active defines whether the mob is actually animating.Loop and Bounce define waht type of animation it is.With Loop the mob starts at the start value and is incremented until it reaches the end value,it is then restarted from the start.Bounce starts at the start value reaches the end value and then reverses direction back down to the start value then the sequence is repeated.Speed is measured in units of Vblanks. Pos "p" : You may want to change the positions of the mobs on the left.Click on pos and then click on the mob you need to move,click to place it elsewhere.For fine positioning you can use the arrow keys for single pixel movement.When you have animated mobs (especially high speed animations) they can flicker considerably (I could have buffered the screen but only at the expense of a lot of memory and speed).The best way to get around this is to place the essential mobs at the bottom of the screen or some place that the flicker is lessened. Swap "w" : Bit plane colour swap,can be used to swap certain colours over.Unlike the swap command inside the palette box this works on bit plane information and not cyclelists.The boxes on the left contain the list of colours to be swapped,the top colour is replaced by the second colour.The second colour replaced by the third and so on.To change these colours click in the number boxes to the right.The boxes furthest to the right define how many colours are swapped.If you only wanted the first colour to be changed into the second then click on the second box down.If you just want to swap two colours over then set the first two colours as the ones you want to swap and then set the third the same as the first and click on the third box down on the right. You should hopefull get use to this and find that it is quite a useful command that can save absolutely ages of work. Stretch "t" : Getting a bit more impressive these commands, this one is used for (suprise,suprise) stretching and squashing in one dimension (whether X or Y is your choice).The Horizontal and Vertical buttons show what direction the stretch will take place in.Factor is how much the mob will be stretched.Numbers below one shrink the mob and above one they enlarge it. You don't have to type the decimal point. Origin,now this is an interesting one,many of the more advanced commands have an origin control this defines which part on the mob is neutral, somewhere the command will not affect the mob. The pair of numbers represent offsets for the X-axis and Y-axis They are decimal numbers,can be positive or negative and are measured from the centre of the mob.Normally the origin is left as 0,0.Positive displacements are movements to the right for horizontal stretches and upwards (as in normal mathematical notation) for vertical stretches.Maybe an example will make things clearer if you have drawn a design in the left hand side of a mob and you now wish to expand it horizontally.Click on horizontal then change the Y-axis (Y affects horizontal stretching and X affects vertical,this may seem odd but it does work,honest) to a negative number,maybe -60 on a 128 pixel wide mob and then stretch it, remembering to set the stretch factor to whatever you require. Implode "j" : Very much like stretch but does both Y and X direction at the same time,usefull for explosion and z-scaling effects.Factor governs how much the mob is to be reduced by.This function implodes instead of explodes because you lose some definition in exploding,however an explosion can be produced by having a factor less than one. Origin forms the centre of the explosion (vanishing point of Z-scale). Mirror "m" : Pretty obvious this one,just select the type of mirror that you want and mirror your mob. Rotate "r" : Rotates the mob about the origin,there are three shortcut buttons of +90,-90 and 180 degrees.The degree can be positive or negative,just type it and click on rotate,like other advanced commands this can take a little bit of time.Commands involving degrees are specified as decimal numbers (in fact in any box with a sign will use decimal) Spin "s" : It's a good one this,uses a nice bit of maths as well.Spin tilts the mob about one of the axis producing a new image as if the old mob was a thin sheet and has now been tilted,Z-scaling is taken into account.Degree is how far round you want the mob to be spun.Mobed2 cannot spin through 90 or 270 degrees (this would just produce a blank mob) and so performs no operation when passed one of these values. Z-factor is how much the object is affected by 3D,7.00 is quite a reasonable starting point,the higher the number the bigger the effect,numbers above 8.50 produce a weird fish-eye effect, experimentation is really the best way to learn here,however Spin is one of the slowest functions Shear "x" : Origin sets the invariant lines.The mob is cut up into segments,each of which is given a displacement,this effect makes a square into a diamond.Segments sets the number of segments negative numbers here give negative displacements to the segments. Shadow "h": This will save time if you are drawing one of them spaceships wot have a shadow following them,alternatively it can be used just to beef up a flat picture,giving it depth.Shadow works by drawing a shillouette of the current mob in the colour specified DeltaX pixels to the right and DeltaY pixels down from the original.The original is not overwritten,the shadow is only drawn where there is background colour.Shadow works best with a dark colour as the shadow colour and DeltaX and Deltay are about 2. Load "L" : Load a file Save "S" : Save a file Maped "m" : Gosh aren't you lucky,not only do you have a mob editor but you have got a Map editor as well.Before you can enter the editor you must have 100K of fastmem free and be using either $10*$10 or $20*$20 sized mobs.The upper half of the Maped screen is the control panel,moving from left to right the things are. Display box:shows the current mob Mob : holds the current mob number,click in to change and to return to drawing mode after being in block or cut. X and Y : Shows the last position of the pointer in coordinates starting from the upper left of the map.Note that coordinates "wrap-around". X and Y : Shows the dimensions of the current map,just click and type to change the dimensions. Block : Number shows the mob used when drawing a block click here if you need a solid block of colour. Cut : As in Mobed but works on the map Paste : Sticks the cut section onto the map Load : Load a Maped file ,there are no options apart from Load Save : Save a Maped file,files are saved starting at the top left and then are saved line by line. Remove : Takes the control panel away and allows you to see the whole picture. Return : Returns you back to the main program. Drawing in maped is simply point in the map area and press the left mouse button,to draw blocks and to cut follow the same procedure as drawing a rectangle.To move yourself around the map use the arrow keys or a joystick plugged into the other port. Other commands: Pressing "M" brings up a window about the mouse,if you would prefer it to move faster or slower then click on the X and Y ratios,on no account set these as 0,you could end up with a seriously stuck mouse.A high ratio means that the mouse moves quickly in that direction. Underneath the palette box are four arrows,these scroll the mob,they do NOT have the same affect as the arrow keys or the keypad arrow keys.The scrolling functions in Mobed2 are thankfully a whole load faster than the original.All they do is shift the mob in the direction of the arrow.One last bit,the cycling window can be accessed by pressing "y". Author ------ This is my bit to be egotistical and spell things however I like.All very well but I can't think of anything to write. If you actually code something really super and use Mobed2 to design your sprites then a hidden message would be quite nice.This message is very important,if you should see a person called Clare Embling on your travels (she will be doing a course at a University,something electrical) then ask her why she didn't paint a picture of my thingies (not those thingies you perv!).Try and get her to E-mail me at the University of East Anglia,i'm in the SYS school.I will only read the file if she gives me her middle name (your parents either have a twisted sense of humour or are just plain sadistic).Also ask her if she found out what PSD means,I don't think I have given any clues on this disk. Hello to Jim (who will neraly certainly read this file) (and point out that nearly is spelt N E A R L Y) and my sister (that's a long story) Mel.Next on the chopping board is an SFX editor (i've already tried it once but failed,this time i'll get it right).Anyone know where I can get a cheap Fiesta Mk1 body shell?Anyone want to sell me a 100Mb 10ms hard disk for 50 quid?Can anyone tell me why I got a C in my maths A-level and a B in my further maths A-level.And while i'm on the unexplained i'm missing three pairs of snot coloured socks,has anyone found the 'Sock and Paperclip' dimension (it's the same one that the piece of string in your pocket has to pass through to form a triple reef knot with added GPO power).Gosh look at that,i'm on the 815th line of this text file already,Mobed2's source code weighed in at over 11,000 lines and over 200K.It would have been shorter but i'm a slow typer (figure that one out).Anyway enough waffle or i'm going to miss Hale and Pace,till I see you in the tutorial or my next program goodbye.If you want to reach me then try UEA but they will probably tell you to clear off. It's O.k. don't worry about the socks an Alien craft has just dropped them off.Something about needing them to travel through the 6th dimension and thus side stepping the fourth. * * * * * Well that was written in 1991,it is now April,1992.After absolutely no response what so ever from the magazines this is being submitted into the public domain.Shareware does NOT work in this country,I got absolute flap all for Mobed.Therefore feel free to distribute it as you like as long as you don't make any money.I actually have an address at the university now,if you would like to send me some mail or money or booze (I would say drugs as well but I would get done for it so I won't). Martin Jones SYS University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7TJ or if you want to be flash (also I stand more chance of replying coz I don't need a stamp) then e-mail me. janett::uk.ac.uea.computing-centre::u9117784 My mail name is "Ermintrude the Cow".If you do send me some e-mail then be prepared to get junk mail back. Do not feel obliged to send me anything I would be quite pleased just to get a hello (Whether I answer or not is a different matter altogether).Some where on this disk is another program but that is up to you to find.It will only be hard for a novice.I desperately need the bodyshell now as my car has no MOT and no Tax,but I have found a way of getting them cheap.Clare is at Imperial college so if anyone is at imperial and doing an electronics course say hello for us.Hello Mr Floppy how are u ? (that was a greeting,honest).Oh by the way beige is the most horrible colour ever,why is it used so much???Sure it's neutral and business like but it's also