--The caves now will packed when you save them. So you can put more on one disc. The level editor now is packed too. Of cause you can load the old unpacked one.
--One can load the caves from the professional editor.
-V2.4:
--The most of the tools supports up to eight drives.
--There is a new flootfill routine. :-)
--The editor has an accelerating joystick pointer.
--Autoscrolling in level editor for mouse and joystick.
--Printable manual.
Funktions for all editors:
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All programmes can you load from the menu. You have to load the files from the level editor in this way. (cause drive test and drive settings.) plug the mouse, if you have it, in port 1. The joystick have to pluged in port 2. (port 1 needs a joystick in the ready game. It is so since the beginning of Boulder Dash.)
For the joystick input you have to press the spacebar for the 2nd mouse button.
If any disc drive hanged up you have to press "restore" .In an emergency reset the drive!
de Luxe construction kit: :-)
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Left mouse button: select forwart in menus.
Right mouse button (firebutton): select back in menus, pull down menus, setting in game area.
Press the F-key to floot fill the area under the pointer with the actual element.
element:
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-Always if you select any set mode the editor remembers the actual condition of the cave for the "undo" command. It also remembers when you change colours, when you empty the cave, when you play the cave, when you load anything or when you floot fill.
-By the right magic wall, the amueba will finish to grow. (you have only to click on it. If you already set the other magic wall you haven't to set again. It isn't possible to use both magic walls in the same cave.)
-You can set fireflys and butterflys in different directions.
Disk:
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-load: You can edit on an axisting cave. the formats of my older editors and of the professional editor will automaticaly converted. If you click outside of the appearing devicenumber box you use the marked number.
-save: saves the actual cave.
-Directory: Displays a disc contens screenwise.
-send command: to delete files, format discs etc.. Use your disc drive manual!
others:
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-undo: If you make a mistake in the cave (load, wrong set mode, bad colours etc.), the remembered contition will be activated.
-empty cave: If you want to create a new cave or intermission.
-colours: do not use bad combinations! the colours 1 till 4 should different. So one can see all details in the cave.
-Play cave: Test the cave well before it will be used in the game! (I have seen caves one can't play. Cause no settings of diamands needed etc.
-quit programme: If you quit the editor by mistake you have to load the menu in 64'er mode (load with "load":*",8,2"! Do not boot in 128'er mode!) and select "restart kit with old level"!
effects: :->
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-set: A requester will appear.
-standard: All effects will be normal. Amuebesize etc., too. Be careful with these option!
parameters:
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Follow the instructions in the requester!
Edit title where you select Caves:
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You can use all options with the F-keys! Follow the texts in the pulldown menus!
disc:
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All these funktions remember screen contition for the "undo" command.
-load: To edit on already existing screens.
-save: to save. (What did you think about it?)
-Main menu: The actual screen will be lost when you answer the following question in the affirmative.
-Directory: To list the disc directory.
mode:
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-letters: To write normal letters. The border coloured red.
-Big letters: To write big letters. The border coloured green.
-graphics: To write letter pieces. The border coloured blue. The following character are very vital:
at= Background pattern
C = Letter area
H = Left letter edge
I = up sloping
J = down sloping
Do not use reverse characters!
-colours: Use the keys 1 - 7 and the line under this (select back) to change colours.
1 = Border
2 = Background
3 = Multicolor 1
4 = Multicolor 2
5 = Line under the cursor
6 = any cave
7 = last played cave
-undo: The old contition will appear. It will remember when you use any option in the "disc"-menu.
Creat cavepacks:
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You need 20 Caves!
Name of discs and catalogue will aotomatcally apear when you insert any disc. You can scroll the list with the arrow-gadgets. The number on the right of this number changes the to use device number. On the right of this number apears the version of the editor where the cave was made and the type (cav/int). You can load a cave by clicking on its name. Place it on the right in the cave pack box! You can change the names on the pointer by typing on the keyboard. The two last columns appear in blue. These columns don't appear in the game. You can change the y/n line by clicking. It means which caves you can select in the game. Caves which already set you can repick and copy on any other place in this way. At last write the text to save on the pointer and click on save with the pointer text. (Perhaps you have to pick any cave to type letters.) (After saving the version numbers don't appear because they will overwritten with the cavenames.) You can leave the editor with the exit gadget in the upper left hand corner.
make introscreen:
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It is not nessesary! But you can write greetings lists, texts about the game etc..
Colour changes will be saved only if you make them in the menu!
-edit introscreen: To use the editor and exit it by pressing return!
-colours: To change colours of cause.
-Show Dir, Save, Exit: as usually (ever still the same.)
Make Boulder Dash Game:
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To load all the files and pack them to one file.
-Show dir, send command, exit: (Didn't we already have it?)
"OK" appears if the loading is corectly done.
:-> The cave pack must (technical cause) already loaded if you load the select screen. In other wise the game won't correctly work. (A save way is it to load line wise like on the screen)
After "save as" will apear begin, end and start of the gamefile. (dec & hex) It's vital for compressors, crunchers etc.. If any tool needs the value $01 type 55 in hexadecimal. After saving look at the disc-status! (170 kB are very quikly full.) If you get "disc full" use any other disc or make space with "send command"!
If you use the coming compressor you should use the packers 1 and 3! The startsys is by this version always 8105 and the $01 value is 55.
