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- From: torh@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Tor Houghton)
- Subject: Re: Colour UMoria 5.4.0
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.062459.966@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
- Organization: University of Sussex
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- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 06:24:59 GMT
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- Edouard Poor (epoo1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz) wrote:
-
- :
- : >Does Colour UMoria support any of the below?
- : >
- : >"save but don't quit"
- :
- : No. It isn't really in keeping with the original flavour of the game, but
- : if enough people hassled me I guess I could put something like that in (along
- : with menus--and more importantly restart code, so moria starts with no
- : gane running, and lets you load one, quit then load another without
- : exiting the application itself.)
-
- PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE. (or maybe not. I have now 5 different
- non-archimedes users hooked to the archimedes just because of that
- game... :)
-
- Good job, Edouard!
-
-
- : >multiple saved players
-
-
-
- : Well, yes, but as it stands you have to (a) rename the file by hand to
- : "SavedGame", or (b) put the save file on the command line, possibly by
- : having more than one !UMoria app (ie !UMoriaBob) whose !Run file has
- : Run <Obey$Dir>.!RunImage <Obey$Dir>.Bob or similar in it...
- :
-
- I know... *sigh*
-
- : >ok 16 colour representation
- :
- : Ummm, It has good hand-tuned colours for all the monster, potion, staff, etc
- : colour (took me ages I can tell you) as well as full 24-bit version so that
- : in 256 colour mode (esp. with RO3 dithering on) everthing is abot as
- : close to the real colours as you could expect (I must admit it looks
- : good on a 24 bit mac display [for playing moria... Yes...])
- :
- : Edouard
-
- Good, because my A4 won't like too many colours! ;)
-
- Umm - any chance of mailing the lot to me (by floppy would be nice... --
- or if there is a an FTP site (tell me what dir it resides in too,
- please)
-
- Cheerio,
-
-
-
- Tor.
-
- PS: Scanner 1.56 is out "real soon" now.
-
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