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- DCCNVT2.EXE
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- - The DCCNVT2 utility will upgrade an adventure created with releases
- 1.30 of DCGAMES to release 2.00.
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- - Release 2.00 had considerable internal changes from previous releases.
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- - This utility will run in a 'SAFE' mode, which will create temporary
- files during translation and only rename the translated files after
- all files have been processed, to minimize the risk of ending up
- with a partially translated adventure.
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- - If you don't have enough disk space to run the 'SAFE' mode, you
- can override the option and each file will be translated and
- replaced in turn.
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- - A third parameter can be used to specify the graphics block in
- the new DCOBJECT.xxx graphics files containing the first vehicle.
- In previous releases vehicles were located in records 80 to 8F
- (hexadecimal) but they are treated like normal objects in this
- release. If you have modified your graphics files to contain
- additional graphics objects beyond those provided originally,
- you need to specify the first empty location, which is where
- vehicle blocks would go when you run the SPLTGRPH utility. Note
- that when you run the SPLTGRPH utility, it will tell you the
- location of the vehicle blocks to be used in running DCCNVT2!
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- DEFAULT is 23.
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- - A fourth parameter can be used to specify a new location in the
- statistics file for the first of 4 consecutive statistics blocks
- to be used in the generation of random monsters. The statistics
- blocks are used for small, medium and large monsters, and pirate
- ships respectively.
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- DEFAULT is 20
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- - A fifth parameter can be used to specify a new location in the
- statistics file for the first of 3 consecutive records containing
- backpacks to be used for the generation of random treasure. The
- default statistics records contain POTIONS, RINGS/AMULETS and
- MAGIC STAFFS respectively.
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- DEFAULT is 30
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- Example:
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- DCCNVT2 SAFE
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- This example performs safe translation.
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- Example 2:
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- DCCNVT2 ONSITE
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- This example performs onsite translation.
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- Example 3:
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- DCCNVT2 SAFE 56
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- This example performs safe translation and overrides the vehicle
- location. The default location is 23.
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- Example 4:
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- DCCNVT2 SAFE 23 20 45
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- This example overrides the location of the 3 random treasure
- generators.
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- The ! is necesary to indicate that you know what you are doing. You
- should make a backup copy of your adventure before you try to run
- this utility, just in case something goes wrong. Should translation
- stop during the execution of this utility, some portions of the game
- would be translated and others not, which would make it very difficult
- to recover, thus a backup is indicated.
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