From: rps92@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Richard Swann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sinclair Subject: Jet Set Willy Editor Instructions Date: 11 Mar 1994 16:57:36 -0000 Since you're probably wondering what that last uuencoded post of mine contains, I'll tell you. [That's this zip file --Arnt] Upon uuencoding and unzipping said post you'll be presented with four files: jswed1.bas jswed2.bas jswed1c.cde jswed2c.cde The two .bas files are Spectrum BASIC files, the first one is the basic for the Block Editor and the second one is the basic for the Sprite Editor The Block editor needs the file jswed1c.cde The Sprite editor needs the files jswed1c.cde and jswed2c.cde The first statement in each BASIC program loads in the machine code files. However since I took these files straight off tape they read LOAD "" CODE You'll have to change this to LOAD *"m";1;"jswed1c"CODE or whatever if you're using a disk drive Having managed to get this far, you'll then be asked to load in the file "jsw1" which is the machine code file off the original Jet Set Willy tape. This file has start 32768 and length 32768 - so you can save it to disk if you want RIGHT! I've probably scared everybody off now, but hopefully I'll convert the listings into ASCII BASIC and ASCII hex dumps for non techy geeks over the weekend! As for the instructions, I've taken them straight from the issue of YS they were printed in : BLOCK EDITOR The program you have in front of you is the Block Editor, and with this you can alter the room layouts, anmes, and where they exit to. Load it in, and when it asks for the JSW tape, load in the main machine code block (called jsw). Done that? Then you'll be able to see a prompt asking you which screen you want to edit. I imagine a map would be handy at this stage, but just to start you off, the bathroom (where you start) is room number 33. Type in your room number, and up comes a representation of the room, with equal signs for conveyors, apostrophies for stairs and stars for items. And down there at the bottom - see it? - is the lovely little Main Menu. Let's look at the least complicated options first : 2) CHOOSE A NEW SCREEN TO EDIT - dead easy 3) FILE OPTIONS - the test play option gives you infinite lives, fall forever, Attic Bug removed, and the teleport feature (which we haven't got room to describe), but make sure you've saved your screens before you use it 1) EDIT - This is the real meat of the program (quoth me), and is similar to the Manic Miner Editor routine. What you'll now see in addition to the room is a little cursor that you can move around using 5,6,7 and 8. Below this, you'll see what is is that your cursor is currently pointing at. This may be either C (a conveyor belt), S (stairs), K (an item - otherwise known as a key) or a number, in which case it's referring to one of the following blocks : 0 (air - you can jump through it but can't stand on it) 1 (wall - you can stand on it but you can't jump through it) 2 (water - you can stand on it and jump through it) or 3 (death - touch it and you lose one of your lives) Phew! Having digested that a lot, you can then move the cursor around and insert new blocks by pressing 0 (zero), and choosing from the block numbers above. You can define a conveyor belt by pressinc C - type the x and y co-ords, the length (0 will make it disappear) and the direction (0 = left, 1 = right). Move the stairs by pressing S - again you're asked for the x and y co-ords and the length, but this time the directions are as follows : 0 = up/left, 1 = up/right. To change the item positions, the items are numbered 0-82 - pressing F on the edit menu shows you which items are in your room, and pressing M lets you move an item to a different room. Then press K to fix the item's co-ords. Screen links - something JSW has that Manic Miner lacked - can be easily manipulated to your advantage. In the bottom right hand corner is a sort of compass thing that shows which room you can exit to in each direction. It's possible to exit in any direction from every room, although in the default game a lot of the exits are blocked up. If you're in to ddep already, you needn't worry about this bit as the game already has a logical rom linking system. If you feel the need, however, just press X and then enter the new rooms numbers Finally, to change the screen name, press N and to remove all the nasties press D. You might need to do this if you want to test play your room and you've changed it so that a monster walks into a wall (because the program treats collision of any two objects as death) THE SPRITE EDITOR Run this, and load in the jsw file as described above (this can also be a set of levels saved with the block editor). Once done, you're back on familiar ground - enter the number of the room you wish to edit and you'll se a piccy of it with the baddies and their paths both shown. Then it's menu time - options 3 and 4 do the same as options 2 and 3 in the block editor. The other two are: 1) NASTIES - this lets you edit the moving nasties in each room. The nasties are numbered 1-111, and you can use each nasty once and only once in each room (except for room 63 which appears to be reserved - any ideas why?) The sub options here are: c - create (add) a nasty. Type the number of the nasty you want inserted and up he'll pop. No more than seven nasties on one screen though please (unless you like crashing the program!) d - delete the last nasty you added a - assign a different number to a nasty in the room. You'll be asked which nasty you want to change (1 = first nasty created, 2 = second etc) and the new nasty number (1-62,64-111) e - edit the nasties. You'll be asked whether you want your nasty to move left/right (0) or up/down (1). Then type in the initial and limit co-ordinates. The initial co-ordinates are the x and y values of where your nasty begins, and the limit co-ordinates are the x OR y values (depending on whether it's left/right or up/down) that the nasty can move to before turning round and going back 2) DEFINING SPRITES First you have to enter the initial sprite used, and then the number of animation frames. This may need a little explanation - any nasty that changes its shape as it moves is using several frames of animation and cycling through them. If you entered 100 as the initial sprite, then 2 for the animation frames, then you'd then have to design your sprite in sprites 100 and 101, one for each bit of animation. See? Anyway, the last thing is the colour of your sprite (0-7). Try making the colour of the sprite different from the background colour - it'll help immensley! :-) Right, any problems with that then give me a buzz sometime..... -- __ _____ )___ ,--,__________( \_/ \. /____) )__ ) ) ';;;-----------,=====(=)| | / \ . / _ /__ . _ / (Piccy by TheBeast) (_/~~\_____/' ( \ ( ( (_ / ) ( (-' . Ritchie Swann,86,Broadlands Road,Swaythling,Southampton,SO2 3AR Email : rps92@ecs.soton.ac.uk, phone (0703) 581429