Ron Field
 Thanks a lot for sending the survival kit.  Both my wife and I are
 playing Ishar on our Falcons.  Your map program runs fine on ST low
 on the Falcon.  Your Character editor works really good except for
 the commands on the bottom-Edit, Next Character, etc. don't get
 high lighted so you can't where your at, but will work if you keep
 count of your arrow keys.  It seems like you did this kit for an
 ST, rather than a Falcon because it seems it is playing a little 
 different on the Falcon.  Where you go in the Forbidden Room and 
 one character dies then or later?, on the Falcon all five people
 start slowly dying.  We haven't discovered what will stop this from
 happening.  In Fimnurih Forest there is a Lizard Man in the 
 clearing near the last h in the name on the map, he has some special
 magic rings (5).  You need the Helm of Light (in our game it is 
 called the Helmet of Vision.  Your Character Editor helped us out a
 lot cause on the Falcon program there is a bug that makes your
 levels revert to level 2 when you first reload the game unless you
 reload twice and be sure to save game only when your true level is
 showing.  Thanks again.
 
>Eric March 


I am glad you enjoyed it.  Yes, I did make  it for the ST rather than a
Falcon.  I don't have a Falcon (I wish...) and at the time I wrote the
character editor they still weren't out in Canada.  So I wrote it generally
for the Atari ST/e machines.  But it is n ice to know that my editor works for
the Falcon version of the game; I at least now have confirmation of this.
  The reason the options may not get highlighted may  be beacuse of the fact
that I use VT-52 commands to print the inverse text; they may not work as well
since the Falcon uses VT-52E(xtended) mode.  I also wasn't very knowledgable
about doing graphics when I wrong that program; given the chance I could make
the program far better now than I could have then.  (I may still yet write an
editor for Ishar II: Messengers of Doom if I feel the urge... but right now
I'm completely wrapped up in trying to get my ANSI screen editor in workable
condition...)
  As for the differences... strange how they changed it like that.  The cabin,
on the ST version, only kills one character, and does it within, say, two or
three minutes of leaving the cabin.  The character it kills appears to be the
last one that joined your party... or it could be some o ther factor, but that
seemed to be the best guess at the time that I could make.  I never figured
out a way to prevent it, either.
  I didn't know about the monster in Fimnurih forest, though; somehow I lost
the Helm of Light, so perhaps that was the problem.

Anyway.  Enjoy the editor... sorry to hear about the bugs in the Falcon
version; I've never been a fan of sloppy programming.  :-)

diehl@io.org
(DragonLord)