Date   : Tue, 03 May 2005 21:22:47 +0100
From   : "JohnA" <john.abbey@...>
Subject: Re: BBC B/Electron Chuckie Egg queries

Hi Peter,

With the pokes in place, the score,bonus and time are all corrupt from the
start.

Also, if you fall down the "lift shaft" on level three, you just keep
falling.....

Regards,
JohnA.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Edwards" <samwise@...>
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 12:00 AM
Subject: RE: [BBC-Micro] BBC B/Electron Chuckie Egg queries


> > When Harry falls
> > down a hole he
> > re-appears at the top and then continues falling to the bottom again
> > (falling *through* all the platforms) then goes back to the
> > top and so on.
> > It does this eight times, shifting left a little every four
> > descents and
> > then Harry finally stops falling by landing on a platform at
> > the top of the
> > screen.
>
> Yeah, that's the behaviour I get from BeebEm.
>
> > It beats me why you'd wanna use the cheat though - the score
> > is corrupted so
> > you can't even use it to say "look at my score" !!!
>
> Ah, now that's interesting - none of the emulators I've tried have any
> display corruption - there's certainly nothing wrong with the score.  Does
> it just change characters?  Does it only corrupt when you fall through the
> screen or does it corrupt just by using the poke - on level 1, for
example?
>
> > Out of interest, what are the emulators doing?
> >
> > Regards,
> > JohnA.
>
> Well, BeebEm behaves as you describe - without the score corruption.
MESS,
> on the other hand, just kills you off as if it was a normal game.  I
haven't
> tried any others, mainly because I wasn't sure I'd trust the results ...
>
> Many thanks for helping out,
>
> Peter.
>
>
>