beforehand is what i was planning on anyways. i think i might have an idea for a different algorithm, though(running it past kerm)
thanks, builder!

ok, it's looking like unit 533D is going to have some hella-massive map sizes, so i was wondering...
what would be a compression algorithm well suited to a one byte per tile, 8 bites tall by n bytes wide(where n is >=13), and quite a bit of variance in tile types(so rle wouldnt work all that well)

On an unrelated note, but related to the site itself, we have modified EzPortal a little bit to get rid of the Unread Replies and Posts links in the info center.

0_o
so THAT's where those buttons went

i spent several minutes looking around for them yesterday and then concluded that i was just being senile and they must have been features on some other site

/\seco-
err
thirdended

and a surviving sheet from sprite brainstorming(i got a bit bored there at the end)

/\this
there's also a bit of a story related to that. i was messing around with full screen pseudo gray stuff(the same method which i ended up using later useing on those large pics) with a resized, 96*64 megaman pic. i manually converted it to monochrome(black on dark pixels, white on lighter), and when i had done the whole thing(or so i thought) switched the format to monochrome bitmap for conversion with ti's picture thing. however, i missed the eyes(they were a very light tan, but i thought they were white) and so when it converted they came out as entirely black. it was one of the most terrifying things ever.

oh, and im at the libry until 6 tonight, so i'll definitely do some work on the jump-man engine. im not going to post anything until it looks somewhat like the end product, though(so sprites, gray, and all that). thanks for comments

[pan across dilapidated factory and come to rest looking at 533D]
You awaken in a rusting heap of scraps and spare parts, with no recollection of how or why you got there. Your joints are creaking and need to be oiled. There is an incessant, barely audible thudding noise beating its way into your logic circuits, and you're fairly certain that you've been dreaming about it for some time now. However, it has been difficult to tell if you're asleep or if your anterior cameras are just switched off as of late because your graphics card was fried in the accident.
wait...THE ACCIDENT!
you and your girlfriend 134F were riding to work in an industrial transport unit...

and then you woke up here...4 years later?! That CANT be right. Your clock must be miscalibrated.
[begin level 1:The Factory]

here is a screenie of the proof-of-concept jumpman engine(i set it to 3 level gray to make the walking/jumping animations easier to see, so the ground looks messy when moving. this can currently run at 6mhz, but im going to be adding in a LOT of special cases for special tiles[spikes and such{it wouldnt be much of a puzzle-platformer without those, would it?}], so it looks like it's SE only from here on out)


attached are also a few pics from the old celtic version(very little survived)
they are respectively
a primitive version of the credit sequence(one with text and multiple characters existed at one point)
two of the many larger than screen, pan across while displaying in pseudo gray during cut scenes pics
and a surviving sheet from sprite brainstorming(i got a bit bored there at the end)

/\that will take some doing
nicely done, btw's yunhua

I have to do this in my code:

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while getKey(0)
Pause 50
EndOtherwise it exits the loop randomly :O

dittoes(i was getting a bit frustrated about it last night)...