Which editor to use for standard ZZT?
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Which editor to use for standard ZZT?
KevEdit or ZZTAE? I assume the two are largely similar, so what's the marginal advantage of each?
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Kevedit has copy/paste.
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Yeah, KevEdit totally outstrips ZZTAE. CyQ lost interest in the latter, while bitman kept developing KevEdit.
Newest version of KevEdit (0.5.1) can be screwy with the protected mode under DOS. Some people (myself included) noted things like errors when pressing 'B' for board information.
I use 0.5.1's beta, instead, which bitman gave me about a year ago. It's pretty much a perfect KevEdit.
Newest version of KevEdit (0.5.1) can be screwy with the protected mode under DOS. Some people (myself included) noted things like errors when pressing 'B' for board information.
I use 0.5.1's beta, instead, which bitman gave me about a year ago. It's pretty much a perfect KevEdit.
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DOS normally interprets a character with a high-intensity background as a blinking character. If you have blinkx loaded, however, it'll appear as having a bright background.
(also you can press k in kevedit to get a color selection box)
also you may want to back up your game regularly if using kevedit; even the latest version has (extremely rarely) crashed while saving on me. it only seemed to happen if i'd been moving around or importing a lot of boards
(also you can press k in kevedit to get a color selection box)
also you may want to back up your game regularly if using kevedit; even the latest version has (extremely rarely) crashed while saving on me. it only seemed to happen if i'd been moving around or importing a lot of boards
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Here's the beta MadTom was talking about:
http://bitman.freeshell.org/download/ke ... .5.1-beta/
We fixed a bunch of pretty obvious bugs, but there were no new features so I never could motivate Kev to make an official release out of it.
http://bitman.freeshell.org/download/ke ... .5.1-beta/
We fixed a bunch of pretty obvious bugs, but there were no new features so I never could motivate Kev to make an official release out of it.
j_hunter: As quiet as this forum usually is, it's bad form to revive a thread that's been abandoned for some months.
Go introduce yourself, by the way:
http://zzt.org/fora/viewtopic.php?t=584
Go introduce yourself, by the way:
http://zzt.org/fora/viewtopic.php?t=584
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