GAUNTLET EDITOR by Menno van der Star from Your Sinclair #31 (July 1988) [files GAUNEDIT.*] Remember the very first Program Pitstop way, way back in the good ol' days? Yeah? Nope? Don't care? Well anyway some dude called David McCandless wrote a little ditty that mapped each level of Gauntlet. You remember! Hurrayyyhh! How could you forget. Anyway, Menno van der Star has taken the best features from the program (namely the graphics) and written an interesting program that allows you to edit the levels of Gauntlet and play them yourself. Throwing The Gauntlet Okay, the question that is first and foremost in your mind is, how do I do it? First thing to do is type in and save the main editor program, the program entitled Play and the other program called Save. Okay now the next bit is fairly complicated so listen carefully. Your Own Levels To design your own levels you use the main editor program. Load it in (it'll run automatically). You will be greeted by a grid of pixels and a cursor blipping in the top left-hand corner of the screen. Use the cursor keys to direct the cursor around the grid and use keys A-Z (press DELETE to see what they represent) to place stuff like walls, switches and so on. Press 1 and a description of what the cursor is placed on will appear. Press 2 and you can toggle the "increase cursor" option. When this is 0, the cursor won't move when you place a character, but it'll move if it is set to 1. Press 3 and two essential walls enclosing the level appear. Press 4 and you'll be able to load in a level you've pinched from Gauntlet or saved yourself. Press ENTER and editing will halt, and allow you to save. Unfortunately you can't place Deaths on your level, change the colour and/or design of the walls or change the start position from the top left-hand corner. Play Your Levels Once you've saved a level of your own design or edited a nicked one, then load the Play program; it will autostart. After loading, remove the tape and insert your Gauntlet original and play that from the start. Everything will be the same except for the loading process. You'll see the message "level ..." appear. Now you can load in your own levels. Gauntlet's Levels Right, don your striped vest, balaclava, and get your big sack marked 'swag' - we're off to do some nicking. Load in the Save program and then play the Gauntlet original from the start. Play as normal (load in level, bash ghosts, get killed ...) but now, if you press V, the computer will save the current level to screen [sic. JimG] straightaway - so have your tape running beforehand. The Editor Okay, this is the Editor (very pretty, isn't she?). Type it in and save it with SAVE "GEDITOR" LINE 10 [Sigh. This should be LINE 9600. JimG]. Save This program allows you to save off Gauntlet levels. Save it with SAVE "SAVE" LINE 10. Play This program allows you to load in your own levels. Save it with SAVE "PLAY" LINE 10.