The ropes in JSW

Dave Batty

Just watching the latest JSW mod rzxs from the archive and I remembered how good the ropes were in JSW - nobody came close in achieving that level of realism in rope simulation :smile:

how did MS generate the look up tables for these ropes? anyone know?

BloodBaz

Not sure, but compared to Ocean's Hunchback (a game that centred around ropes) they were 10,000x better.

Any what was that "SUPER BONUS" text all about?

dm_boozefreek

If Hunchback had've had the JSW ropes it may have been playable :D

But I never really liked it much cos' it seemed a little unpredictable.

The answers as to how the ropes are set up could be right in front of you just looking at them with John Elliotts JSWED? Or at least an insight into the mechanics, as they are fully editable (is that a real word?).

Skarpo

Sir Fred was annoying* to control but the ropes were "simulated" decently.

Skarpo
:-)
*substitute "annoying" with "near impossible"

omega

Rope in Jack the Nipper in cocconut cappers were as well very nice.

andrewbroad

Great minds such as John Elliott, J.G. Harston, Geoff Eddy and Carl Woffenden have studied ropes in JSW:
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/willy/disassemblies.html

They seem to hinge around a lookup-table at #8300-83FF, with the rope-handling code at #90D9-9132.

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