Re: More thoughts about Lode Runner & other multiload games...

[Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co>]

A little more on LR - someone suggested that using the LC for levels would 
make it incompatible with ProDOS...

Not as I'll do it.  Of course it'll erase ProDOS from memory - the levels 
need to go there - but it will load entirely within the 0800-95FF "safety 
zone" and should theoretically load fine on any OS.  Anyone familiar with 
my crunching techniques will notice that the files have a BASIC stub like 
Commodore programs... ensuring it loads no lower than 0801, and that even 
a DOS which lacks a BRUN command, like RDOS, can use it.  Naturally, I'll 
be compressing Lode Runner.

The other option is to keep a file in the current directory.  (There's an 
issue with BASIC.SYSTEM where it eats the prefix.  Obviously I woule need 
to work around that.)  Each call to read or write would be converted to a 
ProDOS open-seek-read-close or open-seek-write-close.  Still, I would gut 
the editor, and make it a separate utility.

-uso.