From:	Robert Watkins <robertdw@*******.NET.AU>
Subject:	Re: Madness
Date:	Fri, 6 Dec 1996 11:34:06 +1100

>> >Drawbacks:
>> >- right now _needs_ windows 95/NT (actually i didn't try for win 3.X,
>> >because I dont have it any longer :_)
>> Not cool:( Don't have Win'95 yet (can't run applets, either:(
>
>Perhaps you might try Win32S, dunno if it works...

If you haven't embedded API calls all throughout the code, it would be
relatively simple to take the 16 bit version of VB 4.0 (included in the
Professional edition), convert the API calls, and recompile.

>> >- uses Access-databases via the Jet-engine (ODBC)
>> Does this mean you need a special prog to access/edit the data files? That
>> would be bad:(
>
>That will be included with the distribution mix...
>
>> Howsabout user-defined adepts, spells, etc.
>A spell "editor" with the spell generation rules from grimoir is
>already done. totems can be defined in the database (regarding spell
>modifiers). user-defined adepts is somewhat impossible...
>
>> you be including bonuses/penalties from totems (for instance, double Essence
>> loss for Eagle shamans)?
>
>Hmmm.... such boni/penalties must be "hard"coded in the program, and
>as i dont have the descrips for those Eagle shamans or other types of
>shamans, it would be hard to implement

Include a few rules... Times x multipler for cyber?


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