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With the default characters, mzx_speed 2 lava is a possible seizure hazard. A way to slow down just the visual animations of tiles like lava, without slowing down robots, seems desirable.

I can think of two possible implementation strategies: a set-and-forget numeric divisor on animation speed, or a way to freeze animations and then manually single-step them forward.

(It's possible there's already some other way to achieve the desired effect that I haven't thought of.)

Noser, on 01 May 2024 - 03:42 PM, said:

I think a general overhaul of the built ins EDIT CHARS menu could cover a lot of edge cases, possibly doing some house cleaning on damages, too.
For instance not only animation speed for animated elements, but there's missing items such as spider webs and lines. Furthermore, it could be considered to add SCROLL graphic pieces in there as well. It's in the code already, why not just tie some menus in the relevant area? It's tedious to implement, obviously, but it makes sense to be there from my noobie braindead chair.

EDIT: And I just had another pie in the sky idea about the DOS version in the EDITOR (I suspect the dos editor is far from any considerations in 2024, but hey...a dude can hope), but being able to 'lock' or edit some of the editor colors to work with the board colors/characters might be useful as well. I actually am amazed at some of the games that were made back in the day how they were when I load them up and the editor is damn near unusable.

This post has been edited by hseiken: 10 November 2024 - 03:56 AM