• Dr. Evil Laboratories

  • by kentsu

This blog recounts the history of Dr. Evil Laboratories, the creator, manufacturer, and retail sales of peripherals and software for the Commodore 64, including the Imagery! adventure game system, the SID Symphony Stereo cartridge, and the Swiftlink-232 cartridge.

Nov
24

Imagery! Adventure Designer Feature List

Dr. Evil's special guest (soon to be henchman) Kyle shares a somewhat-longer list of feature requests for the adventure designer. Please add to this list via comments!

Once the list is stable, we'll roll these into the same new version as for bug fixes.

Menu

  1. Provide an exit to BASIC option. Maybe also offer a reboot option to restore standard Kernal and BASIC ROMs.

Intro editor

  1. Change menu navigation to be cursor driven, like other two editors.
  2. Add text wrap for the description editor.
  3. Instead of exiting to BASIC, go back to the Menu program.

Library editor

  1. For long processes, such as loading a library:
    1. Show a progress indicator to verify it's not frozen.
    2. Add a way to abort.
  2. Instead of exiting to BASIC, go back to the Menu program.

Main designer program

  1. Add a way to abort long processes, such as loading a library.
  2. Instead of exiting to BASIC, go back to the Menu program.
  3. For long processes, such as loading a library:
    1. Show a progress indicator to verify it's not frozen.
    2. Add a way to abort.

General

  1. Create a C-128 version!

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Responses

Pinacolada 12/18/2012

Hey, this is good stuff. Remind me again, is the Imagery! disk shared on CommodoreServer somewhere? Love to take it for a test drive. :)

kentsu 12/18/2012

Yes--all of the images are in the Public disk section. And there are direct links within the first two blog posts. Have fun!

Pinacolada 1/4/2013

OK, I found it. Looking for the Imagery! adventure player. And I think a C-128 (80 column) version would be great. I found an 80 column toolkit called "Control-80" on an issue of LoadStar 128 (which I never realized existed til recently). Pretty neat stuff.

kentsu 1/4/2013

I remember Control-80! That was a long time ago...