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I ended up with an older Toshiba slate-format tablet pc from work. My company will give away or sell for a nominal fee older hardware that we've replaced. I just started using it for art work and I am amazed at how much easier it is to draw on it vs a digitizing tablet. Anyone else used one of these bad-boys in the past?

So, I received a Christmas present early from a guy at work. I think it's rather nifty at that. It does the same thing my hacked up wireless router does, but much much simpler.

Here's a link to it.

[url]http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/11/fuzebox_an_open_source_8b.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890/url]


I've already loaded an old old game of mine from circa 1994 on it.

I was trying to think of a way to vary the attacks in a pseudo-random fashion. The method I use now is to have a counter linked to the frame-rate and using it to give me a more or less random number. This seems to be sorta clunky though. I could add a module that uses the seed random function in C# I suppose. Does anyone have a better idea for this? I think a random number generator may be worth doing in its own right.

Let see... this should give a random number...
Random randNum = new Random();
randNum.Next(1, 10); // No larger than 10, no smaller than 1



and this would use the seed from the frame-rate linked counter
get
      {
         return counter.m_nValue;
      }
      setRandom randNum = new Random(counter.m_nValue);
randNum.Next();


Additionally I was wondering how to play a brief opening video and have it play once and then go to the menu map. At present I have it open in the menu map and it plays the video once based and increments an on/off counter in order to avoid the opening clip every time the game drops back to the menu level (i.e when esc is pressed or a game is saved)
The trouble with this is, there is a brief lag playing the clip when the game opens and the the menu screen is shown for a moment before the clip plays. Ideally, the clip would be in its own map and would play all the way through, then dump the user to the menu screen.

I added the general sprite control script to source-forge recently. You should receive an email I think.

 I have tried to use a series of special functions that were on the same tile, and it seems that the only function that works is the last one I specify. Once I actually use the map via a shortcut it becomes corrupted and is unusable/recoverable after this point. The function is not designated 'remove upon use' so it should still be in place.

As this method is apparently unworkable I was going to try a different way. I was planning on reducing the layers tileset to 16 by 16 and leave the sprite tileset at 64 by 64. This will give me 4 special functions to use without any of them overlapping or taking the same tile. My question is, will this work?

I tried the DarkElf game and I really liked the load screen. I think the same thing could be done without scripting and using an inert sprite. One function to teleport down, one for up and one to select that option. This would require three functions per tile it seems. Or, perhaps the method described above would work.  Any thoughts?

I plan on trying it regardless, but input would be appreciated.