
                        LDK: Level Development Kit
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This version of the LDK supports sets of levels, rather than individual
ones.

To build level sets, do the following :-

1)      Create or Edit the Level files (e.g. LEVEL1.DAT). This showss the
        layout of each level of the game. Each possible tile is described
        using a character. There must be only 1 Magic Cloud, only 1 start
        point, and at most 16 enemies.

                M       Metal Block
                C       Magic Cloud                 Exit Point
                X       Brick
                -       Pipe
                0       Coin
                E       Enemy
                H       Ladder
                *       Start Point
                ?       Fake Brick                  Looks like a brick but isnt
                L       Hidden Ladder               Key opens doors
                K       Key
                =       Platform
                >       Right Moving Platform
                <       Left Moving Platform
                D       Door
                W       Warp Tile [fall into only]

2)      Edit the file LEVLIST.DAT. This contains a list of all the levels
        in the set you wish to put together. In the enclosed example there
        are 40 levels. The order of the levels in the file shows the order
        they will be in in the final game. NOTE the maximum number of levels
        has been increased to 63.

3)      Run the MAKE batch file. This puts all the files together, compressing
        them, attaches the code for the game to the file and saves it
        as two files, CODE.BIN for KEM, and LODE.83P for the calculator.
                
4)      You can test it one of two ways :-

4.1)    Load it into a TI83 under ION 1.4 or better and run it.

4.2)    Run the "KEM" program. This is my basic development tool for
        TI83 programming. It is basically an emulator like VTI but it
        is designed for debugging and development, not to pretend to
        be the calculator.

        To start it, press ESC, to exit, press ESC again. Keys are
        A,S,D and the arrow keys. (== 2nd Mode Del on TI83)

        Because it is a little hard, to help with level checking it is
        possible to set a flag in the level data which means you can't
        die when testing it (except by being buried). To set this flag
        run CANTKILL.EXE. It is, of course, cleared by CONV.EXE
        (part of MAKE.BAT)

