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Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 15:32:00 -0700
From: Jason Dagit <thedagit AT mail DOT coos DOT or DOT us>
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Subject: Re: Tile based games engine
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Richard Cobbett wrote:
> 
> Yes, I know it's a FAQ by now, but I haven't seen the answer, so please
> bear with me.  I need a tile based games engine similar to Zelda and
> other similar role playing games, preferably using Allegro.  I have seen
> the Manic Mazes engine, and I think it would be a good starting point,
> however I need to be able to create levels.  Is there any sort of editor
> available for it, or if not how would I do this.  I realise that the
> format must be quite simple as the maps are created in just a few lines,
> and would think that you could pipe level data in via an Allegro .DAT
> file.  Is this possible, and if so, how?  Please help, otherwise I'll
> have to ditch DJGPP for this project and use the awful Boreland C++.
> 
> P.S. Shawn, for Allegro you can never be thanked enough.  Without it, I'd
> still be plugging away at the Boreland Graphics Library (Shudders)

I don't know if it is exactly what you want but I found a game for DJPGG
that has a tile editor.  The game comes with the source so you would be
able to look at it and learn.  I don't know where I got it but I think
it was from
ftp://x2ftp.oulu.fi/
it is called boboli.  The file you want to down load is called
boboli.zip  Sorry that I can't help more than that.  Well, I could if
you want me to email it to you.  I still have the zip file.
Jason