Unusual Pokes (Spectrum Version)

[IRF]

POKE #8E7C, #01 has some odd effects on Willy's falling mechanism.

[IRF]

POKE #96BD, #1B (POKE 38589, 27) swaps a RL E command for a RR E, which changes the routine that plays the Title Screen tune so that the modulation goes 'upwards' by an octave for each note, rather than 'downwards' by an octave.

[Spider]

Only applies to the 'Softricks' edited games to effect the life-loss routine a little bit:

 

POKE 35846 , 0 / #8C06 , #00
POKE 35847 , 0 / #8C07 , #00
POKE 35848 , 0 / #8C08 , #00

 

This keeps the border and sound effect which is actually the built in one used on the title scrolly, but removes the call to display the title screen. Another small advantage of this is there's no ink corruption (yellow ink mainly) on the lower status area afterwards.

 

Optional: To adjust the effect length a little bit, the default here is 50 / #32 :

 

POKE 35855 , X / #8C0F , #X

 

Sensible range (higher values = longer effect length) for 'X' is 30 / #1E to 70 / #46

[IRF]

POKE #8FBB, #00 (POKE 36795, 0 in decimal) - Willy can jump a bit further horizontally off the end of a rope.

[Spider]

POKE 35339 , 058
POKE 35340 , 222
POKE 35341 , 128
POKE 35342 , 024
POKE 35343 , 010

Pick up the border colour for the room then set the ink to be that colour

[Spider]

Small collection of manual tweaks:

 

Show the Swimming Pool object (as its normally collected automatically)

POKE 57248 , 068

This sets the rope colour to be bright green, acting as a sort of 'vine' from Orangery. Because its no longer white ink on black paper, the code will not try to 'automagically' collect the item for Willy.

 

Prevent (easy/accidental) 'Top Exit' from Dr Jones

POKE 59420 , 172

Add a fire cell to the top right-hand area just above the water cells.

 

Prevent top exit escape from Watch Tower

POKE 62166 , 000
POKE 62167 , 171
POKE 62169 , 010
POKE 62173 , 004

Change the conveyor from right to left (not essential) move it down one column and extend its length a little bit so it does not look out of place and finally shorten the ramp length to 'fit' the newly placed conveyor

 

Prevent top exit escape (cheat?) from Rescue Esmerelda

POKE 52971 , 047
POKE 61321 , 032
POKE 61344 , 008
POKE 61406 , 000
POKE 61420 , 014

This makes use of the otherwise (in the original game) room 47 aka " [ ". Start by changing the up exit from Esmerelda to be room 47, alter its name by removing the single character then change the air colour to be blue paper representing sky and change the border colour and finally set the down exit from 47 to be Esmerelda