With the new consoles (PS2) quickly taking priorty over the PSX/PS1 Game Console it is get-
ting harder and harder to find information on games made for it. Websites are disappearing
fast. So before some go the way of the DoDo Bird, I collected some info from them to save 
for historical purposes and for the PS1 users that have held on to their PS1 Game Console. 
So I hope those that haven't updated their site for many years and those that are planning 
on dropping the PSX/PS1  from their site don't mind me storing and sharing their work with 
others.I have 6 gigabytes of data, I'm only using very little of it here.( MDB@psxa2z.com ) 
My thanks go out all PSX users and webpage makers for the past 7 years! Thank you. 

From http://www.cco.net/~arne/carnage/ -- Last Update: March 9, 1997
Date lifted from site: 3:29 AM 12/16/2002 Thanks again!

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This is my makeshift style guide for submitting Carnage Heart programs
through text files.  Note that this file is a ".TXT" file, so your browser
ought to display it with a fixed pitch font.  This is necessary for the
blocks to line up correctly.  You must view this with a fixed pitch font
to see it right!

If you don't know what it is:

| | These bars should line up | |
| |                           | |
| |    in fixed pitch type.   | |

If they don't, then try saving it and using edit.com or notepad to view it.


Here's my little plan for a standardized set of text program blocks:


First off, describe the mech that it is built for.  For a specific format
use this:

Name       :
Body       :
Engine     :
Main weapon:    (and ammo)
Sub weapon :    (and ammo)
CPU        :
Fuel tank  :
Armor      :
Option     :

You could include a paint color too if you want.  Here's a sample:

Name       :JujuBee
Body       :Jujuman02
Engine     :Gargill Z3
Main weapon:Shotgun   (100 HD)
Sub weapon :12 Rocket (Panther MK2)
CPU        :Tri-H3
Fuel tank  :40 liter
Armor      :35mm
Option     :Omni P1 ID

Umm, thats off the top of my head, so the names might not be right, but
you get the idea.  If you want to submit a program that can be used for
a wide variety of designs, just list the items that are necessary for your
program to work, such as:

Any two or multi-legged OKE
Shotgun
Short range rockets
Missile interferance device

Now for the hard part, making text blocks to show your program.  Perhaps
in the future I (or someone else with spare time) could make a program to
generate text files for these.  The general format for these is thus:

+------+
|Scan E
| 200 y>
|0   90
+--\/--+

This is "Scan for Enemy at 0 degrees, 90 degree width".  The down arrow is
green and the right arrow is red.

+  /\  +                   +--/\--+
                           |      |
<      >  Green arrows     <      >  Red arrows
             <--           |      |    <--
+  \/  +                   +--\/--+

I made the red arrows have a line through them, since the red arrows are
always the divergance, and the green normally connect like one long line.

The "Scan" is obvious, and "E" for "enemy", then range, and the other two
are the normal numbers.  This way, all 3 numbers appear in the order they
do on the screen when you edit the tile.

This is the command list:

movement:          misc:
Move               Duck
Jump               Jam (missile)
Ascend             STOP
Desc (descend)     Wait
Turn               Self (destruct)
                   Random
Shooting:          Time
Fire               Allys
Grapp (Grapple)    Send
                   Rec (receive)
Status Check       Count
Fuel               Count?
Damage             Scan
Temp               --
Ammo  


Here's a more detailed rundown for each one:

Command| Parameters
-------+------------------------------------
Move   : Ahead, Back, Left, or Right
Jump   : Ahead, Back, Left, Right, or Up
Ascend : none
Desc   : none
Turn   : Left or Right
Fire   : Main or Sub, (number if sub), width
Grappl : none
Fuel   : < or > or =, number
Damage : < or > or =, number
Temp   : < or > or =, number
Ammo   : < or > or =, number
Duck   : none
Jam    : Missile
STOP   : none
Wait   : none
Self   : Destruct
Random : number / number
Time   : < or > or =, number
Allys  : < or > or =, number
Send   : Channel number, color
Rec    : Channel number, color
Count  : Letter (A thru E), (+ - / * or <-), number
Count? : Letter (A thru E), < or > or =, number
Scan   : (E,F,P,M,O, or N), range, direction, width
--     : none

The scan abbreviations are:
E enemy
F ally
P projectile
M missile
O obstacle
N mine


Once you get these all together, they should look a lot like what you see
on the screen:

+  \/  +------+------+
|Scan E| Fire  Scan E 
| 200  > Sub  > 150  >
|0   90| 1 90  0   90 
+  \/  +------+--\/--+
|Scan E| Turn |      |
| 200  > Right| Wait |
|90  90|      |      |
+  \/  +  \/  +  \/  +
| Turn   Move | Fire  
| Left > Ahead| Main >
|             |  90   
+------+  \/  +------+
                                
It may look jumbled, but it is the best I can do until I get a set of icons
made for graphic program pictures.  And it is compact enough to make an 11x11
program and still fit within 79 columns.  12x12's will just have to be wider
than 80 columns for now.