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Load command in AMOS. This option allows you to select which way the files will be saved and loaded.

Save Niceness Settings: Once you are happy with your re-designed editor you can save the settings to disk. These will then be loaded automatically when you restart TOME.

Reset to Defaults: Just in case you aren't very good at ergonomics, or you want to have a laugh at what it looked like before you customised it, this will restore all the settings to their default.

Option 2 : Grid Options
Sometimes you might need to see the boundaries between the tiles, either on the map area itself or on the tile selector screens. The following options allow you to put overlaying grids on the map display and the selector screens, and even to put the tile numbers on the tile selector screen.

Map Overlay Grid: This switches the overlay grid on for the map display area, so that you can see exactly where you are placing tiles.

Tile Screen Overlay Grid: This activates a similar grid for the selector screen and tile selector to the left of the map. This is so that you can see which tile you are picking up.

Tile Numbers: This displays the numbers of the tiles when you use the tile selector screen.

Flip Screen Grid: If you are doing a flip screen game rather than a scrolling one, then you might want to save all your screens as a large map, and simply jump around the map to each screen. By activating the Flip Screen grid, you can mark out your map into areas the size of your screen (The co-ordinates for width and height are in tiles).

Option 3 : Map Size
Put very simply, this option allows you to change the size of the map in tiles. You have a choice of initialising the map to the current tile/fill pattern. If you leave this initialise option off then the current map will be resized.

Option 4 : Credits
Probably the most important bit of the program this ! The programming was by Aaron Fothergill (myself), the graphics were all done by Adam Fothergill, and it was tested by amongst others, (deep breath) Len Tucker, Dicon Peeke, Peter Hickman and Sandra Sharkey. Thanks also to Norm Allen in Australia and Dave Lazerek in America.