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Added field 9 author info
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|Map title.  Must include a trailing NUL byte, and must not exceed 64 characters (including the NUL).  Should generally be ASCII, though Tile World appears to interpret this as Latin-1.  <!-- XXX what does MSCC do with a long title or byte over 128? -->
|Map title.  Must include a trailing NUL byte, and must not exceed 64 characters (including the NUL).  Should generally be ASCII, though some programs interpret this as Latin-1 or Windows-1252.  <!-- XXX what does MSCC do with a long title or byte over 128? -->
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|[[Hint]] text.  Must include a trailing NUL byte, and must not exceed 128 characters (including the NUL).  Should generally be ASCII, though Tile World appears to interpret this as Latin-1.  <!-- XXX what does MSCC do with a long title or byte over 128? -->
|[[Hint]] text.  Must include a trailing NUL byte, and must not exceed 128 characters (including the NUL).  Should generally be ASCII, though some programs interpret this as Latin-1 or Windows-1252.  <!-- XXX what does MSCC do with a long title or byte over 128? -->
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Tile World in Lynx mode will ignore this structure and always allow any number of monsters to move as normal.
Tile World in Lynx mode will ignore this structure and always allow any number of monsters to move as normal.
==== 9: Author ====
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
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!Content
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|Author's name.  Must include a trailing NUL byte, and must not exceed 128 characters (including the NUL).  Typically encoded as Windows-1252 or Latin-1.
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This chunk is not present in the original game, and was later created as a community extension to include author info without relying on other files. This chunk is ignored by MSCC and early Tile World versions.


== See also ==
== See also ==
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