Hi again,
I put loads of rivers in my board, but there wern't lots when I played it. Why is this?

Elliott, the best Audio Gamer.

Hmm guys, did you read the manual?

All right, before you all read this post, i have to warn you that it will be extremely long, because of a section of a manual of the horse racing game.
I'm copying it to here, because it may help others to make boards easier.
For all of you, whom that is easy, please excuse me, and skyp that post.
For the others, please continue, and you may can get how the creator works (however, i think that section is clear in the manual).

+13. making your own tracks

From version 1.5, you are able to make your own tracks.
To make your task a bit easier, we include a board creator program, which you can run from start menu/programs/lighttech interactive/the horse racing game/board creator, by default.

@@ creating a track

After the program started, you will be presented with a menu. The menu contains four options:
create a new, empty board: makes a new, empty board, and loads it to the editor, so you can set different obstacles.
Create a computer generated board: Makes a new board, and fills up with randomly generated obstacles. After it, the program will load it to the editor, so you can set/modify the different obstacles.
Edit the current board: Loads the currently used board into the editor, so you can create/modify the different obstacles.
Exit the board creator: Closes down the board creator program.

@@ The editor

By choosing the first three items from the menu, the editor will open up, and you can edit the board.
The board contains 100 squares, where the starting point is the first, and the end line is the last one. You can't modify this two squares.
You can use the up and down arrow keys to move between the squares, and the left and right arrow keys to modify the square's obstacle.
The obstacle can be blank (if the horse will step on the square, nothing will happen), river, cactus plant, cliff drop and metal barrier.
After you modified the squares, you can press the enter key to save the board, and to return to the main menu of the program.
You also can press the escape key to exit from the editor without saving the changes, and to return to the main menu.

@@ Keyboard commands for the board creator

In the menus:
Up arrow: move up
Down arrow: move down
Enter key/Space bar: activates the selected menu option.
Home/end keys: moves to the first/last item in the menu
Escape key: exits from the board creator

In the editor:

Up arrow: Moves one square up on the board.
Down arrow: Moves one square down on the board.
Left arrow: Moves left in the obstacle list, making the current obstacle as the obstacle of the square
Right arrow key: Moves right in the obstacles list, making the current obstacle as the obstacle of the square
Page up key: Moves ten squares up on the board
Page down key: Moves ten squares down on the board
Home key: Moves to the starting point of the board
End key: Moves to the end line of the board
Enter key: save changes, and return to the main menu.
Escape key: exits from the editor, without saving changes

It's quite simple, as soon as you press enter in the editer to save a board, that is the board you will play on, the next time you select the "Play the horse racing game" option.

If you want a new randomly generated board, just go into the editer, find the option to create a computer generated board, press enter, then press enter again without modifying the board, and there you have it!

I'm afraid I don't really see why people are making such heavy weather of this, I found the editer perfectly fine to use (I don't even believe I read the manual before trying it out, or even if there was a section about it in the manual in the version of Thrg I first used it in).

hello jade

why should the manual state something so obvious, what did you expect to happen after you saved a new board?

as I've said, I personally had no trouble at all iether with the manual or the editer, and it might possibly be more productive for Robjoy, Yaka and co to spend their time working on the developement of Light saber attack etc than re-writing what is in my view quite reasonable documentation.

cool! and there was me thinking you'd finished with version updates of THrg. I'll go and have a look.

lol, i can't track them down, and i don't think so any of us can.
However, we hope that vresion will be bugfree, and hopefully that'll be the last version. (we had to release it, because that was a really serious bug.)

Oh, i forgot about the cheats and stuff...
If you complete the board, at least once, and get the cheats, then no matter what will you do, how you will edit the board, you will able to get them, if you win a board, created by you.

1.61 and 1.6.1 is the same.
And, there was an 1.0.22 i think, as well.