Resource centre for ZX Spectrum games
using Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy game engines
I. Manic Miner (MM)
Games using Matthew Smith's original Manic Miner game engine for the 48K Spectrum
8. Manic Miner 7
Author: Craig Rothwell
Year: 1998
Language: English
Manic Miner 7 is a MM remake by Craig Rothwell. Only the first five caverns are edited; the remaining ones are the original MM rooms. Craig Rothwell apparently gave up the development of the Spectrum version of Manic Miner 7 in order to work on his JetSet Miner Willy (which he also called JSW Emulator), a game that features the original MM and JSW and several early JSW remakes for the ZX Spectrum made to run under DOS. Manic Miner 7 is one of the games the player can choose to play there from a Mario-style map. According to the author's words in the Readme, it should not be looked upon "as being a normal MM game", because "as you play through its many caverns, you will find that it soon becomes very different, with secret caves, many extra lives up for grabs, freaky one off rooms (such as the nightmare of 'Friday the 13th') 2 screen rooms, moving platforms and more..."
The unfinished Spectrum version of Manic Miner 7 does not have any such attractions, unfortunately, but it does feature some technical curiosities in the edited rooms, such as guardians walking through cells (because they do not touch any pixels) or nine different colour attributes in one room (in the MM game engine attributes in the screen layout which do not map to any cell graphic are interpreted as undefined blobs on the screen).
It may be controversial whether Manic Miner 7 should be classified among new games, unfinished project as it is. It is included in the list of new games mainly for historical reasons: it has been traditionally considered a new game by members of the MM/JSW community.
Number of rooms: 20, including 5 newly-edited rooms and 15 rooms from the original MM.
Highest documented score:
- upon reaching the swordfish sign: 36,760 points;
- upon first re-entry into the first cavern: 38,036 points.
Download links
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Game file in TAP and TZX formats |
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Tape version of the game in TAP and TZX formats, with a Readme, and the original Z80 file with the original Readme |
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The game's page on WoS |
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The game's page on Spectrum Computing |
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The game's map on Speccy Screenshot Maps |
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RZX walkthrough of the game showing the highest documented score |
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RZX walkthrough of the game on the RZX Archive (showing a completion of the game which is inferior to the best publicly available recording) |
Video
A walkthrough of the game on the JSW Central YouTube channel
Screenshot gallery |
The remaining rooms in the game are unedited rooms from the original Manic Miner.
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