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Message: 3431

Author: andrewbroad

Date: 09/03/2003

Subject: Re: Maria vs. Some Bastards / where's woody / MM

 

Philip Bee wrote:

minertech,

It's a very good game indeed;

I've had a fairly brief play with MvSB on MacSpectacle, and my jaw
dropped at the technical innovations! I haven't looked at the code
yet, but presumably the room-format must have been extended beyond
the usual 256 bytes/room, as there seem to be more than four
elementary block-types a room!

I was particularly impressed with the crumbling floors, the multi-
coloured guardians, and the special effects - patch-vectors à la
Geoff Mode? Visually it's as impressive as Manic Miner Mythologies:
Eugene - Lord of the Bathroom.

It was quite a culture-shock to play, as it is so much out of the
ordinary for JSW. I have a trained eye for all the loopholes in
MM/JSW, but this one has so many special effects that I often felt
puzzled - most notably in a room called "Bub n Bob" IIRR. It's going
to take a lot of working out once I get it typed into my real
Spectrum! :-)

MvSB is the most technically groundbreaking JSW-rewrite I have ever
seen, and I am in awe of Vidar's incredible talent.

it's as good as the bonus is bad! ;-)

Although the bonus game is billed as "crap", it could still give a
lot of 48K JSW games a run for their money! Visually and technically
it's very impressive - although much of this is residue from MvSB and
MMM:E-LOTB. I don't think I've yet seen all it has to offer, however -
and this is certainly true of MvSB too, of course.

i_eat_teh_babiez wrote:

I find it ironic that sendy's woody sprite was ripped off by two
releases in as many days (Ma jolie Room 9 on Wednesday, and MvSB
on Thursday).

i found that quite amusing as well... and also, you both ripped the
non-official sprite. as far as i remember, the final version of
where's woody featured a slightly revised hairstyle (2 pixels were
changed) :)

Really? AFAIK, the version of where's woody I typed into my real
Spectrum is identical to the one downloadable at:
http://jswremakes.emuunlim.com/Games/jsw-woody.zip
Is this the final version?

btw, what's the cheat code for MM?

6031769 (Bug-Byte edition) or TYPEWRITER (Software Projects edition).

soa1000 wrote:

btw, what happened to club messages 3412-3415?

I received multiple email-copies of the message currently known as
3416. I assume gawp2000 deleted the duplicates.

--
Andrew Broad
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~broada/
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~broada/spectrum/
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~broada/spectrum/willy/

 

 

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