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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:
>I've had a fairly brief play with MvSB on MacSpectacle, and my jaw
> minertech,
>
> It's a very good game indeed;
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:
>Really? AFAIK, the version of where's woody I typed into my real
> > 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) :)
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:
>I received multiple email-copies of the message currently known as
> btw, what happened to club messages 3412-3415?
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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