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Message: 3682

Author: du_ca_si

Date: 02/08/2003

Subject: Re: Miner on the Moon

 

> I've heard of that! My source says it's by "Duncan McDonald and
> brother", but you call yourself "Duncan Sinclair" - presumably the
> former is wrong?

Yep - I don't know who "Philip Bee" is, but he's not entirely correct. (You'll see my
name in the Spectrum FAQ, if you look hard enough.)

To clarify, it was written by me and a friend, with my brother helping out on the
graphics and level design.

It is a re-written Manic Miner game engine, slightly faster and with a more compact
level format. It was incomplete and lacks things like the "solar power" feature, but
they shouldn't be too difficult for somebody to add, I guess.

It's not the only thing I'd like to rescue from these microdrives carts. Does anyone
know how likely it is to get stuff off one of these things after at least 15 years of non-
use?

Any tips? (Of course, first I need to find a Spectrum and Microdrive. I wonder if a QL
could read them...)

Cheers,


Duncan.

 

 

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