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Message: 3704

Author: Carl Woffenden

Date: 14/08/2003

Subject: Re: [Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy] Re: Where is Matthew Smith?

 

> do you see the full screen on the other fones or a section at a time
> ala the 3510?

None of the phones we targeted have large enough screens for this so
they all scroll (the Series 40 phones scroll the most due to the
graphics being double size - long, long story!). The P800 or the 9210
wouldn't need to scroll but were not considered commercially viable
(but a PersonalJava dev version does exist that runs on them, though).
The very first version (written 16 months ago) scaled everything down
to fit a Nokia 3410 screen (4x4 for the blocks, etc.) but Miner Willy
looked more like Elvis.

Some useless trivia: the game ranges in size from 39k (Nokia 3410) to
120k (Nokia Series 60). The B/W phones have their graphics taken from
the Speccy and the colour phones from the GBA.

> Ps think I could have shaved a couple of seconds off the uranium
> workings by collecting the 1st item on the 3rd jump instead of jumping
> left (kidding again)

Probably...!

Carl.

 

 

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