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Message: 3996

Author: jgh@arcade.demon.co.uk

Date: 15/03/2004

Subject: Re: [shift] and [space] keys

 

> Message-ID: <c2sh1r+hpfs@...>

andrewbroad <no_reply@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> carlwoffenden wrote:
> > I dunno if anyone else knows this: holding the [shift] and [space]
> > keys in either MM or JSW restart the game. A little discovery I
> > made whilst poking around the disassembly.

I thought everybody knew that! Can't solve this screen, entered wrong
way, press Break, start again.

And with the GameExit patch you can return to BASIC leaving the game
intact by pressing Symbol-Space at the startup screen. See
http://www.mdfs.net/Software/JSW/JGH/Docs/GameExit

> A little discovery I made the first day I played Manic Miner, when I
> was nine years old! ;-)

Ooo, all these youngsters around.

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