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Message: 4074

Author: soa1000

Date: 15/04/2004

Subject: Re: Updated JSW docs at mdfs.net

 

--- In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, andrewbroad
wrote:

> It's always interesting to compare different people's
> interpretations of the JSW sprites!
>
> > 140 1:100 &AC80 Web
>
> Spiral.

I always thought this was a web, and had an extremely vivid memory of
it appearing as such in JSWIIC64. When I found that it didn't, I had
to design my own for Soul Miner

> > 152 1:112 &AE00 Egg-whisk
>
> I've always thought this was a variant of the creature from "The
> Warehouse" in Manic Miner. I call it the "todhopper".

I used to have a name for this, but damned if I can remember it

> > 156 1:116 &AE80 Robot
>
> Dalek.

If this is the one I think it is, I used to call it the Mutant
Dustbin after the room in JSWIIC64

> > 200 1:160 &B400 Duck LEFT
> > 204 1:164 &B480 Duck RIGHT
>
> Monk. How you can see it as a duck I don't know! Ducks are what you
> get in Manic Miner's "The Menagerie".

Oh I don't know, I used to see it as a duck-man. It's the nose I think

> > 280 1:240 &BE00 Perfume
>
> This is clearly some kind of automaton. I call it the "beacon".

I call it the radar

 

 

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