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Message: 4090

Author: jgh@arcade.demon.co.uk

Date: 17/04/2004

Subject: Updated JSW docs at mdfs.net

 

> Message-ID: <c5josg+jfdd@...>

andrewbroad <no_reply@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

> First of all, a big WOW to J.G. Harston! Your site has a very
> impressive collection of technical information.

Aw shuks! Thanks.

> It's always interesting to compare different people's
> interpretations of the JSW sprites!

I've finally got around to designing a page that shows the actual sprites
along with their addresses and names. I've adjusted some of the names!
Have a look at http://www.mdfs.net/Software/JSW/JGH/Sprites

> > 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 don't know where the name "egg-whisk" came from. It appears in The
Kitchen, and you find egg-whisks in kitchens ;)

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

It looks like the transmitter thingy in Lunar Jetman. For some reason I
thought of that as a robot, so "Robot" stuck. I suppose it should be
"transmitter".

> > 176 1:136 &B100 Top Hat/Periscope base
> > 180 1:140 &B180 Periscope
> Macaroni Ted.

Named before JSW-II ever saw light of day.

> > 188 1:118 &B280 Orange
> Moon-Face.

It appears in The Orangery, therefore, it's an orange...?

> > 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".

I have *NO* idea why we came up with "duck". Maybe, as soa100 said later,
you can maybe see a beak on it. I've renamed it Priest, but now think Monk
is probably better.

> > 228 1:188 &B780 Sponge
> Tambourine/steel trap. The thing in "The Bathroom" might be a sponge.

Sponge as in sponge cake. I've made sponge cakes that look like that.

> > 240 1:200 &B900 Dumbell
> Sponge/bone/a pair of atlases.

I never really liked this one, and it was immediately replaced when Greg
Heslington designed the slinky. See http://www.mdfs.net/Software/JSW/Greg

> > 244 1:204 &B980 UFO
> Shuttle.

Nah, a shuttle's triangular. This is definately some sort of flying saucer
type thing.

> > 248 1:208 &BA00 Medusa
> I've always thought of this as an amoebatron. Some call it a spider.
> It's one of my very favourite sprites.

A spider has eight legs.

> > 132 1: 92 &AB80 Priest
> > 252 1:212 &BA80 Demon
> Surely you must have got these names the wrong way round! ;-)

Yes, I've now relabelled these as Demon, Devil. 1:92 is more of an imp, I
suppose. It looks as though it would be biting your ankles, rather than
prodding bottom.

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

Perfume atomiser. It looks like it's got a glass crystal base.

> > 288 1:248 &BF00 Woodcutter
> I've always associated this sprite with Dr Jones.

I first saw it at the bottom of the Megatree, so woodcutter stuck.

> > 292 1:252 &BF80 Guard
> And bald guard with sunglasses!

And he blinks!

> I was most intrigued to find some old postings of mine in
> http://www.mdfsnet.f9.co.uk/Software/JSW/Docs/faq/ ! I intend to

Yes, "various unsorted almost-faqs" ;) The word "unsorted" seems to
appears with a worryingly high freqency on my site!

> Your copy of my Jet Set Willy Construction Kit at
> http://www.mdfsnet.f9.co.uk/Software/JSW/Editors/JSWCK.zip is an old
> beta-version (JSW CK 0.0). Please could you replace it with the
> latest version, JSW CK 1.0?

Yes, uploaded. I can occasionally forget to update bits of my site when
there's 18,000 files to keep track of! A lot of it's automated, but human
intervention is essential.

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