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Message: 4730
Author: Daniel
Date: 25/03/2005
Subject: Re: Jet Set Willy - The 2005 Megamix
--- In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, andrewbroad
>>It features 156 rooms in total,
...
> - 12 rooms from the Dragon 32 version of Jet Set Willy, converted
of 128 rooms (Variants V and W) or 64 rooms (Variants X, Y, Z and [).
> back to the Spectrum format by John Elliott;
>But these rooms require the JSW64 game-engine, which has a maximum
Sorry I wasn't specific enough. The 12 rooms from the Dragon 32
version are: all of the additional ones minus "Matthew's Next Game" -
which is a practically empty screen anyway - and "At the Top of
the Well" and "Jim's Nasium" - which I didn't like or thought worth
including. As a matter of fact, the rooms in "JSW - The 2005
Megamix" are renderings of the Dragon 32 rooms as seen in John
Elliott's editor. I tried to reproduce them as faithfully as possible
in relation to the original, but of course some things are missing,
due to the restrictions imposed by the 128k engine, such as the
trampoline blocks. The guardians are generally preserved as they are
in the original, but I have changed the colour of most of them. I
have also changed the colour of the earth/water blocks in some rooms,
although not their graphical design. There are also some minor
modifications which I introduced in order to fit the rooms into the
game layout. So, to sum up, I guess a more accurate description would
be: rooms modelled after 12 of the rooms from the Dragon 32 version
of JSW as converted back to the Spectrum format by John, or something
like that.
By the way, do we know who should be credited (personally or
otherwise) for the Dragon 32 version?
> 2 rooms designed by John Elliott;
Which ones?
I have used, with John's kind permission, the two CGA rooms.
> - 2 rooms from JSW Editor MkII by Softricks;
Party Willy has these rooms too ("The Moat", "The Vault" and "April
> - 1 room designed by Dave Nichols;
Showers"), as well as the rooms from Paul Rhodes's JetSet Editor
("The Space Station" and "" - which also appeared, slightly
modified, in Richard Hallas's _Jet-Set Willy in Space_).
That's very nice :-) . I didn't know that, since I haven't
played "Party Willy" yet. I am currently catching up with the history
of JSW and MM development, playing the existing games, but I am doing
it more or less chronologically (with some exceptions) according to
Andrew's list, and so the pleasure of tackling "Party Willy" is still
ahead of me :-) .
And the same question again: do we know the name of the person/people
who should be credited for the Softricks editor?
Daniel
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