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Message: 4744

Author: Alexandra

Date: 28/03/2005

Subject: Re: Anyone seen this R.D. Foord Software stuff?

 

> Hell of an update at the TZX Vault today. They seem to have tracked
> down the entire output of R.D. Foord Software - mostly game-editing
> programs, including progs for Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy. These
> include a demo version of JSW with three rooms edited, PLUS there is

a

> full JSW edit called Dr. Jet Set Willy, and a Manic Miner hack simply
> named Manic Miner #2. The graphics are in the main drawn from other
> JSW knockoffs including Odd Job Eddie and Technician Ted, but it's
> still interesting to see games unearthed from back int' day
>
> http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekpub.cgi?regexp=^R%2eD%

2e+Foord+Software$

That's one hell of a find, I really thought we'd seen all there was to
see in terms of editors from that period... Really amazing... The JSW
game is certainly good quality, too.

Some things:

a) His JSW doesn't load into JSWED (JSWED thinks it's JSW128 and you
can't see the rooms!)... Could it be a new format?

b) I can't get the editors to load, the screen goes yellow. And I
don't know how to insert side 2 of the tape in zx32 (been a long time)

c) The link to the new MM game seems dead to me.

Really exciting discovery, thanks for posting it!

Sendy

 

 

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