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Message: 4853
Author: Daniel
Date: 01/08/2005
Subject: Re: JET SET WILLY IN PARIS RELEASED
Hello Everybody,
First of all, I hope you are having fun on your holiday, Herve :-) .
Also, congratulations to Sendy and DrUnKeN mAsTER on their love life
and their American sweethearts :-) . It is an interesting historical
fact that there seem to be no US input into the Spectrum scene. What
were they doing over there when Europe was in the grip of
Spectrumania? Anyway, Sendy and DrUnKeN mAsTER, as Dasse and SOA1000
have said, spread the word and try to spread the JSW bug on the other
side of the Atlantic. And NEVER EVER leave your JSW files behind -
buy a CF card or a Memory Stick or one of those, copy all the files,
and carry them in your wallet, or with your passport, as your most
treasured possessions! :-)
I hope everybody else is doing well :-) . Are you now fully back into
JSW activities, Andrew? And Igor, how are progressing on "Manic Miner
Retold"? And how is your Lovecraftian game going, Dick Daggers?
Greetings to everyone else, too :-) .
A few days ago I completed "Jet Set Willy in Paris" (playing with the
infinite lives POKE and saving snapshots, as always) and I would like
to heartily congratulate Herve on this outstanding piece of JSW
designing :-) . It is a real gem, at a time of an "output depression"
as Sendy put a few months ago, which proves to me - and to all of us,
I'm sure - that the Jet Set Willy revival is still going very
strongly :-) .
I like the game very much - it fulfils what I have always
particularly liked about JSW, which is creating a new space, an
entire new world as it were, to move around and have fun within. Like
Sendy put it just recently, "to me the joy is just in playing and
wandering around the rooms, and of course making your own JSW
worlds :)". The Paris of Herve's JSW is a great place to wander
around!
I think the expression "atmospheric", used by Phil, is a very good
description of the game. I appreciate the sprites you designed,
Herve, and I will be glad to use some of them in my future projects,
with your permission, of course. Of the rooms, I especially like the
nightlife scenes, the museum rooms with paintings, the bridges and
the UFO theme.
I like the game so much I have decided to offer a small linguistic
contribution to Herve's endeavour of producing a multi-language JSW
game. I am sending Herve a full translation of the game into Polish
(my native language) and an improved (revised and expanded)
translation into Spanish (the language I use at work), with the hope
that he will perceive them as valuable enough to "officially release"
and add to his folder. I only modified things related to the language
(names, messages and fonts), I didn't alter the game in any other way.
Congratulations once again, Herve, and I am confident that "Willy on
a Transatlantic Cruise" will be a great game, too. It will be very
interesting to see how you make use of the possibilities offered by
the JSW64 game engine :-) .
Daniel
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