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Message: 5175
Author: andrewbroad
Date: 27/11/2005
Subject: Re: Flash Manic Miner / Andrew's site updated
Matt wrote:
>This is really cool to see. I especially like the high-score table,
> Hi everyone,
>
> Im not sure if its been done before or not, but I just recently
> posted Manic Miner written in Flash on my website.
>
> http://www.darnkitty.com/manic/
>
> Its the first of two or three games from the 80s and 90s that im
> re-writing in flash. I was hoping you guys might have a go or two
> and give me your opinion, tell me if Im missing anything or if it
> runs too slow. Theres no sound... but im working on it :)
>
> Theres a high score feature as well. Its just got the standard
> levels at the moment but im developing a level editor, and Im sure
> you guys already have heaps of custom levels out there :) It
> doesnt run as fast as I would like it to on some older computers
> though :(
>
> Can someone here tell me, who wrote the Javascript version of
> Manic Miner that I have seen on the web? I know its moved from
> site to site over the last year or so, and I would like to give
> the person who wrote it credit on my website because I used one or
> two algorithms from it.
even though I have so far failed to reach #1 or get past "The
Warehouse"! :-o It's faster than the Spectrum version, with coarser
collision-detection for guardians.
Carl Woffenden wrote the JavaScript version of Manic Miner. The
feedback I gave him - much of which applies to Flash MM - can be
found at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/manicminerandjetsetwilly/message/3735
(2003 version)
and:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/manicminerandjetsetwilly/message/2890
(2002 version)
In 2004, Carl rewrote the game-mechanics to be more faithful to the
original MM (based on a disassembly of Spectrum MM):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/manicminerandjetsetwilly/message/3982
Unfortunately the /faithful/ version is no longer online AFAIK.
--
Dr. Andrew Broad
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/willy/
P.S. I have updated my website, including my List of MM/JSW Games.
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