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Message: 5375

Author: john_elliott_uk

Date: 31/12/2005

Subject: Re: List of MM/JSW Games updated / Authorship of Dragon32 MM

 

--- In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, andrewbroad
wrote:

> Wasn't it Paul Burgin who wrote the Dragon 32 conversion of Manic
> Miner, rather than Roy Coates as it says in the scrolly for JSW64:
> Dragon 32 Manic Miner?
>
> Evidence for Paul Burgin:
> 1. http://jswremakes.emuunlim.com/Systems/dragon.htm
> 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manic_Miner
> 3. http://jswremakes.emuunlim.com/Systems/dragon/mmdragon.zip
> > mminer.zip > Manic_Miner.cas
> According to my Java BinText utility
> <http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/cs/java/text.html>, this file
> includes the substring "CASbyPDB". Perhaps he merely converted it to
> Dragon-emulator format?

The scrolly message comes from the Dragon game itself; I didn't
write it. Your utility won't find it because it isn't in ASCII :-)

 

 

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