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Message: 5878

Author: Daniel

Date: 23/07/2006

Subject: RZX Walkthrough of "Manic Scribbler" / Current matters

 

1.

In message # 5348 Jet Visy wrote:

> Manic Scribbler is quite a piece, is the completeable?

Now everyone interested can see for themselves.
Download "ManicScribbler.rzx" from the general area of the Files
section and open it in an RZX-compatible emulator.

In message # 5351 Darth Melkor wrote:

> I completed each room after I wrote it, so I can only assume that
> the game is completable. But it's very difficult!

Indeed it is! I had to devote many, many hours first to complete the
game earlier this year (see my reviews in messages # 5385 and # 5602
if you're interested), and now to record it. But it's been very
gratifying, too! It's a delightful challenge :-) .


2.

Thanks to Hervé, Andrew and Edward for their nice comments
about "Willy's Hoard". I hope you will maintain them after you've had
the time to see (and play) the whole game :-) .


3.

Edward Martland (soa1000) wrote:

> There's a brief mention of "Willy's New Hat" in the text that made
> me think someone really ought to do a redux version of that game -
> put some guardians in (though I admit the creepy sense of absence*
> feels like a core part of the game now) and maybe give it a more
> adventurous map.

Andrew Broad wrote:

> I'm planning to do a revamp of Willy's New Hat myself, possibly as
> early as 2007 although I have not firmly committed to the project.

(snip)

> Jet Set Willy: Willy's New Hat (Broadsoft Revamp)

It's good to know that you are going to do a new version of "Willy's
New Hat", Andrew :-) . I look forward to it!

Some time ago I had an idea of creating a JSW128 game called "Jet Set
Willy: The Early Years", combining the rooms from "Willy's New Hat",
Mark Jeffries' remake (which has come to be known as "JSW: Spectrum
Computing") and R. D. Foord's "Dr. Jet Set Willy", adding guardians
in the rooms from "Willy's New Hat" and maybe some of the rooms from
the other two games. I thought of using sprites from R. D.
Foord's "JSW Sprite Library" so that they come from the same period.
However, afterwards I decided to devote my time and energy to other
JSW projects, and so "The Early Years" has only existed in my head,
up till now :-) .

Incidentally, does anyone know how to transfer the sprites from R. D.
Foord's "JSW Sprite Library" to a JSW game file, so that one could
use them (and transfer them to other games) in JSWED? If somebody
knows how to do it easily, why don't you do so and upload the file to
the Files section, please?


Daniel

P.S. I have deleted my technical files related to the Rope-Teleport
Phenomenon (RT.zip) from my folder in the Files section, in order to
free up some space. Should anyone be interested and doesn't have the
files, let me know and I'll send them to you immediately.

 

 

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