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Message: 6096
Author: andrewbroad
Date: 27/03/2007
Subject: Re: Wonga (JSW II) / Tennis-distractions / kitchenknives33
1. Re: Jet Set Willy II - interesting background information
Daniel wrote:
>comments.html
> I have just come across some very interesting background information
> concerning JSW II. It is on Julian Wiseman's website, it comes from
> the programmer Steve Wetherill and it is relatively recent (added
> February 2006), so some of you may not have seen it yet.
> Highly recommendable!
>
> See http://www.jdawiseman.com/papers/games/jsw2/jsw2-programmer-
I am fascinated to learn that Wonga was a budgerigar! I always
thought it was a misspelling of "Wonka" (as in Willy Wonka in Roald
Dahl's _Charlie and the Chocolate Factory_), and that the stuff
represented by the Water- and Ramp-cells in "Wonga'S Spillage Tray"
was chocolate! ;-)
2. Tennis-distractions
This month's tennis-distractions have been greater than I
anticipated. I'm working hard to clear my backlog of unread emails -
so that I can update my MM/JSW pages - and am currently just under
800 unread emails, and up to Message 6030 of this Group.
I anticipate being down to 0 unread emails in about four weeks /if/
there are no more distractions than I have planned for. I don't hold
high hopes for getting any serious MM/JSW done before the French Open
(starts 27th May) - my first priority is to clear my various backlogs
before then, and get my website up to date.
3. Re: kitchenknives33
Daniel wrote:
>For me, it's the room "Playing With Knives" in Philip Bee's _JSW Ivy_.
> P.S. When I see your nickname, I can't help thinking of the
> room "Knives" (042) from Herve's second game "Willy on a
> Transatlantic Cruise" :-)
--
Dr. Andrew Broad
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/willy/
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