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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:

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-

comments.html

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:

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" :-)

For me, it's the room "Playing With Knives" in Philip Bee's _JSW Ivy_.

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Dr. Andrew Broad
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