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Message: 6175

Author: andrewbroad

Date: 21/06/2007

Subject: Undeleting items from the original Manic Miner

 

andrewbroad wrote:

>
> From my Manic Miner Room-Format:
> >>>
> An item should not have a colour-attribute of 0 or 255. Setting an
> item's colour-attribute to 0 removes that item, and setting it to
> 255 terminates the sequence, removing that item and any others
> after it. The original Manic Miner has items which are 'removed' in
> this way:
> Room 14 ("The Bank") has a colour-attribute of 255 for the fourth
> item (which causes the fifth item to be removed also), and Room 15
> has a colour-attribute of 255 for the fifth item. The other four
> bytes of these three items suggest that they are genuine items
> which were deleted (intentionally or unintentionally) by Matthew
> Smith.
> <<<
> <http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/willy/mm_format.html>

So wouldn't it be fun to play Manic Miner with these three
items 'undeleted'?

#E9BE: 01 (Water 2 -> Crumbly at (13,30) in "The Bank")
#EA84: 06 (undelete 4th & 5th items in "The Bank")

#EE89: 03 (undelete 5th item in "The Sixteenth Cavern")

Why was I thinking about the number of items in each MM cavern? I was
contemplating where best to sacrifice lives in order to achieve the
highest score for Game Over in any given cavern. Clearly, if that
cavern happens to have fewer than 5 items, it would be better to
sacrifice all lives but the last in a previous room that has 5 items.

--
Dr. Andrew Broad
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/willy/

> P.S. There's a small chance I might update my website again before
> Wimbledon (25th June to 9th July), but the greater probability is
> that it will have to wait until after Wimbledon.

The former probability is now extremely tiny. Possible good news for
Willy is that showers are forecast for Wimbledon next week, and the
roof won't be ready until 2009.

 

 

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