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Message: 6365

Author: andrewbroad

Date: 23/01/2008

Subject: JSW64: Flash Manic Miner

 

Daniel wrote:

>
> It would nice to one day (in a hypothetical future when one is not
> SO busy...) convert, with Matt Gordon's kind permission, the levels
> from Flash Manic Miner "back" to ZX Spectrum.

I've kept this to myself up until now, but I started doing exactly
that in 2006! I have converted Caverns 21 to 25 of Flash Manic Miner
to a JSW64:Z game, by taking a screenshot of each new room as I
reached it, and writing the corresponding JSW64 room using JSWED.

I saw in the year 2007 by writing Cavern 25, and was about to ask
Matthew Gordon for permission to beta-release my work so far, but
with an endless series of tennis- and then work-distractions, I never
got around to it. I even considered including JSW64: Flash MM as a
bonus in JSW64MM: James Bond, but I didn't want to tie its release-
criteria to the Bond-films.

I finally got around to sending that delicate email to Matthew Gordon
this month, and I now have his permission to present JSW64: Flash
Manic Miner (v0.25) to this Group.

> How many new levels are there, does anyone know?

Matthew Gordon told me in an email that there are 20 new levels. They
are based on the original Manic Miner caverns, with extra items,
guardians, and minor changes to the cell-layout.

I have yet to get past Cavern 25 in the online Flash MM
<http://www.darnkitty.com/manic/>, but I have done so in my JSW64
conversion.

> It would have to be done in JSW64, I guess, since there are more
> than 5 items to collect in each room.

Exactly. Also, in Flash MM, you can fall onto a conveyor and walk
against it, which you have to do to pass Cavern 21. In JSW:Flash MM,
I simulate this using an invisible Ramp-cell.

> Or would it be possible to modify the original MM game engine to
> allow more than 5 items per room?

It would certainly be possible, but it wouldn't be easy, because MM
stores its items in each room, with space for five items in Offsets
629 to 653. The solution that springs to mind would be to implement a
separate item-table like JSW has, and reuse John Elliott's patch to
flag all a room's items as uncollected when you lose a life.

> Are there any New Zealanders active in the Group??? :-)

http://www.darnkitty.com/profile.php?lookup=1

He posted here as recently as Message 5199.

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Dr. Andrew Broad
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