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Message: 6383

Author: andrewbroad

Date: 04/03/2008

Subject: Re: JSW64: Flash Manic Miner / Andrew's Backlog

 

Daniel wrote:

A note to Andrew: after you have "processed" the newly-edited
caverns of the second set (which means caverns up to 31, plus
possibly the item-enhanced Cavern 34), the only other novelty left
in Flash MM will be "Killer Birds" (Cavern 43, 63 and so on). So,
taking into account the problem of Flash MM having more than 256
items (and also having no visible ending...), perhaps in the
Spectrum conversion you might consider including "Killer Birds"
somewhere (it's an interesting and difficult cavern - a must to
include), but without including the whole third set of caverns,
which - with the exception of "KB" and the room-names of caverns 41
and 42 - is the same as the second set.

What I plan to do is implement Caverns 21-43 in my JSW64 conversion,
and set the Cavern 43 [Room 22 of the JSW64 game] portal-destination
to Cavern 24 [Room 3] so that Caverns 24-43 repeat in a loop. That
will be faithful, won't it, as long as no room-numbers are displayed?

On another subject, I'm painfully aware of how long it has been since
I last updated my List of MM/JSW Games. After James Bond abducted all
of my MM/JSW time and a good deal of my tennis-time up to the end of
2007, I started 2008 with my backlog worse than ever.

The tennis-distractions of 2008 so far have been considerably greater
than I expected, and in the last two weeks, I've also been up to my
eyeballs in the process of converting the placement I was doing since
April 2007 to a permanent job as a C# programmer.

The good news (though not from the perspective of my hobbies) is that
I have succeeded in this, and hopefully things will now settle down
into a routine that will eventually clear the backlog and allow my
MM/JSW plans to progress. Updating my List of MM/JSW Games will be
one of my highest priorities for March.

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

 

 

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