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Message: 6449

Author: Daniel

Date: 13/06/2008

Subject: Re: Andrew Broad's website updated (at last!)

 

In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, andrewbroad wrote:

I am delighted to announce that I have just uploaded the latest
versions of some MM/JSW web-pages that I have been working on for
ages. They can be found at
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/willy/

* List of MM/JSW Games: see below for details.

(snip)

Great job, Andrew, it's great to see The List up to date at long
last! :-)

In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, andrewbroad wrote:

I have also updated all the Titbits and Future Games sections, and
added several entries to Other Games of MM/JSW Interest - including
a couple that have not been mentioned on this Group!

Among them is the game "Cheekah's Exploits" (by Julian R.E. Wood,
Your Computer, 1985), which you describe as "a machine-code type-in
game from the January 1986 issue of Your Computer, based heavily on
the code for Manic Miner, and featuring a built-in room-editor".
Since you have included it, I think it will be appropriate to also
add some information about "The Steelyard Blues" (Tynesoft, 1987),
which is apparently a Harry S Price's rip-off of "Cheekah's
Exploits", so it must be equally based on the code for MM. The more
so that you have also included in the same category both "Pyramania"
and its Harry S Price's rip-off, "Odd Job Eddie".

A compilation of Harry S Price's rip-offs can be found on Paul
Equinox Collins's website (http://equ.in/ox/spectrum/hsprice/), which
is where I learned about them.

A question to the technically-knowledgeable among you: can any
portions of the MM code (data?) in "Cheekah's Exploits" and "The
Steelyard Blues" be transferred to the standard MM format easily? I
mean like sprites or rooms to be used in a "real" MM game?

And a final comment: I have noticed, Andrew, that you don't display
the Drunken Master's latest game's name fully, using *** to cover a
part of the second word. I could possibly understand it in the case
of the "f" word, but, surely, "shit" is not really a rude word any
more, in this day and age. Or is it? I'm just curious how all ye
native speakers feel about it :-) .

Daniel

 

 

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