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Message: 6597
Author: jetsetdanny
Date: 01/12/2009
Subject: Re: Sendy here
--- In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, darth_melkor
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Answering for Sendy: I think she did some more editing after posting those beta versions. If this is the case, I am not surprised she would want to preserve all of the work she has done, i.e. start "the final effort" using the latest existing versions. Personally, I would hate losing some of my work by having to use older versions.
> --- In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, "Sendy"
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> > Greetings Willy-watchers. Just wanted to drop a note to those that may be wondering about my MM/JSW projects. Sadly they have been put on indefinite hold by the computer they were being created on, which has been refusing to boot for several months now. I feel the files themselves are most likely safe, as they're on a non-Windows partition, but I'm going to need some help getting them off. It also seems that the actual hard disk isn't damaged, it's just a Windows error which makes the computer reset as soon as the Desktop appears.
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> Sorry if I'm pointing out the obvious here, but aren't there beta versions of Role Reversal and Manic Person in the Files section ("Arcane design" folder) that are, like, 99% complete?
Still, if the other files were beyond recovery, I would imagine that the beta versions you have mentioned would be good enough starting points for preparing the gamma release of both games.
And, while we are at it, if they really are 99% complete - that's where the pain I mentioned before comes from: thinking that it's only 1% which is missing to make them officially released...
And also while we're on the subject of the latest versions available -I hope that Dan Richardson can use the snapshots I mentioned yesterday. He mentioned not being able to find the TAP files, which might suggest that he did some further editing on the snaphots in later years and saved them as TAPs. In fact, I think he mentioned the possibility of working on JSW games one time around Christmas, a couple of years ago. Anyhow, I hope he either finds the TAP files or decides to use the snapshots to complete and gamma-release his first ZX Spectrum JSW game.
Daniel
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