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Message: 6704
Author: andrewbroad
Date: 21/10/2010
Subject: Re: Who is the author of MM for the Dragon 32?
jetsetdanny wrote:
>The back cover of Manic Miner for the Dragon 32 (at the first link above), the scrolling message for JSW64:Dragon, and Adrian Robson's book _Miner Willy from rags to riches_ all agree that Roy Coates is the author of Manic Miner for the Dragon 32.
> In his list of MM and JSW Games Andrew Broad lists Ray Coates as
> the author of both Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy for the Dragon32
> (and hence the co-author of John Elliott's "JSW64:Dragon").
>
> However, on this page:
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> http://jswremakes.emuunlim.com/Systems/dragon.htm
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> (to which Andrew actually points in his list of MM and JSW games
> when mentioning Dragon32)
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> it says that Paul Burgin is the author of MM for the Dragon32,
> while Ray Coates is the author of JSW for the Dragon32.
>
> In the Wikipedia article on Manic Miner, in the English version Ray
> Coates is credited for both Dragon32 games
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manic_Miner). However, in the Polish
> version (which seems to be the second most developed one, on this
> subject, among the various existing language versions -
> http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manic_Miner) the credit for MM for the
> Dragon32 goes to Paul Burgin.
>
> Any comments?
Paul Burgin <http://www.burgins.com/> is the author of a Dragon-emulator called T3.
--
Dr. Andrew Broad
http://abroad.sqweebs.org/spectrum/mmjsw/
P.S. It's cool to see that my website hasn't been 'fancrufted' out of the Polish variant of Wikipedia yet!
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