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Message: 6729
Author: Ian Gledhill
Date: 16/03/2011
Subject: Re: JSW (Software Projects version)... with Speedlock!?
On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 21:46:32 -0000, andrewbroad <no_reply@yahoogroups.com>
wrote:
> That sounds like the variant of Jet Set Willy that was released on theThat sounds about right.
> They Sold a Million compilation, which has a SpeedLock loader, the four
> official Software Projects POKEs applied, and the in-game music from
> Manic Miner (i.e. "In the Hall of the Mountain King" rather than "If I
> Were a Rich Man").
>
> Matthew Smith said that the copyright-owners of "If I Were a Rich Man"
> demanded payment for the use of their tune, so he replaced it with "In
> the Hall of the Mountain King", the copyright of which has expired.
I put photos on my very-very-work-in-progress MM/JSW website:
http://www.retroreview.com/iang/ManicMiner/ - it's under Manic
Miner/Sinclair Spectrum (obviously!).
I'm wondering if given the lower quality of the printing it's part of the
very end of the production run when Software Projects were in trouble and
were cutting costs. The cassette doesn't have any of the watermarking SP
tapes normally have, and it's black. I don't _think_ it's a pirate copy
but you can never be quite sure!
I'd be interested to hear of any other fixed copies which look like this!
--
Ian Gledhill
ian.gledhill@... ian@...
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