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Message: 6825
Author: jetsetdanny
Date: 07/04/2015
Subject: Re: JSWED crashes on my Windows 7 computer - Bugs in Down and Out Tr
Hello, DrUnKeN mAsTeR!!!, it's good to hear from you!
I hope you will get your JSWED up and running soon and that you will grace us with new games with your old sense of humour!
Did you know that your games on WoS - all of them, I believe - are listed as "adult" entries or something like this? - which means that unless you have the adult setting on, you will not see them on WoS.
I found this out when trying to look up Miles Mad Mission. I couldn't find it in Sinclair Infoseek.
Bizarre, I thought to myself.
Then I tried to look up your other games and could not find any of them. They didn't appear on the MOD list of JSW games, either.
Holy Shit!!!, I thought to myself.
And then somehow I figured out that I had to switch the adult setting on, and then they all re-appeared. A Fucked Internet Resurrection it was, indeed :-) .
[In the Configuration of Sinclair Infoseek there is an option "Allow adult search results (opt-in)". It may be off by default. In such case people won't see your games].
On an unrelated note, I have recently played Still Stealin' to near completion. It is a beautiful journey, perhaps not "epic", taking into account the character of the game :-), but certainly a lot of fun. I really enjoyed it!
Regretfully, I found out that while the game is item-completable (you can pilfer all 116 items), it is not Maria-completable, for the following reason:
In the room "Oh! got the brickies in again?" (101), after you have explored and cleared of items all of the rooms to the right and left of it, you cannot get back to "A chance to put things right!" because of the uppermost Fire cell, which does not allow you to cross the passage from right to left. Eliminating the uppermost Water cell in the adjacent column (or the Fire cell itself) would solve the problem.
It was a big disappointment, I must say, being so close to the ending and with all of the items collected. It was also ironic since the room above, "A chance to put things right!", has two teleporters which allow you to go back to the earlier parts of the game... but you cannot reach it!
Taking this into account, as well as the fact that the other two games of the Down and Out Trilogy apparently aren't completable either (see details in Andrew's message 5764, with your replies in 5765), would you consider (preferably as the first task after re-starting JSWED :-) ) releasing their bug-free versions?
It would probably be enough to correct the bugs in Skint Willy and Willy the Rogue which Andrew described in message 5764 plus the one in Still Stealin' which I have described above. Once you get your JSWED up and running, it's probably a question of half an hour, I should think.
I would be happy to playtest the corrected files to make sure there are no more problems.
And the world would gain (at long last!) bug-free editions of the Down and Out Trilogy, and nice RZX recordings could be made of them. This would be really good, since at this point the three parts of the Trilogy constitute HALF (3 out of 6) of the JSW games which are NOT on RZX Archive yet...
Daniel
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