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Message: 7231
Author: jetsetdanny
Date: 28/05/2019
Subject: JSW Central update
I am pleased to announce that I have just launched a significant update of JSW Central. The highlights:
- The panel on the left side has been modified. It now provides direct access to the various game categories.
- A new category of "Mini Games" has been added to the main list. It currently has four entries: Andrew Broad's Jet Set Willy - Super Pre-School Edition (moved from the "Versions of the original JSW" section), John Elliott's Jet Set Willy 2: Super Pre-School Edition (new entry), the DrUnKeN mAsTeR's Jet Set Bulimic (new entry) and Ian Rushforth's Jet Set Willy Heaven and Hell (new entry). Although I do have some qualms - ironically, a game classified as a version of the original JSW (i.e. not a new game) can easily have more new rooms than a mini game (i.e. a new game) - adding the mini games section has solved my problem of where to list the three entries which were not part of any list on the site previously.
- Individual Manic Miner game pages have been modified. They now feature download links presented in the same way as on the other pages, short text introductions to most games and embedded YouTube videos. The way they are now is more or less what I would ultimately want each individual game page on JSW Central to look like.
- Individual pages of "Versions of the original MM" and "Versions of the original JSW" have been modified as well, mainly in the download links sections.
- Currently all individual game pages feature links to those games' pages on World of Spectrum and/or Spectrum Computing, as well as maps on Speccy Screenshot Maps, RZX walkthroughs on RZX Archive and YouTube videos (and links to their homepages if pertinent). The videos will continue to be embedded as work on the site progresses.
- Download links have been rearranged. There are now download folders for games in each category. Each of them has a subfolder called "dgd" (Direct Game Download). Most of them also have subfolders called "oth" (Other Downloads) and some have subfolders called "cen" (which stands for JSW Central Downloads).
In the Direct Game Download folders there are game files only (no text files, maps, etc.). Ideally, I would like to have a TAP and a TZX file for each pertinent version of each game. In rare cases where providing the files in such format was impossible, they are in another format (usually SNA or Z80). In any case, every game listed on the site can be downloaded from those folders in one format or another.
In the Other Downloads folders there are typically original ZIP files in the actual shape their authors released them in (most of them with the Readmes and many with other additions). In some cases original individual release files have been packed into one ZIP file (where the author did not release a ZIP, but some individual files only). This section will still be developed, because I can provide more of the original ZIPs, but I have to look for them among my files or on the internet.
In the JSW Central Downloads folders there are files which reflect my creative input of some kind, if I may say so, such as bug-fixed or finished versions of games I have prepared for JSW Central, or RZX walkthroughs showing superior performances to their equivalents hosted on RZX Archive (i.e. the best publically available solutions to some games).
There are links to those files on the individual game pages. Furthermore, these folders are not protected in any way, so anyone can browse the Download folder and grab anything they need / want. So, as Gawp (Gary Pearce) once said on his website (on the Games Archive page, which doesn't always open from the direct link), "Download Willy games like there's no tomorrow!" 
- Some individual games' pages have been modified. After further scrutiny, Jet Set Willy 25-100 has been promoted to the "Advanced modifications of the original JSW" category. Furthermore, the sole entry in the Jet Set Willy II category has been split into two entries: Jet Set Willy II [by Derrick P. Rowson, Software Projects, 1985] and Jet Set Willy II+ [Derrick P. Rowson, 2016] (Version +e.22, 2017). I believe this reflects the reality better than just one entry for these two vastly different versions of the game.
- Chronology has been updated up to the present moment and some earlier entries (related to the creation of versions of the original MM and JSW) have been added.
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