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Imperica Horizons - The whole weekend :-)So now it's all over, I'll do a quick writeup... It all started for me at 5.20 am. Getting to London from Devil's Island isn't so easy now that Aer …
... bit intense.
But after a coffee at Victoria Station ... /> I also got my very first "clapper board", I was interviewed ... Raspberry Pi for the first time (and play Manic Miner on it, thanks ... to look at the very first Your Sinclair - I remember trying ... -
Brief report on Retroma?Well, that's the last retro event of 2012 for me at least - five days of Retroma??a have just come to a close. This event is held as part of the Wee…
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Junior Manic Miners trying to get through Central Cavern ... Spectrum games. The winner: A Manic Miner type game for a PC ... for each round was a best of 3, with a time ... -
Voted Top 100 ... true list?Yesterday I look on our Top 100 ... top-ten is so-so, but rest... many 'wrong' titles present, Elite, Laser Sq., Lords O.M. too low (positioned)... w…
... Ski-Jumps, get rid of best and worst marks :)
... 01 for any 10 votes after 100th vote, e.g. ... to avoid 10% worst and best votes. This is "Haters ... 29 lowest marks and 29 best, so in calculating average ... 8.66 => 9.359 Manic Miner (02.)
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Matthew Smith making a new game![url]http://retroasylum.com/manic-miner-creator-matthew-smith-set-for-return-on-ios-and-android/[/url] [I]"The Retro Asylum team have heard a whispe…
[url]http://retroasylum.com/manic-miner-creator-matthew-smith-set-for- ... whisper that almost 30 years after Manic Miner first hit the Spectrum, creator Matthew ... -
First polyphonic beeper tuneWhat was the first game on the 48k Speccy to have a polyphonic tune? By this I mean a proper 2 (or more) channel tune, not the "lots of really fast …
What was the first game on the 48k Speccy ... /> I'm guessing Manic Miner was one of the first but there doesn ... years or was MM the first and only one for a ... -
Are these files of any use to anyone? (MANIC MINER MUCH FASTER AND SMALLER CODE)I've not touched any of this for 3 years, I thought I lost it when I had to reformat my C: drive. EDIT: These links might work Z80 source [url]http:…
... rewrite and it was my first serious attempt at any assembly ... code from the JSW disassembly after I spent about a day ... -
New IF2 Cartridge: Manic MinerI want to release some IF2 cartridges for ZX-Uno. This is the first one. [url]http://zonadepruebas.com/download/file.php?id=2668[/url] I am not gra…
... ZX-Uno. This is the first one.
[url]http ... [URL="http://fineartamerica.com/featured/miner-portrait-front-aloysius-patrimonio.html ... -
Longest Game Completion TimesMetro article [url=http://metro.co.uk/2014/05/26/weekend-hot-topic-part-3-longest-video-game-completion-times-4738636/]here[/url]. Nice to see the S…
... the Spectrum mentioned in the first account, R-Type by a ... me around 20 years from first playing it to actually completing ... clock something like Manic Miner, which I'm useless at after about the ... -
New Spectrum User - Inveterate UpgraderI've been asking a few questions about my Speccy, which is the first I've owned despite my advancingh years. I was a C64 kid, but please don't hold …
... my Speccy, which is the first I've owned despite my ... be made good, but even after a few sessions, it was ... was an issue 4B, and after some advice on another forum ... especially looking forward to playing Manic Miner as it was originally intended ... -
Inlay Mash-Up QuizIdentify the 42 titles whose partial inlays are in the mash-up below: [IMG]http://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af288/Thirdharmoniser/InlayMashUpQuiz…
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B1 Kayleth
C1 Cavern Fighter
D1 ?
E1 ...
A2 Cavelon
B2 Manic Miner
C2 Abu Simbel Profanation ...
E3 1985: The Day After
F3 ?
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Video Games Collecting Project at the Museum of LondonThe Museum of London is currently engaged in a new, experimental collecting project which encompasses all digital media including film/video, sound, …
... of video games and develop best practices for the digital preservation ... Spectrum community.
In this first phase we are looking into ... ZX Spectrum games:
- Manic Miner/ Matthew Smith
- Eureka!/Ian ...25 Years Later......that was [u]ALL[/u] that it took. So today, I am messing with my Spectrum that I have created using a Raspberry PI. It's housed in a Microdriv…
... dominate playground rants.
- First Manic Miner - excatly the same but no ... better sound effects.
After 25 years, I learnt that ... anything on the C64 from first glances.
Perhaps it ...NEW RELEASE: "Willy's New Mansion" Special EditionOn the twelfth anniversary of the [url="https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/manicminerandjetsetwilly/conversations/messages/4593"]release[/url] of my…
... "]release[/url] of my first Jet Set Willy (JSW) ... four time challenge levels after the game has loaded ... teleportation;
- special effects after Willy has collected the last ... uk/"]JetSet Willy & Manic Miner Community[/url] fame for ..."Henry's Hoard" - completable at last![[i]Please scroll down if you just want the links where the bug-fixed files can be grabbed![/i]] "Henry's Hoard" is a game released by Martyn Brow…
... 's Hoard" which, to the best of my knowledge, have not ... victory code is buggy. Its first byte is overwritten by a ... -bugfixed-versions/"]JetSet Willy & Manic Miner Community[/url]. The ZIP includes ... s Hoard", 26 new rooms, Miner Willy as protagonist and some ...MARBLE MADNESS (MD - WEST 'EA' vs JAP 'TENGEN') - WHICH IS BEST?Hi everyone and welcome to the May 2017 of Which Is Best? (All previous episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwNreNhW7CgheHTRuhjGLO…
... May 2017 of Which Is Best?
(All previous episodes ... ZX Spectrum,...Chuckie Egg vs Manic Miner which no doubt challenged your ... were heavily in favour of Manic Miner although they all loved ... was those votes that pushed Manic Miner to the winning line ...High score table routineI wrote this general purpose high score table routine. It stores 5 scores and displays them alongside the player names, which are 8 characters long. …
... HL,(SCORE)
LD (FIRST),HL ; set SCORE as new first score
BEST ; print the "TODAY'S BEST" table ... 255
BEST:
DEFB ... BEST "
DEFB 255
; Default player names and score ...Ghosts 'n Goblins vs Ghouls 'n Ghosts - Which Is Best?Hi everyone and welcome to the January 2018 edition of the "Which Is Best?" and the first of the 3rd series (started back in Dec' 2015). Last month …
... of the "Which Is Best?" and the first of the 3rd series ... game Gauntlet type game and after counting all the votes I ...Amiga chit chat (sorry but it never really was a commode designed machine)I wish there was a forum like this for the Amiga, perhaps there is but I tried a few and they mostly seem pretty moribund and lots of the links at Am…
... ended up trying out Manic Miner for the first time ever using Fuse ... hard to get past that first screen.
Never was ... that attracted me in the first place. However I had tons ... with DPaint 3 - still the best art program ever IMHO - mainly ...Blocked by spam? (and other issues)So I was thinking about games mods, and I started to check Manic Miner / Jet Set Willy derivatives. At first, I tried to check it on my tablet (Andro…
... started to check Manic Miner / Jet Set Willy derivatives. At first, I tried ... + NoScript). After looking a couple of titles, I looked for Manic Miner titles ... a given game (i.e.: Manic Miner) has links that show any ...Best achievement in a Speccy gameI'm rubbish at most games. I can complete Atic Atac, Manic Miner, Highway Encounter, Skool Daze and er, Bruce Lee. That's about it. However on pla…
... . I can complete Atic Atac, Manic Miner, Highway Encounter, Skool Daze and ... />
What's been your best achievement on a Spectrum game?JSW Central YouTube channelI am pleased to announce the launch of a new YouTube channel which will complement the information presented on [url="https://jswcentral.org/"]JSW Ce…
... showcase videos of walkthroughs of Manic Miner (MM) and Jet Set ... the best completion time (in JSW games) or the highest score (in ... future. I will do my best to update the channel periodically ... games from the official Miner Willy canon ([i]Manic Miner[/i], [i] ...Completed gamesMy housemate and I are currently working our way through Deus Ex at the moment and the thought struck us that today it is actually possible to comple…
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3) Manic Miner - Completed the game on an emu after saving repeatedly ... with Montezuma, after traversing half the screen. After this the ... proggy loops back to the first level, ... so I assume this is the ending after ...Looking for two games (forgot names?)....1. A game where you bounce around as a little ball. It was like a 2d platform game. You have to collect fruit or something. Later on the platforms di…
... I gave up.
The first half or so of the ... is great, but I thought after that the level design went ... irritable - I come away from Manic Miner feeling relaxed and cheerful, even ...what made u buy a spectrum?Yo spec-chums what really made you buy a spectrum?. Here is my story i was about 9 and had a oric1, poor me eh?, yes it had 48k but it was just about…
... games; 3D Ant Attack,
Manic Miner and Jetpac are the three ... remember, but there were more. After
seeing it I had ...
a Spectrum 48K. The first game I bought was Jetpac ...what are people's favourite........hi there, what are people's favourite games and why? [img]/__forums/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img] octave
... right up there with the best of them.
Target ... /> A little easy to complete after all these years, but a ... . Love that egg...
Manic Miner
Need I really elaborate ...Whats it like to be a young speccy gamer now?From some topics on here it seems that alot of us(me included) have left behind our younger years in age along long time ago,so when we play speccy g…
... showed them how to play Manic Miner and JetPac.
The ... he can now storm the first seven levels with max points ... , I'm hopeless at it after level 4!!ULTIMATE SUCK!!I wonder what reaction there will be to this? I just wonder if there are any other ppl out there who agree with me. I never got as much enjoyment ou…
... is one of Ultimate's best, when you get into it ... remember Knight Lore when it first came out and it just ... on it's release was Manic Miner.
And, as good ...Whos Your Favourite Game Programmer ? Mine's Keith Burkhill, Mike Lamb. Its the people behind Commando, Arkanoid. There are others cant remember their names, I'll continue later [img]/_…
... /> 5. Matthew Smith
> Manic Miner
6. Roy Carter ... ; Marsport * Lightforce (one of the first speccy shoot em-ups featuring ... it is one of the best arcade conversion on the speccy ... Speccy?If so, wots the best game?)
37. Philip ...are games?................are games made today just as playable as they were in the 80's?
... were about getting a high score and not to reach the ... ps2 is one of the best games i have played.
manic miner for 4 hours solid but ...Best Speccy ProgrammersRe-post from the thread "Who is your fav speccy programmer". It was getting rather unwieldy so I thought I'll post a new topic on this. So, after mu…
Updated list:
Best Programmers (in no particular order) < ... /> 5. Matthew Smith
> Manic Miner
6. Roy Carter ... ; Marsport * Lightforce (one of the first speccy shoot em-ups featuring ...
