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Framerate of Spectrum gamesI was reading a bit about framerates in modern games and it got me wondering about the Speccy. First off I'd hoped to find what framerate my old gam…
... , TMTH and so on. Manic Miner runs on 12.5 too ... month to cross the CRT screen. You could run images ... right edge of the screen and once at the ... of games.
Manic Miner can look smooth with an ... slow movement across the screen can make the game ... -
UK magazine-alert - Retro Gamer - Manic Miner: The Lost LevelsThere is a four-page article by Stuart Campbell in Issue 63 of [i]Retro Gamer[/i] magazine about a compilation of 20 caverns called [i]Manic Miner: T…
... the first level in regular Manic Miner. Very enjoyable. Second level has ... first screen and it seems weird that the enemy and Miner Willy ... -
top 10 spectrum gamesI know its been done to death on here but give me your top 10 games here is mine. 1. Midnight Resistance 2. Space Crusade 3. Way Of The Exploding Fi…
... the Speccy is the intro screen to Manic Miner.
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forget top 10 and top 100 .... what IS legendary status ?games that go beyond the top 100.. much like say armalyte+wizzball on c64 and rescue on fractulus on atari 8 bit... games that were good BUT basic…
... on any format.
Manic Miner/Jet Set Willy is Legendary ... , and having AMAZING packaging/load screen
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Putting stuff back in MM/JSW.I got a wonderful email from the MM/JSW Yahoo! Group organized by Our Very Own Dr. Andrew Broad. Though Dr. Broad's post is short, he mentions the p…
... 'reverse' Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy games. Obviously the screen is just ... -
What are the keys for Penetrator?Q - Up, A- Down, O-Left P- Right Space - Bomb. So what's fire? When I press the P button, it fires bullets, but that's the 'right' key. Surely they…
... my speccy (the other being Manic Miner) so I persevered with it ... the left side of the screen gives you opitions for shooting ... -
ZX81 more powerful than the Speccy?I have been reading ?The ZX Spectrum Book 1982 - 199x? by Andrew Rollings (thanks again, Andrew - it?s a great read!). There are some comments in the…
... considering that the ZX81's screen memory takes up 768 bytes ... and the occasional rare demo (manic miner, Rus Marks' hires tetris, etc ... -
Games that could've been goodI've just been playing [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0009311]Blade Warrior[/url] (it's been deniencededed since I got hold of…
... This is another flick screen game that has a ... know where to leave the screen above.
... game should have been flick screen instead of scrolling (very ... was a rip-off of Manic Miner for the Commode, so ... this sequel play flick screen like JSW? I imagine ... -
Matthew Smith's Delta Tau OneGoing through some old boxes I've managed to dig up some stuff on Matthew Smith's first commercially released game [B]Delta Tau One[/B]. I don't know…
Before Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy there ... at the top of the screen; that is to say, when ... taking a photograph of the screen.
[CENTER][IMG]http ... photographing the usually over-bright screen display.[/I] -
Wanted: Monty Mole - Stuck, please help!Hi, I used to have this game in the early 80's and always got stuck in the same place. I have since re-discovered it via the emulator. I'm stuck in t…
... , and his dad was a miner. It was written during the ... indeed Mr. Skargill in the loading screen.
The cans in ... -
Are Pokes or snapshots 'cheating'?I've seen a few threads about easy/difficult games, but I've been wanting to ask this for a while now and haven't seen anything specific yet. Most m…
... the room again.
Manic Miner is also a good game ... still have to complete the screen in one life eventually but ... games where the screen does not reset after losing ... poke which adds 15 new screen platform configurations turning it into ... -
iXpectrum, new Iphone ZX Spectrum Emulator.Hi, I have been working in a iPhone port from the gp2xpectrum in which i were working time ago with Metalbrain. I decided to port gp2xpectrum becau…
... the toggles in the Options screen -- Smoothed Screen or Keep Aspect Ratio ... fact that I can play Manic Miner on the iPod, but not ... -
Games in the Top 20 you hardly playLooking at the top games listing theres a few games which I just hardly play, sometimes just put off on my first go or just dont like the look of the…
... minutes, find it irritating.
Manic Miner - It's ok, never finished ... with save states on each screen until the point where the ... .
Jet Set Willy - See Manic Miner
Way of the Exploding ... -
SkoolKit 1.0A new release of the Skool Disassemblies is available. This time, besides the traditional [url="http://pyskool.ca/disassemblies/"]online version[/ur…
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The control ... just after it's finished loading.
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The Making Of Manic Miner"Matthew Smith talks us through every level of his classic platformer Sat at the very desk where it was written, Matthew Smith watches Miner Willy l…
... work in progress for my Manic Miner remake
[url] ... 5) "D" skips to next screen
Any feedback welcome ... Final Barrier and (unused) title screen
F408: End ... death, game over
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Win_TZX2TAPI just wrote a small&simple TZX to TAP Converter for conversion of standard blocks. It is dedicated to all DivIDE users who want to do a quick batch …
... use an audio source for loading games, a fast load snapshot ... you can see people loading games like Manic Miner in 20 seconds or ... -
Win_TZX2TAPI just wrote a small&simple TZX to TAP Converter for conversion of standard blocks. It is dedicated to all DivIDE users who want to do a quick batch …
... use an audio source for loading games, a fast load snapshot ... you can see people loading games like Manic Miner in 20 seconds or ... -
Corrections1.[url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0007023]Spell Of Christmas Ice[/url]. -Year of the release should be 1984, not 1989. -Not s…
... .worldofspectrum.org/showscreen.cgi?screen=screens/load/g/gif/ ... .worldofspectrum.org/showscreen.cgi?screen=screens/load/k/gif/ ... .worldofspectrum.org/showscreen.cgi?screen=screens/load/c/gif ... infoseekid.cgi?id=0003012]Manic Miner[/url]?
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Why do you love Willy? Can you help?Hi all, I'm currently finishing the first year of my Foundation Degree in Computer Enterprise (MMU) and for one of my last assignments, I'll be usin…
... the machine.
While Manic Miner is probably regarded as a ... The Off Licence? Each new screen was filled with wacky colourful ... successfully would be another new screen at the end, and ... designs, particularly the ones in Manic Miner, are some of the ... -
Your views on...Chuckie eggHere we go then, this should clear up all the kerfuffle brought on by this thread... [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=2959…
... of the corner on one screen (can't remember which, if ... ]I'd think that, after Manic Miner, it's the best platformer ... -
Manic Miner or Chuckie Egg?right let's settle this once and for all!
Chuckie Egg is my fave. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy Manic Miner, but I found it far too hard back in the day. I was lucky if I made it to the third screen back then. I can get further now, but still nowhere near the end of it. -
Manic Miner or Chuckie Egg?right let's settle this once and for all!
Chuckie Egg for me....again due to finding it too hard to get past the third or fourth screen in Manic Miner..... -
PLEASE HELP ME: favorite zx 48k games onto game boy advance with FooN injectorDear World of Spectrum forum users, as first a very [B]big thanks[/B] for your great database and the effort to bring up [I]the world largest zx spe…
... select the keys and screen settings before you compile ... also change the keys, screen settings and type on ... />
The GBA screen is smaller than the Spectrum ... whether you want the screen squashed in the X ... screen and expands the top 2/3 for playing Manic Miner, ... -
Remember Chuckie Egg?If you remember Chuckie Egg, Manic Miner and Atic Atac you might enjoy this tribute to the Spectrum! Starts at 59 seconds. [url]http://www.youtube.…
... orchestral demonstration of the tape loading sound. I also liked the ... Chuckie Egg. Atic Atac yes, Manic Miner, yes, but never Chuckie Egg ... -
Games from before your timeI really enjoyed reading NickH's piece. I found it interested that all of his games were from 87-88 - by which time I had stopped buying games (havi…
... stuff in it, classics like manic miner, jet pac, knightlore, etc, and ... to get off the title screen cos you had to "hit ... -
Most enojable rzx's to watch?i've just finished to watch the simpsons game rzx, and it was better than most - especially the fourth level, which contains lots of colours and diff…
... 's crazily hard, bug-exploiting Manic Miner / Jet Set Willy games. There ... 't get past the first screen, and you're guaranteed to ... -
Hi Res Print Routine neededHas anyone seen code for a print routine with pixel accuracy? That is print(y,x,CHAR) that allows 0 < y < 192 and 0 < x < 255 - that takes a charact…
... game to look like. Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy use ... different data block - to build screen backgrounds. As an example < ... br /> look at this screen from [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum ... .org/showscreen.cgi?screen=screens/in-game/e/ ... -
Brand new Horace GameWe could think on how should the next Horace Game be, taking in account that the past three are mixtures of old, well established classic arcade game…
... get further than the first screen! ;)[/QUOTE]
:) The first ... screen is a bit a of bugger, Manic Miner style. It ... -
Retro Machines and Clive on the beebI saw click on the beeb this morning - had a bit about the vintage computer festival and Clive was on too. [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programme…
... don't remember "that" screen of manic miner. check the room name..hehe ... -
Games that were supposed to be easy......But that you thought were impossibly difficult...? (Had a quick look but couldn't find a thread) [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid…
... ;457529]I've never completed Manic Miner either.[/QUOTE]
I have ... never get off the first screen :( , always fell of the beanstalk ... got killed on the next screen.
