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  1.    jetsetdanny reacted to a post in a topic: MM MSX / Tatung Einstein version
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    Hi guys! I just did not even know this Tatung Einstein version existed. I have written a brief article on Einstein Manic Miner: https://kolttonen.fi/computers_and_logic/retrocomputing/manic_miner_on_tatung_einstein/manic_miner_on_tatung_einstein.html Feel free to copy anything you wish to this site. I am not sure if it is interesting, but I would recommend getting the ZIP that contains 20 different disk images. Like I say in the article, I could not find a ML Monitor feature in MAME, so I wrote two simple C programs to create separate disk images for each room. This means that you can now start the Tatung Einstein Manic Miner in any room you wish! It is a bit clumsy to have to load a different image, but it works. I actually tried The Final Barrier and to my surprise this version has a proper ending! Miner Willy ascends up to the ground and the game ends!
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    C16 Version

    krazyminer replied to Spider's topic in MM

    Hi again! If you want copy any Manic Miner information from my page, and republish it here, you are free and very welcome to do so!!! :thumbsup:
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    C16 Version

    krazyminer replied to Spider's topic in MM

    Hi Spider! I did not notice this thread earlier. I have completed C16 Manic Miner in the spring of 2010, I think I did it six times in a row, one single game, no cheats, no emulation, it was on a real C16 hardware. I wrote a small article documenting some of the differences between C16 and C64 versions in 2010: https://kolttonen.fi/computers_and_logic/retrocomputing/manic_miner/manic_miner_c16_and_c64.html You can find one C16 cheat there, it enables free transport to any room. If you have a different, perhaps trained or cracked C16 release, then my hack might not work. In that case, you can leech the C16 from that same page, I think it should work. I practiced beforehand using that version on a VICE emulator! :D
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  12. krazyminer
    oric_manic_miner_videos.zip View File Here are video captures of ORIC Manic Miner rooms 17-32. The AVI files were created using Oricutron emulator on Fedora Linux 27. Submitter krazyminer Submitted 04/22/2018 Category Other resources  
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    Oric Version

    krazyminer replied to Spider's topic in MM

    Spider, many thanks for the tip! Using ZIP made a huge difference. The AVI files compressed something like 93%, going from 163MB to only 9MB. I uploaded the videos in one ZIP file here, they are in the "Other resources" section. If the YouTube videos look awful and blurred, you can download the ZIP file, uncompress it and try to see the AVI files using a video player. On Fedora Linux 27, mplayer worked fine, but I am pretty sure others will too!
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    Here are video captures of ORIC Manic Miner rooms 17-32. The AVI files were created using Oricutron emulator on Fedora Linux 27.
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    Oric Version

    krazyminer replied to Spider's topic in MM

    Hi guys! I am happy to say I have completed all 32 ORIC Manic Miner rooms now. But not in a row, of course. Just practicing each room individually with infinite lives enabled. The first 16 rooms I did not document with video captures, the second half containing the last 16 screens on the other hand IS documented. I wrote a small article about this mission: http://kolttonen.fi/computers_and_logic/retrocomputing/oric_manic_miner_videos/oric_manic_miner_videos.html For reasons unknown to me, with some web browsers the YouTube videos are clear, with others they are ugly and blurred. I have the original Oricutron emulator's AVI video capture files and I can share them if there is a place to upload them. My kolttonen.fi site has limited storage space, so I cannot host the AVI files there. They are 163MB in total. EDIT: If you guys want to embed those YouTube videos directly to this fantastic site, just go ahead! The link above points to a simple HTML page, the code can be copied from there.
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    Oric Version

    krazyminer replied to Spider's topic in MM

    I will publish all videos on YouTube soon. I intend to complete the last four rooms if I can, then gonna make the videos public. Regarding Oricutron, it works fine on Linux. I have packaged it for Fedora Linux for easy installation. Regarding House of Usher, yes, it is a crazy platformer for C64, Amstrad, Atari. The relevance is that it too contains INVISIBLE platforms, making the game near impossible to play. Manic Miner is hard, sure, but House of Usher is so hard it is... well, unplayable for most people, including me.
  19. krazyminer

    Oric Version

    krazyminer replied to Spider's topic in MM

    I kept on pushing, rooms 27 and 28 now completed too! Only four more rooms to go. But I am now too exhausted to continue. The ORIC specific rooms are now done and I got video captures of all of them!!!
  20. krazyminer

    Oric Version

    krazyminer replied to Spider's topic in MM

    Okay, I drank a can of energy drink and started practicing. After twenty attempts or so, I finally completed room 26, In A Deep Dark Hole. I actually completed it TWICE. Before the first successful attempt, I forgot to press F10 in Oricutron, so there was no video capture. If I can complete the rest of the ORIC specific rooms, I will publish the videos as examples of how you could complete this game. Channel Tunnel is the next room, it looks horrifying to be sure.
  21. krazyminer

    Oric Version

    krazyminer replied to Spider's topic in MM

    I don
  22. krazyminer

    Oric Version

    krazyminer replied to Spider's topic in MM

    I completed rooms 23, 24 and 25 today. But room 26 is like a nightmare! It contains INVISIBLE platforms so it is pure guesswork trying to make progress! I think this room is pretty lame, as it depends on your luck rather than skill!
  23. krazyminer

    Oric Version

    krazyminer replied to Spider's topic in MM

    There is a patterm, I believe, but I am too stupid to spot it. So I learned one way to complete the level and always did the same moves until I made it. But I am unable to
  24. krazyminer

    Oric Version

    krazyminer replied to Spider's topic in MM

    I found the ORIC Manic Miner original tape, complete with the colour code chart! And using Oricutron, I have completed the first 22 rooms, but not in a row. I practiced each room many times. The most horrible room, in my opinion, is the Skylab Landing Bay. It is completely insane because you do not know where the landing enemies will come from! Room 22, The End Of The World was difficult too. It took me 35 attempts to succeed.
  25. krazyminer

    Oric Version

    krazyminer replied to Spider's topic in MM

    Yes, I tried room number 17, Home At Last, using the uncracked, presumably original files (MANIC0.TAP loaded first, it will load MANIC1.TAP). There was no corruption. I also tried one or two other rooms that were previously corrupted. They were okay now. So I suppose the tape files are good. I would suggest removing the ORIC MM that is downloadable here. It would be pretty horrible if someone played through the first sixteen rooms only to find out that Home At Last cannot be completed.
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