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Found on Itch.io https://lvideo4867.itch.io/manic-miner Appears to be made in GameMaker. Only had a little play so far but mostly feels authentic, jump feels a little off maybe.

I hope that, too. I am sure it´s easy when you know how.

I wish I could help you more, unfortunately I don't have any experience with Spectrum trackers. My experience is with Amiga trackers, that's why I was aware of the software that handled those formats. Hopefully someone else here can give you more guidance regarding the ZX side of things.

Thank you! 🙂I did download it and tried the songs what came with it. How KDFsoft´s AY Megademo Digital Part 2 is done? It clearly sounds it has digitized samples there. Does this work on the Spectrum, too? Can the Spectrum run this with some game, or does it need too much power? I am not thinking to use it with my JSWED game, just asking. 🙂 I have tried XMPlay with ZXTune plugin, too, but I don´t know how I could get what I want with it. How I can load .pt3 to Soundtracker Compiler anyway? Soundtracker Compiler is a .TZX file, ie used on the Spectrum, not Windows. To load you need to have either tape file or disk file, .pt3 is not either one. Are you able to compile .pt3 file to use it in JSWED? I can send you my .pt3 testfile.

I did it. JSWED runs on Mac! Free and easy. Download Jswed229.exe Download and run Porting Kit. It is safe. Give it permission to read some folders like Download folder where you keep Jswed and some games to edit. Switch to Apps → Custom port, like on the screenshot Agree on all, choose downloaded jswed229.exe when prompted When it's done you get an app that runs windows based software in one click perfectly Happy JSW editing, mac users

Your welcome! While your at it, give this one a look: https://zxtune.bitbucket.io/

Yes but vs 8 (well 16 I suppose) ... Not a fan of its styling though or colour. The hardware I do like very much. Reminds me that I need to ask about (elsewhere) tape input as it doesn't work on the emulators I have to hand.

Thank you! 🤗 I will try XMPlay tomorrow. 🙂

A very lovely screen, with great detail! 🙂 And a cute idea, too. I have done some little bits in the past, with Basic, but the graphics weren´t this good. 😄

Done!

I did check your site via your links, I like your drawings and their colours! 🙂

Thank you, I did read worldofsam. Nice to see Sam Coupé specs and info, there were too much for a one go, though, I must continue later. 🙂 I checked SA1099 from the youtube, the first example was just like AY, but the others introduced more than 3 channels, too. 🙂 After those videos, I am not sure, if sound quality wise SA1099 is near the ST or better somehow. Amiga seems to be still ahead, with it´s sample player. There were some really well made tunes there, showing what SA1099 can do. 🙂 Stereo is a nice thing to have, something what ST doesn´t have. With 6 channels even better! 🙂 Graphicswise Sam looks good, but having just 128 colours was a surprise. Though, back in the day I think most people would have been happy with them and wouldn´t have missed 256, 512 or more colours. According worldofsam specs, RAM delays were slowing Sam quite a much! So in average, the ST is faster?

Thank you. 🙂 BZR Player is unstable, at least with .pt3 and .ay files, even I didn´t choose the unstable version. It has crashed many times when I added a file. XMPlay has a problem, too. XMPlay.exe and XMPlay textfile won´t be unzipped for some reason. Only .dll files will unzip. I tried to download and unzip again, no luck. Could somebody please send me a message, attaching the missing XMPlay.exe and XMPlay textfile, thank you. 🙂

In 2012 I had a project on creating a design for a non-formal underground club for cinema lovers. It was real fun, I had almost no limits on my creativity. Besides all other work, I was needed to design arrows that could navigate guests to the toilets and the bar. Guess, who the main characters are? More can be seen on my old website: graphical identity, interior design and website

I'd like to share my experience on creating unique presents to the girls I was into: Marina the firequest and Lena vs Margo. As you can guess, they are adressed to two girls, whom I wanted to impress in a non-standard way: Marina and Helen (Lena). — Flowers or box of sweets? Nah. — Games, made by yourself, where every room represents some story of your relationship? YES. Worked as a charm! — Is that me? Have you made it yourself? Oooh! — Yep, and that's me drawing a picture of you, and — see — there is your lovely kitty above the frame! (screen from Marina the Firequest) Works for the type of women who appreciate creativeness over fake emotions, those non-glamorous best type girlfriends. Have you ever gifted games or used them to play with SO? Invited your gfs to play JSW?

Oh, yes, UMM definitely drew a lot of attention and much discussion! And quite deservedly so 🙂 . Wow! If you would like to elaborate on it (e.g. what the "right type" means), it would be a great subject for the Chat section 😉 . Oh yes, it was greatly appreciated even by people who are not normally JSW fans. It's a great game! And not so small, well, it's certainly not a minigame. I definitely hope you will! 🙂

Thank you, Hervé! I consider it an honour and a serious responsibility at the same time. I will do my best to check everything thoroughly, and I'm looking forward to it very much indeed! 🙂

The specs are OK... Sound is a SA1099 chip similar but higher spec than the AY chip found in the 128 Spectrum and Amstrad CPC ranges, amongst others. In particular its six channel , with stereo*** *** Technically the Spectrum is too but its been joined internally as I recall. Here: https://www.worldofsam.org/products/sam-coupe-specifications

Daniel, thanks for such outstanding archive of UMM mentiones. Haven't been tracking reactions, honestly. A few thoughts: I haven't been disappointed, I was quite sure, that "ultimate" word in the title means I haven't lied to the audience: it was ultimate difficult, ultimately different and it was jsw engine at its ultimate limits. It was experimental and experiments could be faced like that. Important that it hasn't been unnoticed, which is worse of all for me. Besides that, it was my final year at the art university and I started working, no time left. I got GF (one, then another, many of them), so had to spend less times on gaming. UMM took lots of my time! Spoiler: jsw games were super successful original presents. A bit geeky, but works for the right type of women. Almost lost interest in retro gaming, was quite interested in playing Boulder Dash Gdash clone by Artsoft for the past year. Can recommend! Small JSW games are not that bad, by the way. They are fun and not so ultimate to finish, can be played even without a rollback hell. Even Zx Heroes wasn't too long and it was appreciated. I think if I'll return to jsw making, I'd stick to this genre. I'm fine, live in Moscow, married, have kids, run a business (place branding, developing tourism, design, wayfinding, maps).

hello Daniel and everyone Here is a progress report on the creation of my new game. -> I have finished and tested 58 rooms (90%) The last 6 rooms are being finished. I will then finish choosing the names of the rooms. I have planned a translation into French, English and Spanish. I also have to finish the title screen to present it to you! And then play to check everything and also to correct colors or passages that will not suit me in the end. Then... Daniel will be the official tester as for all my previous games. I trust you, your vigilance is important to deliver a flawless game. Have a good week everyone See you soon Hervé

Hi Igor, it was a great pleasure working on your Frosya games - thank YOU for approving of my creation of bug-fixed editions of "Frosya the Cat" and "Frosya the Cat - Lite Version" ("Jet Cat Frosya" didn't need any fixing, because it was fully completable; still, it was a pleasure to play and RZX record it 🙂 ).

Welcome to the forum, Igor! I hope you have come here to stay 🙂.

Thanks for posting the photos, Igor! Frosya was a beautiful cat, indeed! 🙂 I hope the nostalgia will make you create more JSW games. Since there's no JSWED for Mac at the moment, you could get a cheap PC - it could really be an old, obsolete machine, JSWED doesn't require modern parameters - and use it just to design new games 🙂 .

Yes, and here is Frosya with her kittens in real life: the main heroes of the game.

Hi guys, hi dear Sendy! Missed you so much. Ultimate Manic Miner is the hardcore jsw gaming with a low respect to the newcomers. The target audience would probably be crazy jsw players like Andrew Broad. Better play it on youtube. Over hype? Probably. The effect of the youth maximalism. I'm fine and this is my first actual day on the forum. So much has been going on here. Forward to stay in touch more and, might be, return to jsw scene if I find the way to launch jswed on my mac.