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Slightly late but Welcome @Cheez26

Slightly late but Welcome @Cheez26

Hi. My name is Chelsea but you can call me Cheez. What brought me here is @UncleWan's PvZ JSW48 remake and I am curious about how to make kinda games.
If you got any pointers on how to use JSWED on Linux (probably with Wine I would guess), I would appreciate it. Other than that, I hope to be friends with y'all. ❤️

Not too much more to do. I have npcs. miner and misc graphics in sprite sheets, the music is in opus format and the text will be done in custom fonts rather than a bitmap. Screen record works, save state works and the html level/npc editor is about 90% done but working.

I have a very busy work week. But hopefully later this week or early next week at the latest. Would be great to have some feedback from testing etc

latest editor screenshot

Here are some screenshots from my attempt to make a Manic Miner Construction Kit.

Most sprites and NPCs are now png spritesheets 32 x 32 so more detail available. These sprite sheets are made with gimp so are easily to editable. If anyone likes doing pixel art. Please do volunteer to help :)

The editor is currently a html web editor. But an in app sdl2 might also be possible. I will try and get a public repo and release up in the next couple of weeks.

View File Plants vs Zombies
Hello everyone.  
This is my first official JSW48K game, Plants vs Zombies.  
This project is heavily inspired by the classic game Plants vs. Zombies officially developed by PopCap Games, drawing references to its character sprites, visual assets and original soundtracks.  
In April 2025，l started the work of this project.
I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Daniel Gromann for his great support and contributions. He optimized and upgraded the game engine, integrated new background music together with complete audio playback logic, enriched the sprite resource library, designed more than ten extra game scenes, and finished the title screen design and other related content. I apologize if there are any unmentioned contributions.
For more details, please read the 'ReadMe' in the file.🙂
Submitter UncleWan Submitted 05/16/2026 Category Jet Set Willy [Remakes]  

Ken Knight (itsmethyroid), the author of Jet Set Willy: Australian Cousin, has drawn my attention to Plat 3064, a game for the C64 inspired by Manic Miner, created by Tom Walker for the Minigame Competition 2003 in the 4K Category (it ranked at #31).
I don't think it's ever been mentioned here before. The pertinent links are:
https://www.lemon64.com/game/plat-3064   https://csdb.dk/release/?id=10852

I have just updated the Links section on JSW Central.
Please let me know if you have any comments and suggestions (especially for things to add, etc.).
 

I have gone back to the original project by @fawtytoo as I could not get LOVE2D to work with a web browser using this great implementation of the game

So I have added the record game option (push R) Play back via the (O)ptions Menu that also lets you select lives and level. Also has high score per level (S) on title screen 

Pressing U in game saves progress. L on Title to select on 5 save slots

Also runs on touch screen(Only test Android)

https://monkeyx.net/

Hello everyone
I am thrilled to announce that, with the collaboration between Daniel and me, my first official JSW game “Plants vs Zombies” is about to be released.
It uses the JSW48 engine and, under Daniel's work, has many enhanced features.🙂
This is a preview, because I still have some final preparations to make. Once I am ready, I will release the game.
Stay tuned!

 
 
 

Thanks for the diagnosis and solution.
Before I read the topic, and just saw the title my first thought was "try to run it in compatibility mode, W7 ideal probably" but I see its more involved than that.

A recent Windows 11 update - I believe it's the "2026-03 Update (KB5086672) (26200.8117)" to be precise - makes JSWED (all versions, I believe, I've checked the 2.3.7 and the 2.2.9 ones) fail to launch. When you try to launch the program, you get this error message:

I contacted John Elliott about it and he very kindly responded quickly, explaining that _fmode_dll appears to be part of the Microsoft CRT library and that looking at the dependencies of JSWED, this seems to refer to CRTDLL.DLL in particular.
John told me that the discussion at this link: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/discussions/windowsinsiderprogram/windows-11-build-26200-8116-broke-system-dll-crtdll-dll/4508785 seems to suggest that retrieving an earlier version of CRTDLL.DLL might help.   I have copied the CRTDLL.DLL file from an old laptop running on Windows 10 and I substituted with it the current file of the same name in the folders: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ and C:\Windows\WinSxS\x86_microsoft-windows-crtdll_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.26100.1_none_82a9fe5e3ade4a14\.   You need to substitute the current file in the C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ or else JSWED won't launch. I'm not sure about the one in the C:\Windows\WinSxS\x86_microsoft-windows-crtdll_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.26100.1_none_82a9fe5e3ade4a14\ folder (I first substituted the CRTDLL.DLL file in this particular folder and JSWED still wouldn't launch. It only started working after I substituted the file in C:\Windows\SysWOW64\, so I can say with a 100% certainty that this latter substitution is critical; I wouldn't know about the former).   If anyone faces the same problem, the CRTDLL.DLL file from my old Windows 10 laptop that has worked for me is attached to this message. In order to make the swap, you will need to take ownership of the files (and perhaps also folder/s) in question from TrustedInstaller. This link explains how to do it: https://www.google.com/search?q=you+require+permission+from+trustedinstaller+to+make+changes+to+this+file+windows+11&sca_esv=e926bb0053f95734&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS820US820&sxsrf=ANbL-n6csLu1fdWc35Al3F1HC01pQzzddw%3A1776297342361&ei=fiXgacDYFdOqwbkPhbC32A0&biw=1920&bih=945&oq=you+require+permission+from+trustedinstaller+to+make+changes+to+this+file&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiSXlvdSByZXF1aXJlIHBlcm1pc3Npb24gZnJvbSB0cnVzdGVkaW5zdGFsbGVyIHRvIG1ha2UgY2hhbmdlcyB0byB0aGlzIGZpbGUqAggCMgoQABhHGNYEGLADMgoQABhHGNYEGLADMgoQABhHGNYEGLADMgoQABhHGNYEGLADMgoQABhHGNYEGLADMgoQABhHGNYEGLADMgoQABhHGNYEGLADMgoQABhHGNYEGLADMg0QABiABBiKBRhDGLADSOYSUABYAHABeAGQAQCYAQCgAQCqAQC4AQPIAQCYAgGgAgWYAwCIBgGQBgmSBwExoAcAsgcAuAcAwgcDMi0xyAcEgAgB&sclient=gws-wiz-serp .   Good luck and please let me know if this was helpful if you run into the same problem! 🙂    crtdll.dll

Upon further investigation the later one seems to be 768 , the earlier 256... In regard to a thought I had as there's two BB versions:
Original (BB)

Later (BB)

Software Projects (as MS "took the game with him", iirc) , some changes codewise and graphics there's a separate topic on that:

Mastertronic (apart from loader, byte identical to the SP version except it is missing the final byte) resulting in a slightly wonky Final Barrier floor guardian:

Ventamatic (Spanish Release) status unknown aka official sanctioned or not. It is byte identical to the SP version for the codeblock but has a different loader:

EDOS (Having seen the phyical tape) I would think this is not an official release:

 
In regards to inlays , as far as I am aware inlay 2 is the most common , followed by 3 and then 1 and then 4. 5 and 6 are more likely found outside the UK.
🙂 
 

Sorry I missed your initial reply somehow. I do subscribe to topics I start but I guess (given the age of the start date) it fell off the radar as such, its fine. 🙂 
 
So its the full attribute file ?
I'm not aware of the other variations unless it changed with the BB 'cover' as there's two type of inlay , I had always assumed they were otherwise identical and it was an artwork change only.
It is the BB version ? As confirmed by the (c) message on the scrolly ? There's other ways to check but that's the 'easy no action needed' way

You have to quit to the menu (right click, then Exit IIRC), and save the file there, so then you're able to "quick save" with F2. I'm not sure why it happens but i know that changing to JSW128/JSW64 causes it.

New release with colour cycled keys/items :)

Plus features mentioned above

https://github.com/monkeyx-net/ManicMiner-LOVE2D/releases

Frank N Stein - Bugfix.tzx
Zero modifications other than the patch applied. Note there's very very little room in the Basic to insert any cheats (there's no space to insert the patch this way as pokes) due to ramtop location. Are ways around it such as sticking them into the screen and calling it but that's a 'mod' I suppose.
NB: May need loading in 48K mode only. I could 'fix' this but that would be a modification lol.

Frank N Stein - Bugfix.tzx
Zero modifications other than the patch applied. Note there's very very little room in the Basic to insert any cheats (there's no space to insert the patch this way as pokes) due to ramtop location. Are ways around it such as sticking them into the screen and calling it but that's a 'mod' I suppose.
NB: May need loading in 48K mode only. I could 'fix' this but that would be a modification lol.

Yes, it is a great game. And it was fun working on the bug-fixed edition that would finally be completable, with Ian (IRF) and Andy (Spider) back in 2019 🙂 .
Which game are you playing now, Mike (if any)?

I wonder if the NCB had any words with Gremlin Graphics about this , thinking about it:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/5617/ZX-Spectrum/Wanted_Monty_Mole
Actually saw a bit of an old TV clip of a mini interview with the author, for some reason I'd assumed (even then) he was much older. He was about the same age as me back then...

Frankenstein is an interesting platform game. Get the bug fixed version as otherwise it will falter at about level 8 or so (had this back then when it was new) 
Surprisingly good perhaps one of the best compiled Basic games actually.
Although one post long ago along with others on the WOS forum helped spur the author into an updated version , I still sometimes prefer the original for its simplicity.
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/1849/ZX-Spectrum/Frank_N_Stein
 

Stumbled into this thread while trying to get Lynx JSW to work in MESS for the Raspberry Pi (managed it, yay!), and just wondered - has ANYONE EVER successfully gotten through the staircase at First Landing on the Lynx version? As it stands it's a five-room game.

Haha, that's a very interesting idea!😄
 

Thank you for releasing the corrected versions, UncleWan! 👍 😊

And some feedback regarding the English version:
There's one thing that would benefit from a correction. There is a typo on the title screen: the letters read "FESTVIAL" instead of "FESTIVAL".
The same typo also appears in the scrolling message, so it should be corrected there as well.
If you decide to correct it and re-release the game, I would also suggest correcting the following spelling issues in the room names and the scrolling message:
- "Ha!New year decorations on sale!" - I would capitalise "Y" in "year" (to make it New Year);
- "Outer Spacestation" - I would make "Space Station" two words.
- "Watching Fireworks with Family !" - there's no need for a space between the "y" in "Family" and the exclamation mark (it would be there in French, but not in English 😉).
- In the scrolling message, I believe there is no reason to capitalise the words "Gifts", "Area" and "Midnight" - I would start them all in lower-case letters.
Again, it's not criticism, but some suggestions to make your beautiful game, UncleWan, spotless ☺️.