Metalmickey

anyways ... onto my project .. my thoughts turn to the idea of trying to make the game upgradable - currently the 'unused' area that i have filled with code that deals with the completion and time out sequences was - i recently discovered - intended for more graphics - so when using JSWED to upgrade to 128K it all goes a bit pear shaped. It's clearly much more optimisable, there would surely not be a need for three separate routines with the foot coming down .. i have been working on trying to introduce routines that make this area more efficient ... a work in progress......

see i think the shopkeeper was in on it .. something to do with claiming back the tax ... that might have been an unreleased episode...?

Hi, just spotted this, somewhat late in the day... not sure what i can bring to the table, my main reason for making contributions to this site was down to an idea of what the original JSW would have looked like with all of the bugs fixed and what the remaining four rooms might have looked like were they not overwritten by the DOS code .. when doing the 'As Manufacturer Intended' project i really only wanted to make the bare minimal alterations just to ensure playability and perhaps completability (is that a word??) without life loss, so looking at Conservatory Roof i wanted to retain all four fire cells and perhaps one or two additional additions to the green area to ensure the items can be collected but at least some element of challenge in there ... of as well as colouring in the conveyor Having looked at the RZX i'm super impressed at the development of this game .. Norman Sword has commented that an ASM is available on this site somewhere .. as someone who is still learning assembly i'd be keen to know where i can find it ... in short, excellent work to all those involved!!

Can't believe i've only just spotted this. I've made a fair few contributions over the years although I never met him. Sad news indeed 😞

Saw that your site was down a while back and just thought you'd had enough but then saw it back up again so i thought i'd set about trying to restore my files following an episode of me being an idiot and dropping my laptop (yes powered on at the time) down the stairs .. from the Top Landing ... (insert facepalm here) Anyways, i've decided to work on a version 6 and implement IRF's Mr Benn style toilet dash amongst some other refinements... think i need to go back and have a good read of this thread

Evening all, thought i'd pick up where i left off now i've got my files back ... now where was i....?

Great stuff, welcome back, took a bit of a break myself, hope to resume contributing again soon

I would imagine this would be done by means of some sort of spreadsheet with hyperlinks to a reliable source such as WOS or TZX archive and perhaps the relevant POKE to make it your starting room if appropriate (assuming Willy isn't left in mid air if said POKE was applied) ... it would involve plenty of work, likelihood is that the list of rooms would run into the thousands by now given the number of iterations out there currently

I do recall reading an article in CRASH! magazine way back then, it did indeed mention about the 10 minute wait bug and i did attempt to try it out so i left Daley waiting just before the finish line and went off to so something else, unfortunately my mother thought i had just got bored with the computer and reclaimed use of the TV for the rest of the day .... :( It wasn't until i rediscovered ol' rubberkeys a few years back when i decided to have another go at it but the version i had has a seconds counter that runs up to 500 seconds and then Daley then gets a foul .. maybe i'll have a look on WOS later

maybe i could invent a machine to make seven copies of myself and practise jumping over a giant possessed moving saw :wacko:

alas no Danny, but had the lottery been around at the time and if was old enough to play it i would perhaps have considered it ... and maybe even attempt to recreate a life-size version of Willy's Mansion and surrounding grounds ... probably wouldn't go as far as building a boobytrapped attic though....

see i always used to think that was a myth as when i tried it with my copy it would time out after 10 minutes and i would lose a life, i must have had a later revision of the game... :blink:

ok confession time (hands outstretched awaiting the handcuffs...) i actually copied out the entire codesheet using numbers for the colours and my mother's typewriter to re-create the colour chart, it took, to the best of my recollection, about 24 attempts to complete and an awful lot of tolerance from my mother putting up with the continuous 'clacking' of keys as i punched away at the keys, needless to say she did not thank me for wearing out her ribbon... on the plus side i did manage to make a photocopy - friendly version which i managed to sell for 50p a sheet ... i think i made about

Liking that, i think that's well worth putting into the next version, i've got quite a few corrections to work on... i have little doubt that if MS had the time and inclination to alter willy's animation he would have done something similar

All very well but did Mr Thompson finish his 100 metre dash in time?