Hello,
after more than 40 years, I haven't stopped playing with the Zx Spectrum and spreading the enthusiam for it.
I've recently bought 'The Spectrum' from RetroGaming and I have to say that it delivers an experience very similar to the orginal Speccy.
It is so close to the 'original' that it doesn't have a "modern" way to enter pokes.
Thus, to play and practice Manic Miner I had two possible choice:
- breaking to basic and poking the old fashion way... quite nostalgic, but very boring and unpractical;
- hack Manic Miner to add a "cheat menu".
I choosed the latter.
It took a while for the memories of Z80 assembly to arise, but little by little I remembered enough to hack into MM code.
Thanks to the complete disassembly by Richard Dymond I had a solid base to work on.
The project, as well as the assembled TAP files, can be found in the GitHub repo:
https://github.com/pacrox/MANIC-MINER_PAK
This is an extract from the README:
Some screenshots taken with Zesarux:
Running on 'The Spectrum':
Best,
P.