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Amstrad Cpc464 Version
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Amstrad Cpc464 Version
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Jsw Dragon 32 Version
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Jet Set Billy Gumboot Software ( Colour Genie )
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Jet Set Billy Gumboot Software ( Colour Genie )
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I started collecting Colour Genie games about two years ago. I don't have Jet Set Billy in my collection but an image of the cassette is available on line. I've created a page for it on my Everygamegoing site. http://www.everygamegoing.com/landing/items/colour_genie/arcade_games/tapes/Jet_Set_Billy.html There's a Colour Genie emulator for the PC called Genieous which is quite good (Link to this is on the same page above) and you can also view instructions on how to convert games back to WAV by entering 'Colour Genie Conversion' as a search term on the Everygamegoing site.
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Personal Computer News
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Jsw Videos
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Yes, it has the usual tune and the bouncing Manic Miner introduction. The instructions for it are here: http://www.dragon32universe.info/info/dragon/html/sprojects/Manic_Miner.html
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Here's another large selection of screenshots from the Acorn Electron version of Jet Set Willy 2 which was converted by Chris Robson.
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Here is a one-minute Rapid Review of the BBC Micro version of Jet Set Willy 1 and Jet Set Willy 2: http://www.acornelectron.co.uk/info_videos/electron/tynesoft/Jet_Set_Willy_1_000.html http://www.acornelectron.co.uk/info_videos/electron/tynesoft/Jet_Set_Willy_2_000.html If you like the style of these videos, then be sure to check our AcornElectronTV and Dragon32Universe on YouTube which between them have 100s of these Rapid Reviews.
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Acorn Electron Version
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Once upon a time, when I was a child and my neighbour had an Acorn Electron, I played a game called Trainiac - a fast little number even though it was in Basic. I remembered this game and went looking for it on the Internet. I finally found it, after some 5 years of searching, hiding away in the pages of Personal Computer News magazine. I then spent another 3 years collecting up every issue of this magazine - from many different sources! - just to see if there were any other great games within its pages. Finally, a friend had me take all those magazines and create Personal Computer News, which he updates when he can (with a little help from me on the framework/coding side): You'll find 100s of game reviews and screenshots on this site too, including reviews of Amstrad and Spectrum versions of Manic Miner: {Invalid link}
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The PC version was created by Andy Noble and, from being all over the Internet in the early Noughties, there's precious little trace of it to be found now. I wrote a review of it for the EUG magazine back in the day, which can be found here: http://www.acornelectron.co.uk/eug/revs/pc_games/Jet_Set_Willy_PC_000.html
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Here is another selection of screenshots. The PCN review of the Spectrum version of Manic Miner can be found here: http://www.personalcomputernews.co.uk/pcna/html/023/personal_computer_news_023_gameplay_spectrum_48k_manic_miner.html
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Here is a selection of screenshots from the Amstrad CPC464 version of Manic Miner. This version was produced by Amsoft, presumably under licence from Software Projects. There is a review of this game on the Personal Computer News web site too: http://www.personalcomputernews.co.uk/pcnb/html/096/personal_computer_news_096_gameplay_amstrad_manic_miner.html
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Here are a large number of the rooms in the Acorn Electron version.
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The map is quite big so here it is as a zip file. Jet_Set_Willy_1_000.zip
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Here are two screenshots from Jet Set Willy for the Acorn Electron. I'll try and do some more over the next couple of days. There's a map of the Electron house too.
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Yes, I use Irfanview as well with all my images. Usually what I do is grab everything at natural resolution and then double the resolution for a web page, and create a thumbnail version at 162 width (Don't ask me why, that just seems to be a magic number). Then you have one image you know is always going to be the same width (162px), one which is the actual resolution and one finally that's formatted for the web. One thing I find with Irfanview is that if making a *smaller* image, you get a better quality image with the 'Resample' turned ON, However, if making it bigger (i.e, doubling it), the same function must be turned 'OFF' or else it applies filters and stuff to the doubled image (meaning you can't halve it back to the original again).
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Yes, I believe there are a few articles in Dragon User that mention these, making the comment that Roy Coates managed to squeeze in an extra 10 rooms on top of the Speccy version in about 2/3rds of the memory. Also, he clearly shared Matthew Smith's original creative streak. If anyone fancies playing the Dragon version, then a good emulator is xRoar, although it's less user-friendly than it could be.
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I like the different sections with all of the screenshots but they seem to be in wildly different sizes. For example, the true resolution of BBC screens is 320 x 256. However, in the section here, the screens are 1200 x 783 which does not scale down to the original resolution. The same is true for the Amstrad and C64 versions. It would be better to keep screens as *exact replicas* from the start. Having produced loads of 8-bit stuff over the years, I know how easily this can become a headache if you want to resize images in the future. Anyone got any thoughts on this?
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A while ago, there were only two websites about the Dragon 32, which was a fairly popular machine back in its day. These were DragonWiki and The Dragon Archive. Both were Wiki-type sites and I found them pretty difficult to navigate, and many games did not have instructions or links to reviews. So I created this site: http://www.dragon32universe.info/ which is like a Panini sticker album of information. I am updating it fairly regularly with new acquisitions (Got a few new games this week!) and it has a lot of duplicate tapes and disks in its for sale section. Also it has some fairly rare stuff on there - i.e. games that probably only sold in single figures. You can find the Willy games in the Professional Releases under Software Projects publisher.
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