MtM

I didn't make it in the end, oh well. If anyone knows of any good links to things that happened and pictures

etc. then please feel free to share them here.

4 hours ago, Spider said:

This is tomorrow and Sunday 🙂

Yes it is, but no one seems to be going. I doubt I will now Andy. Too much to do this weekend now. Oh well.

Maybe next year? Unless anyone _is_ going after all? Who knows, if the weather is good Sunday I may make it up

there...

Superb dedicated work that Danny! Thank you!

Good work by Bob, but I found the new Central Cavern too hard 😉

17 hours ago, Norman Sword said:

When Willy returned to the house, it did not feel the same. Those long years being lathargic had dulled his senses. 

Revisiting his past (Manic Panic) has installed a new vigor in his life. His activities have pushed has lathargic past into the past. Now he has no need for a zimmer frame, and no need for glasses. Willy has a new purpose in life.









(any problems and I will probably fix them)

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I love the spirit of the game description Norman! Not just because it probably applies to us all well middle aged men now on here, but because it stays true to the days of buying a game on tape, and there only being limited room for about a paragraph of narrative as to what the situation was regarding the game, the backstory if you will. Bravo!

On 10/8/2021 at 7:13 PM, jetsetdanny said:

Variants V and W of John Elliott's JSW64 do exactly that 🙂 . From JSW you enter the MM caverns and have to go through all of them before exiting back to the JSW game map.

I must download these games! Thank you Danny. I had heard of them but there are _so_ many mods etc. and so little time to play them all. Could I be extremely

lazy and ask you provide a link to the one you think is best or biggest please? Bear in mind I like easier maps for exploring over rock hard room design 😉

Thanks again!

This looks excellent! There is real scope here to make a modern combination of a standalone JSW if you want, and maybe

a combined version of all the official Miner W games, into one big map, linking them all properly. It would be work, but say

for instance all the official rooms were combined into a big map, there could be a room where say you enter the Central Cavern

then have to play through all 20 screens before you escape into a room back in JSW etc. I think it could be awesome!

Just my opinion anyway, but I hope you get it all into a releasable state for the public. Please post it here too!

Spider makes a good point about the Amiga version of JSW, I still have the original of it here on my shelves, it too used scrolling, it was atrocious, one of the worst games ever ported to the Amiga, and I love JSW like everyone here, so scrolling in itself is not just a gameplay feature that guarantees a 'better' game, it needs to be done well like it seems to be here, and adds to the game.

On 9/15/2021 at 10:46 AM, IRF said:

Indeed, I got a bass guitar for my birthday this year, so a lot of my spare time has been spent plucking and twanging!

I used to play the bass. I was reasonably good, a lot better than I was at programming 😉

What kind of bass is it Ian, i.e. what make?

There is one electric bassist, Jaco, and then there is everyone else.

The Matthew Smith of electric bass playing.

A sad time for all Sinclair fans and people who started out in the 80s. A man at least partially before his time.

Good to see IRF back on the forums too 🙂

On 9/20/2021 at 6:51 PM, Toki said:

I actually spent ages trying to fix that in my version, until I realised it was possible in the Speccy original 🤣 It made me quite happy to see that I’d managed to replicate the mechanics so well!

The Moonlight Sonata tune that plays over the intro / room tour was ripped from the C64 version of JSW, and I adjusted the instruments slightly to make it sound more atmospheric. I was quite pleased with the way it turned out 👍 (from memory I think that music plays over the new ending I added too, featuring Maria 😉)

I will have to see this new ending! 😉

Welcome to the forums Toki! You are most welcome indeed!

As a regular browser of csbd.dk I am not quite sure how I have managed to miss this, unless I have simply

forgotten about it. It is excellent, just been playing it on vice. Very accurate it appears gameplay wise,

excellent music too, it does have the charm of the original ZX version, and is much better than the official

original port of MM on the C64, which is okay, but not in this league. Thank you!

21 hours ago, Spider said:

Thought: Are you on Facebook ? 🙂 It may be worthwhile posting about it there in the 'Central Cavern' group perhaps.

I could 'tweet' about it, with a link to this topic too if you want. I generally only use Twitter to announce new releases and news from here anyway.

14 hours ago, jetsetdanny said:

As mentioned before, I won't be able to go this year ☹️. But I hope you guys will be able to meet up and have a great time! 

a) not on FB. In truth Andy I am just thinking of the folks off here really, as it is such a small, close knit group of people who post etc.

b) doesn't look like it is going to happen tbh JSDanny. A pity. I will potentially go myself, and if anyone nearer the time wants to meet up then fine.

Hello JSW & MM fans!

Just a reminder, this is only next month! Has anyone got any ideas yet if they may go?

Even if we are not having a stall, which is probably far too late now, we could still meet up. Just a thought.

I played the contents of the archive a bit. The music is the best thing about it. Not knocking the game too much because I could not of made it, but in truth, it is fairly unrewarding to play.

Title says it all really. Are you okay IRF? Or just on holiday?

Watching the version of JSW 2 + being completed was good, when I finished it, just got the unplayable Central Cavern ending. Is there a link to that

version with the Well Done screen on this site? I must of missed it if there is.

Personally Norman I am glad the maze section didn't make it into the final game for what it is worth.

Thanks to everyone who replied, much appreciated.

I was looking really for a personal recommendation, but in the end I followed JSDanny's advice and link to the MM section

of his excellent website and had a go at MM2 and MM2! 😉

I will continue to explore that.

I can imagine the stress of a speedrun is terrible!

I think this should be in the Olympics 😉

they are awesome colours!

I am hoping to get a bit of gaming done later for the first time in a long time.

Could someone please recommend a MM mod or variant to play tonight? Not the original, or Norman's

Manic Panic, or Spider's 10 level corona version from last year as I have played them all fairly

recently. What is the mod with 40 levels in it, if I remember there being one like that?

Anyway, if someone has a recommendation to download to play later that would be really good. If not

I will have a look myself.

I love looking at maps to the JSW & MM games, but not too closely, as I still like some surprise when playing. If only modern games were as good and mappable!

Thanks Andy for the effort of these!

Hello Folks,

I guess that people are not really wanting to commit to the above, at least not at the moment. Perhaps close to the time it might be possible

to make a few arrangements if anyone is going. I hope so.

They are things of beauty!

Apologies JSDanny, didn't know you lived in North America currently. Travelling is not so easy for anyone at the moment.

Thank you for the thread you highlight, I have read it. It is really good it was such a positive experience for you going to the

Play Expo in 2019 - hopefully it would be the same for anyone on here who will go in 2021.