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Bravo to everyone involved, real bit of JSW history here, thank you.

I use a Macbook pro, I really should get this to work as well and create my masterpiece! 😉
 

I use a Macbook pro, I really should get this to work as well and create my masterpiece! 😉
 

I use a Macbook pro, I really should get this to work as well and create my masterpiece! 😉
 

Bravo to everyone involved, real bit of JSW history here, thank you.

Hello everyone

I finished creating my new game "Willy in the Islands of Mystery / Part 2: The Temple"
I tested everything.
I'm going to play it for a few days and then Daniel will take over to test it as well and then program the music!
I'm going to start programming a new game!
See you soon
Hervé

I thought to bring you a little notice how my two games are doing. 🙂
The current room development stages are "Diner" 65% finished and "Mansion" 72% finished.
The needed little pieces of extra code is missing from both games.
No new music is available, I haven´t done anything for it, as it feels stupid to make music as I don´t know how to add the tunes to my games.
In "Mansion" game, I managed to get one buggy arrow room to work! 🙂 I mean the features/bugs of JSW or JSWED, I´m glad I managed to get around them and learned a bit more about arrows to make them do what they were not intended to do. 🙂 Let´s see, if somebody has made such an arrow room previously or not! 😉 
I don´t know yet, how to connect certain rooms together, this applies for both games. I have some ideas, though. 🙂 
The difficulty level for both games will be easier than in What a Wonderful World of Willie, but you will have to discover how to solve the rooms. 🙂 
No "impossible" rooms are included, there are some little "traps", though. 🙂 If you can´t solve the room, you have somehow gone the wrong route and haven´t practised enough. 🙂 Both games will have easy and a bit harder rooms to play, something for everyone! 🙂 

Hi,
I am Mike who posted the JSW tap file on the other forum. I stumbled across this thread by accident, and thought I'd share my knowledge on the provenance of the JSW software for the Lynx.
The JSW software actually came from a disk image, which a retro/lynx enthusiast had uploaded to the internet for the community. But disk images aren't very emulator friendly or accessible to users, and so I altered the loading program - which was written in Basic - to make it load as a single tap file. At the time, I had been writing a utility to create tap files for the Lynx, and so I had the necessary knowledge.
The version that I uploaded had a menu screen that allowed you to choose infinite lives. So I suspect it was hacked version. Hacked versions were inevitably made "back in the day" to help with playground distribution. But whether this was hacked more recently, I don't know.
The software does show a "by Tim Titchmarsh for Phoenixx Software" message. Why I originally thought it was by "Tynesoft" is unclear. This is probably just my mistake when I was trying find attributions for the software titles.
I've done some investigation and found a copy of an original advertisement for JSW (by Phoenixx Software) - which proves it was definitely of the era and not a later conversion (see attached). The magazine is the Lynx User Group's publication (Volume 1, issue 3, page 15) - which is available online. UKScone's Camputers Lynx Archive
Whether JSW was licensed to Phoenixx, is anyone's guess. But I am confident it is "of the era". I think Richard is right about those other software titles, which were probably later conversions by hobbyists.
There are a lot of similarities (hardware-wise) between the Lynx and Spectrum, and so software conversions wouldn't have been *that* challenging, relatively speaking. But the Lynx market was tiny, so hardly anyone bothered. The graphics were actually better on the Lynx (no colour clash!), but slow, and no good for gaming. The sound was just a simple beeper - like the spectrum.
Mike.

I've never gifted a game to any romantic partner. But I have a wife of many years who puts up with me spending time on JSW day after day and evening after evening. That's SO valuable! I could create a game for her, but I don't think she would want to see any more of JSW than she already does! 🤣

Those curtains are incredible!

You are a smooth operator Igor for sure!

You are a smooth operator Igor for sure!

Those curtains are incredible!

In 2012 I had a project on creating a design for a non-formal underground club for cinema lovers. It was real fun, I had almost no limits on my creativity.
Besides all other work, I was needed to design arrows that could navigate guests to the toilets and the bar. Guess, who the main characters are?
More can be seen on my old website: graphical identity, interior design and website

I'd like to share my experience on creating unique presents to the girls I was into: Marina the firequest and Lena vs Margo.
As you can guess, they are adressed to two girls, whom I wanted to impress in a non-standard way: Marina and Helen (Lena).
— Flowers or box of sweets? Nah.
— Games, made by yourself, where every room represents some story of your relationship? YES.
Worked as a charm!
— Is that me? Have you made it yourself? Oooh!
— Yep, and that's me drawing a picture of you, and — see — there is your lovely kitty above the frame!
(screen from Marina the Firequest)
Works for the type of women who appreciate creativeness over fake emotions, those non-glamorous best type girlfriends.
Have you ever gifted games or used them to play with SO? Invited your gfs to play JSW?

Those curtains are incredible!

Those curtains are incredible!

That is me, playing my own game in october 2002. By that time I've already started creating Zx Heroes.

I did it. JSWED runs on Mac!
Free and easy.
Download Jswed229.exe Download and run Porting Kit. It is safe. Give it permission to read some folders like Download folder where you keep Jswed and some games to edit. Switch to Apps → Custom port, like on the screenshot Agree on all, choose downloaded jswed229.exe when prompted When it's done you get an app that runs windows based software in one click perfectly Happy JSW editing, mac users

Daniel, thanks for such outstanding archive of UMM mentiones. Haven't been tracking reactions, honestly.
A few thoughts:
I haven't been disappointed, I was quite sure, that "ultimate" word in the title means I haven't lied to the audience: it was ultimate difficult, ultimately different and it was jsw engine at its ultimate limits. It was experimental and experiments could be faced like that. Important that it hasn't been unnoticed, which is worse of all for me. Besides that, it was my final year at the art university and I started working, no time left. I got GF (one, then another, many of them), so had to spend less times on gaming. UMM took lots of my time! Spoiler: jsw games were super successful original presents. A bit geeky, but works for the right type of women. Almost lost interest in retro gaming, was quite interested in playing Boulder Dash Gdash clone by Artsoft for the past year. Can recommend! Small JSW games are not that bad, by the way. They are fun and not so ultimate to finish, can be played even without a rollback hell. Even Zx Heroes wasn't too long and it was appreciated. I think if I'll return to jsw making, I'd stick to this genre. I'm fine, live in Moscow, married, have kids, run a business (place branding, developing tourism, design, wayfinding, maps).

Good luck with that list, it's very impressive, surely you will have done more versions of JSW than anyone if you manage to achieve all of these?
 
I am sure Danny can tell us who holds the record for most versions of JSW at this time Danny, that is the original version?
 
 

Good luck with that list, it's very impressive, surely you will have done more versions of JSW than anyone if you manage to achieve all of these?
 
I am sure Danny can tell us who holds the record for most versions of JSW at this time Danny, that is the original version?
 
 

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Thanks for posting that Danny, I knew of Henry's Hoard but never realised it was Martyn Brown who had created it, whose name I have always associated with Team17 since my Amiga owning days. Very sad, 57 is very young by today's typical ages. He seems to be well remembered though.

Thanks for posting that Danny, I knew of Henry's Hoard but never realised it was Martyn Brown who had created it, whose name I have always associated with Team17 since my Amiga owning days. Very sad, 57 is very young by today's typical ages. He seems to be well remembered though.