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Next time I’m on my dev laptop I will give it a more thorough play 👍 I’ll definitely try out the level designer too, it would be awesome to be able to contribute!

I just had a little go at this on my phone, it’s awesome! Very cool idea. The graphics in the first cavern are a REALLY nice recreation of The Final Barrier 👌

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 😉)

Ah, glad you enjoyed it! Yeah, the original C64 version was perfectly ok, but for me was a little disappointing (especially the music!!) and there were just a good few annoyances that it didn’t play / look the same as the Spectrum version. I started my version with the intent of just fixing a few bits here and there, but it just grew into a huge overhaul. I would love to do the same with C64 JSW, but I think that would be far too much to take on!!

Ah, there should be a .d64 file to download on the page also? That’s a C64 disk image. The .sid file is just the music I believe. Let me know if you have any more trouble and I’ll post a Dropbox link to a zip instead. I love this website btw, I’m such a massive geek for MM and JSW. I’ve been learning Z80 assembly recently and have been studying the Speccy MM source code… It’s so great to see and understand the workings of that game I have been addicted to for 40 years!! 🤣

Hey there, I’m not sure if it has been mentioned on these forums before or not, but I made a deluxe version of Manic Miner for the Commodore 64 a couple of years ago. It included quite a few improvements and fixes, and I put a lot of effort into it to ensure it matched the original Speccy version as closely as possible. You can download it from the following link… The game also lets you choose between the C64 original or my deluxe version. Enjoy! https://csdb.dk/release/?id=185586