Bob The Polar Bear

Snowballs 2025 
It's a tweaked version of MM, with 10 caverns, it's for Windows, and has a Winter theme. Enjoy! 🙂

It's also the game Facebook tried to ban... or... I just happened to lose my account after posting the link there. Strange, as I did it only as a hobby and 100% free. There is no way for peeps to pay for it even if they wanted to. Anyway Google Drive link is below. Windows won't run it automatically, you'll have to ask for more info and see it triggers "Unknown Publisher" warning. You then have to pick, "Run anyway"... or to be super safe, wait till someone else does it and reports it is safe. Good luck! 🙂

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n9aNXmaqCdu1IpCfX5Ma3fJcIdWoFIXX/view?usp=drive_link

Looking for a new online home, and as most of my game projects are MM related, this looks like being a regular haunt, and honestly a better fit 🙂

Just been banned from FB for impersonating myself, which is insane. And can't be bothered fighting it, as technically my old account is still live, although haven't posted there in years. If anyone knows me from various FB groups, please get in touch 🙂 Included a screenshot from a current project to show I'm a genuine fan.

 

Welcome / Welcome Back 

Snowballs 2025 
It's a tweaked version of MM, with 10 caverns, it's for Windows, and has a Winter theme. Enjoy! 🙂

It's also the game Facebook tried to ban... or... I just happened to lose my account after posting the link there. Strange, as I did it only as a hobby and 100% free. There is no way for peeps to pay for it even if they wanted to. Anyway Google Drive link is below. Windows won't run it automatically, you'll have to ask for more info and see it triggers "Unknown Publisher" warning. You then have to pick, "Run anyway"... or to be super safe, wait till someone else does it and reports it is safe. Good luck! 🙂

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n9aNXmaqCdu1IpCfX5Ma3fJcIdWoFIXX/view?usp=drive_link

Have not used this forum as much as I should have 🙂

Looking for a new online home, and as most of my game projects are MM related, this looks like being a regular haunt, and honestly a better fit 🙂

Just been banned from FB for impersonating myself, which is insane. And can't be bothered fighting it, as technically my old account is still live, although haven't posted there in years. If anyone knows me from various FB groups, please get in touch 🙂 Included a screenshot from a current project to show I'm a genuine fan.

 

Snowballs 2025 
It's a tweaked version of MM, with 10 caverns, it's for Windows, and has a Winter theme. Enjoy! 🙂

It's also the game Facebook tried to ban... or... I just happened to lose my account after posting the link there. Strange, as I did it only as a hobby and 100% free. There is no way for peeps to pay for it even if they wanted to. Anyway Google Drive link is below. Windows won't run it automatically, you'll have to ask for more info and see it triggers "Unknown Publisher" warning. You then have to pick, "Run anyway"... or to be super safe, wait till someone else does it and reports it is safe. Good luck! 🙂

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n9aNXmaqCdu1IpCfX5Ma3fJcIdWoFIXX/view?usp=drive_link

Thank you, Bob! 👍

Snowballs 2025 
It's a tweaked version of MM, with 10 caverns, it's for Windows, and has a Winter theme. Enjoy! 🙂

It's also the game Facebook tried to ban... or... I just happened to lose my account after posting the link there. Strange, as I did it only as a hobby and 100% free. There is no way for peeps to pay for it even if they wanted to. Anyway Google Drive link is below. Windows won't run it automatically, you'll have to ask for more info and see it triggers "Unknown Publisher" warning. You then have to pick, "Run anyway"... or to be super safe, wait till someone else does it and reports it is safe. Good luck! 🙂

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n9aNXmaqCdu1IpCfX5Ma3fJcIdWoFIXX/view?usp=drive_link

Have not used this forum as much as I should have 🙂

Hi Bob, welcome to the forum! 😊 It's good to know you want to stay 🙂
You may be sure that you will not get banned from here, and your input will be most welcome at all times 😁.
 

Looking for a new online home, and as most of my game projects are MM related, this looks like being a regular haunt, and honestly a better fit 🙂

Just been banned from FB for impersonating myself, which is insane. And can't be bothered fighting it, as technically my old account is still live, although haven't posted there in years. If anyone knows me from various FB groups, please get in touch 🙂 Included a screenshot from a current project to show I'm a genuine fan.

 

While everyone is worshipping Jesus, Santa or Donald Duck, I decided to work on the memory card in my emulation handheld. I wanted (among many other things) all the Speccy versions of Manic Miner in one directory. So I went to JSWCentral grabbed them all and started renaming them. This took quite a lot of time and I started wondering why there isn't a zip-file with all the versions available on JSWC.
 
So since I've pretty much already made it, would there be legal or ethical problems with publishing such a thing? Would @jetsetdanny appreciate me sending him a zip like that? Did I miss any versions or get some of the years wrong?
 
Here's the list as I have it right now:
1983-Manic Miner (Bug Byte).tzx
1983-Manic Miner (Software Projects).tzx
1985-La miniera 2 (Load 'n' Run [IT], 1985).tzx
1985-Manic Miner 2.tzx
1985-Manic Miner No. 2.tzx
1986-Winer Milly.tzx
1996-Manic Miner III - Tales from a Parallel Universe.tzx
1997-Manic Miner 4 (Original Edition).tzx
1998-Manic Miner 5 - Los peligros del LSD.tzx
1998-Manic Miner 7.tzx
1998-Manic Miner - The Buddha of Suburbia (Original Edition).tzx
1999-Eugene - Lord of the Bathroom.tzx
2000-Manic Miner - 2000.tzx
2000-Manic Miner - The Hobbit (Easy Version).tzx
2000-Manic Miner - The Hobbit (Hard Version).tzx
2002-Manic Miner - comp.sys.sinclair.tzx
2003-Ma Jolie (Original Edition).tzx
2003-Ma Jolite (Original Edition).tzx
2003-Manic Miner 4 - Special Edition.tzx
2003-Manic Miner - The Buddha of Suburbia - Special Edition.tzx
2003-ZX81 Manic Miner.tzx
2004-Manic Miner - Jet Set Willy - Vol. 1.tzx
2004-Manic Miner - Jet Set Willy - Vol. 2.tzx
2004-Manic Miner - Jet Set Willy - Vol. 3.tzx
2004-Manic Miner - Neighbours - Allana Truman (Easy version).tzx
2004-Manic Miner - Neighbours - Allana Truman (Standard version).tzx
2005-Manic Scribbler.tzx
2006-Ma Jolie - Special Edition 2006.tzx
2006-Ma Jolite - Special Edition 2006.tzx
2009-Ma Jolie - Special Edition 2009.tzx
2009-Ma Jolite - Special Edition 2009.tzx
2015-Jet Set Luis.tzx
2016-A Manic Minor's 80's Christmas Shopping Trip.tzx
2018-Manic Miner - Back to the Mine.tzx
2018-Manic Miner - Norman Sword's version.tzx
2018-Manic Mixup.tzx
2018-Thoroughly Modern Willy.tzx
2020-Manic 40 Miner V6c6.tzx
2020-Manic Panic 1.5.tzx
2021-Manic-4-Noobs (M4N).tzx
2021-MANIC-minor (M-m).tzx
2023-Manic Miner 40th Anniversary Tribute (MM40th).tzx
2023-Manic Person (Human Version).tzx
2023-Manic Person (Inhuman Version).tzx
2024-Manic Miner - Deeper and Down (v. 1.2).tzx
2024-Manic Miner - The Deeper Caverns 48K.tzx
2024-Manic Miner - The Lost Levels 128K (v. 1.2).tzx
2024-Manic Miner - The Lost Levels DS (v. 1.1).tzx
2024-Manic Miner - The Lost Levels (v. 1.1).tzx
Since many MM games were developed over several years, I just went with the year of the earliest release.
 

Would add that the layouts aren't just random tweaks but serve a purpose. With cavern 14 the main difficulty for new players is knowing where is safe to stand and wait. Not only are the safe platforms different from the danger ones but different in a speciffic way. The safe one look intact and the danger ones look damaged.

Also, the laser is cavern 19 is a real pain, time wise. It this version it's power is reduced to 25 or 50% (ICRW) plus when the final key is collected the laser vanishes making the run to the transporter easier.

Think most of the layouts also offer an alternative route to completion. So player is not always forced to confront a particularly hard bit.

Not sure how obvious the above will be to others, but they are there and they were planned, in fact the position over every single block was planned and tested.

Would add that the layouts aren't just random tweaks but serve a purpose. With cavern 14 the main difficulty for new players is knowing where is safe to stand and wait. Not only are the safe platforms different from the danger ones but different in a speciffic way. The safe one look intact and the danger ones look damaged.

Also, the laser is cavern 19 is a real pain, time wise. It this version it's power is reduced to 25 or 50% (ICRW) plus when the final key is collected the laser vanishes making the run to the transporter easier.

Think most of the layouts also offer an alternative route to completion. So player is not always forced to confront a particularly hard bit.

Not sure how obvious the above will be to others, but they are there and they were planned, in fact the position over every single block was planned and tested.

Would add that the layouts aren't just random tweaks but serve a purpose. With cavern 14 the main difficulty for new players is knowing where is safe to stand and wait. Not only are the safe platforms different from the danger ones but different in a speciffic way. The safe one look intact and the danger ones look damaged.

Also, the laser is cavern 19 is a real pain, time wise. It this version it's power is reduced to 25 or 50% (ICRW) plus when the final key is collected the laser vanishes making the run to the transporter easier.

Think most of the layouts also offer an alternative route to completion. So player is not always forced to confront a particularly hard bit.

Not sure how obvious the above will be to others, but they are there and they were planned, in fact the position over every single block was planned and tested.

Hi Guys,

There are better versions of MM out there both graphically and technically but M-m certainly was the best I could do at the time with my "skills". The goal was to tweak an easier version of the origional not really create something new. I maybe should have looked at what was already out there but didn't do this to prevent being influenced.

Basically all the changes were added by pokes with a debugger. Changes to larger graphics would have taken too long for me. A mad way of doing things I know and if I were to do it again I would spend time creating a few routines to make this so, so, so much easier.

Air depletion rather than death is a very good idea. But I prefer the idea of makeing M-m so much easier but still retaining the instant-collision-death aspect. Yes it's unfair, yes it's cruel, yes it's frustrating especially for young players but hopefully not enough that they stop playing 🙂 The greater the risk the greater the reward.

Can see a window late 2022, early 2023, were I could start a more unique version. Still set in the same "universe"* only this time I'll be stealling ideas all over the shop.

* Gives me an idea: Willy in a spacesuit avoiding all the aliens from classic Sci-Fi movies sounds like plan for 2024 😄

Would add that the layouts aren't just random tweaks but serve a purpose. With cavern 14 the main difficulty for new players is knowing where is safe to stand and wait. Not only are the safe platforms different from the danger ones but different in a speciffic way. The safe one look intact and the danger ones look damaged.

Also, the laser is cavern 19 is a real pain, time wise. It this version it's power is reduced to 25 or 50% (ICRW) plus when the final key is collected the laser vanishes making the run to the transporter easier.

Think most of the layouts also offer an alternative route to completion. So player is not always forced to confront a particularly hard bit.

Not sure how obvious the above will be to others, but they are there and they were planned, in fact the position over every single block was planned and tested.

Hi Guys,

There are better versions of MM out there both graphically and technically but M-m certainly was the best I could do at the time with my "skills". The goal was to tweak an easier version of the origional not really create something new. I maybe should have looked at what was already out there but didn't do this to prevent being influenced.

Basically all the changes were added by pokes with a debugger. Changes to larger graphics would have taken too long for me. A mad way of doing things I know and if I were to do it again I would spend time creating a few routines to make this so, so, so much easier.

Air depletion rather than death is a very good idea. But I prefer the idea of makeing M-m so much easier but still retaining the instant-collision-death aspect. Yes it's unfair, yes it's cruel, yes it's frustrating especially for young players but hopefully not enough that they stop playing 🙂 The greater the risk the greater the reward.

Can see a window late 2022, early 2023, were I could start a more unique version. Still set in the same "universe"* only this time I'll be stealling ideas all over the shop.

* Gives me an idea: Willy in a spacesuit avoiding all the aliens from classic Sci-Fi movies sounds like plan for 2024 😄

Hi Guys,

There are better versions of MM out there both graphically and technically but M-m certainly was the best I could do at the time with my "skills". The goal was to tweak an easier version of the origional not really create something new. I maybe should have looked at what was already out there but didn't do this to prevent being influenced.

Basically all the changes were added by pokes with a debugger. Changes to larger graphics would have taken too long for me. A mad way of doing things I know and if I were to do it again I would spend time creating a few routines to make this so, so, so much easier.

Air depletion rather than death is a very good idea. But I prefer the idea of makeing M-m so much easier but still retaining the instant-collision-death aspect. Yes it's unfair, yes it's cruel, yes it's frustrating especially for young players but hopefully not enough that they stop playing 🙂 The greater the risk the greater the reward.

Can see a window late 2022, early 2023, were I could start a more unique version. Still set in the same "universe"* only this time I'll be stealling ideas all over the shop.

* Gives me an idea: Willy in a spacesuit avoiding all the aliens from classic Sci-Fi movies sounds like plan for 2024 😄