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I've just added a complete screenshot gallery to the page of "Dr. Jet Set Willy".

Thank you for your reply, Norman Sword - I appreciate it! 🙂

A question to Norman Sword: You have said here, regarding "Manic 40 Miner": "Last version I have assembled is version 6c. No immediate plans to update." Could you please confirm this? The reason I am asking for confirmation is that I want to start "processing" "Manic 40 Miner" in order to create its individual page on JSW Central (so, play it to completion, record a good RZX walkthrough, take screenshots of every room, etc.) and I would not want to do this work in vain if another update is in the pipeline. Furthermore, version 6c which earlier could be downloaded from this post is not there any more. I don't know if you removed it on purpose or it got accidentally deleted. I do have it, as I had downloaded it before it disappeared. However, its current absence makes me wonder if something is going on... Please let us know 🙂

I've just added a complete screenshot gallery to the page of "Spaceman Willy".

I've just added a complete screenshot gallery to the page of "Willy's New Hat".

You are welcome 🙂 . Today I've added a complete screenshot gallery to the page of "Jet-Set Willy in Space". So both pages dedicated to Richard Hallas's games are now complete 🙂 .

JSW Central has just been updated. It was the first update since May, but I do plan to make the updates (small ones) more regular now. The pages of "Jet Set Willy III", "Join the Jet-Set!", "Spaceman Willy", "Willy's New Hat", "Jet-Set Willy in Space" and "Willy does the Great Pyramid!" were modified to include embedded videos from the JSW Central YouTube channel. Furthermore, the spelling of the title of Richard Hallas's first JSW game was changed from "Join The Jet-Set!" to "Join the Jet-Set!" everywhere. This is because I know he prefers this spelling (I do, too), and it appears in this form on the title screen, so it's fully justified. Now that I think about it, I don't know why I used to spell this title capitalising the article. The capitalisation must have been "inherited" from Andrew Broad's list of MM and JSW games, but I'm not sure why he opted for it, since the text file I've got (with a March 1997 time-stamp, so an old one) also has the article spelled with a lower-case "t", and this is also the spelling on Richard's website.

JSW Central YouTube channel has just been updated with six new videos. These are the walkthroughs of: "Jet Set Willy III" "Join the Jet-Set!" "Spaceman Willy" "Willy's New Hat" "Jet-Set Willy in Space" "Willy does the Great Pyramid!" The videos are brand-new, while most of the walkthroughs - with the exception of "Willy does the Great Pyramid!", naturally - are quite old, going back to 2006 in most cases. I watched them to see if they should be improved, but didn't see enough room for improvement to make me re-record them again. Enjoy? 😜

I had some news from him in a PM some time ago that he was into a new hobby (whose nature I will not reveal - perhaps he will once he reappears 😄). So my suspicion would be that it may have got him hooked to the point of not visiting here. Or perhaps it's the holiday season. Or both? Keeping my fingers crossed for his prompt return... 🤗

Thanks for this detail, JianYang! Indeed it doesn't affect my dilemma either way, but it's good that it's mentioned for the record 👍.

Norman Sword, Thank you for your response. I will create an individual web page for "Manic 40 Miner" in the near future, when time permits, after I have completed another update of JSW Central I am currently working on. I have another question: would you say "Manic 40 Miner" fits more in the "Versions and minor mods of the original Manic Miner" section or in the "MM and JSW games using other game engines" section? On second thoughts, contrary to what I said before, I think it belongs in the latter one, as I imagine the code is thoroughly rewritten. I would appreciate your opinion on this. "Jet Set Willy in Altered Reality" and "Manic Panic" are listed in the "Other game engines" section. I have no doubt this is correct. However, your "Manic Miner" version where you can swap between the Bug-Byte and Software Projects variants of the game is listed in the "Versions and minor mods of the original Manic Miner" section. It did give me some headache, because, on the one hand, it plays just like the original variants of MM, it does not aspire to be a new game as such, it only shows your technical mastery in combining both variants in one file and adding some extra elements. On the other hand, you said yourself that its game engine is "a source code rewrite from the first byte to the last", so from that point of view it should definitely be in the "Other game engines" section. If yo have any strong views on this, please let me know - if necessary, I can move your "Manic Miner" version to the "Other games engines" section easily.

Intrigued by your comments, MtM, I fast forwarded DigitalDuck's walkthrough of "Jet Set Willy II+" to the end and saw what happened. I have no reason to think that DigitalDuck's walkthrough used any other version than the Ve22 rv1 that Andy mentioned. He got the "lovely" "Well Done" screen after killing Willy in the Central Cavern (after entering it for a second time, with 330 items collected). I also re-entered the Central Cavern in my walkthrough, but I didn't try to kill myself (=Willy), so didn't get the "Well Done" screen. I didn't know you had to kill Willy to get this final message. I am pretty sure I can still do it - I'll have to dig up my RZX walkthrough where I can roll back to just before the end and try it. I'll do it when time permits and report back.

I'm glad JSW Central has been helpful, MtM! 🙂 This increases my motivation to continue working on it, which is what I've actually been doing over the last few days - details to be announced soon 😎

A walkthrough of "Jet Set Willy 2+" by DigitalDuck, with a joint commentary by himself and RuffledBricks, can be watched here. I believe it would be very interesting for Derrick Rowson to listen to this commentary (and for anyone else interested in this version). Please let him know about it if you know where to find him 😉.

Congratulations on your last two performances, RuffledBricks! 👍 I have watched your initial Jet Set Willy Any% (with two Game Over screens - I opened two drinks following your suggestion 😉). It was nice to hear your commentary interspersed with one by DigitalDuck. I was suprised at the way you did the "Tree Top", especially that it's faster than doing it the way I'm used to (going around and dropping down to the main floor level on the left). I also watched excerpts from DigitalDuck's run of "Jet Set Willy 2+". Again, it was interesting to hear your joint commentary on it. It was particularly interesting to see this relatively new version played and discussed. I will go back and watch more of it if/when time allows, as well as your JSW race against DigitalDuck 🙂 .

Congratulations on winning the WRITETYPER race, RuffledBricks, and on your other performances! 👍 The best of luck for tonight's activities!

MtM, for reference, the thread concerning Norman Sword's "Manic 40 Miner" is here. A couple of questions to Norman Sword: 1. In the beginning of that thread you said, "This is NOT meant to be a playable version. It was just a test routine." Is this still the situation? From a quick look I've had it looks like there's no issue with playing the game. I haven't tried to play it to completion yet, so I don't know about its completability. 2. If I am not mistaken, the latest released version was v. 6c. Is this correct? Are you going to release any more versions in the foreseeable future? 3. I would be happy to add the game to the list of versions of MM on JSW Central, and create an individual page for it along with a description, screenshots, etc. Would you be OK with that? Is the time right for it? (meaning: it's unlikely there will be new versions released any time soon)

A list of games which I classify as "new games" using the original (or somewhat modified) Manic Miner game engine is here. These games (most of them, at least) are remakes of the original MM modified to the extent that I believe warrants classifying them as new games. A list of games which I classify as "Versions and minor mods of the original Manic Miner" is here. Among them is the Perpetual Motion version that JianYang mentioned (thanks for mentioning it!). Some MM games can also be found in the "Games using other engines" section or in the "JSW64" games section. These are games that play like MM, but use a different game engine. You can go from all of these lists to the individual pages created for each game. On all pages there are download options, including the official releases (typically ZIPs with text files included, etc.) and something I call "Direct Game Download", which are game files only in TAP and TZX formats (in most cases). Hence you can download the Perpetual Motion variant and all of the other new games and variants there from their individual pages, without having to extract them from the RZX files. I will refrain from recommending any particular game as I prefer to remain impartial and treasure and recommend them all 🙂 . I'm sure you it won't be difficult to find among them one (or more!) that will be enjoyable to play 🙂 . I am not sure which "mod with 40 levels" you mean. It may be "Manic Pietro" - it has two sets of caverns: 20 brand new ones and 20 original ones, so 40 in total.

I love looking at maps of JSW games, too, because they show clearly what each game is - a mini world of its own, where you can immerse, explore and enjoy 🙂 .

Thanks for fixing these issues, Andy! 👍

This is also truncated: https://jswmm.co.uk/files/file/55-jsw-ve22-rv1/ although I'm not sure if only the end of "December" is missing or something more essential perhaps.

This one: https://jswmm.co.uk/files/file/113-italian-and-spanish-versions-of-manic-miner/ is also truncated.

Andy, This post: https://jswmm.co.uk/files/file/124-manic-miner-a-ten-cavern-challenge/ is still truncated, I believe.

Norman Sword, the update of December 28, 2020 - was there any change in the game file at all? I understand there wasn't, but just want to make sure.

Thanks for these cheats, Andy! 🙂