jetsetdanny

Check out Speccy Screenshot Maps. There are links there to ZX Screen Snapper and ZX Maps Creator, free (I believe) utilities with which the author of the site, Pavero, has made over 1100 maps of Spectrum games so far (!). I haven't used these utilities myself yet, but I imagine they must be good. I've only made one or two screenshot-based maps up till now and I did it as suggested above (using a massive blank canvas size and then pasting and moving each image into its proper place, in Photoshop, then resizing at the end). It worked out well. However, if I had to make a lot of maps, I would look for specialised software.

Dumb Waiter, you must be JammaJup of the Purple Unicorn fame, aren't you? Before going to the proper topic of this thread, let me take this opportunity to tell you that I enjoyed both (or all five) of your games very much :) . As you may know, I recorded their RZX walkthroughs for the RZX Archive, and an hour ago I posted a review of Terry the Turtle in the Manic Miner & Jet Set Willy Yahoo! Group (message 6797). I do hope you will make more JSW games in the future! :) Could you please tell me how you prefer to be credited whenever your games are mentioned? Is "Jammajup, Purple Unicorn Software" OK? If so, should it be spelled Jammajup, or perhaps JammaJup, or JAMMAJUP? Or differently still, with your real name perhaps? I would be grateful for your guidance on this. Now, the "Final Edition" of Steve Worek's Jet Set Emily: Baby on the Go, which I prepared (with his consent) back in 2006, is probably the only JSW remake for the Spectrum (at least was at the time of its release) which features a working attract mode. I remember I worked hard to adjust the rooms (swapping them around) in order to achieve this (to make sure Willy didn't get killed during the preview of the rooms). There turned out to be a problem with the Softricks' code for attract mode used in conjunction with John Elliott's teleporter extension, leading to a semi-critical bug in the game (which became impossible to complete if the attract mode was run, because it turned off the teleportation needed to get to a room with two items). Andrew Broad kindly helped me solve the problem. He offered technical explanation for what happened. I am not sure if it can be helpful for this discussion, but just in case, check out messages 6035, 6039 and 6044 in the MM & JSW Yahoo! Group.

Thank you for your approval and editing :). Could you please capitalise the "SW" in the topic (to make it JSW Central)?

Thank you for the welcome :) . I have just posted a message in the Site Links section with an announcement of JSW Central. I have also posted a message on the Yahoo! MM/JSW Group to make the people there aware of the existence of this site. Surprisingly, it has not been mentioned over there before.

JSW Central (www.jswcentral.org) is a brand-new website (launched 1 March 2015) dedicated exclusively to games for the ZX Spectrum using Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy game engines. Its most important feature is a complete list of gamma-released games (based on the work of Dr. Andrew Broad and sort of picking up from where he left off in May 2009, with some minor changes to the methodology). I hope to develop the website gradually, creating individual pages for each gamma-released game, with screenshots, etc., and adding other resources. I am currently working on a chronology of the development of MM/JSW games. I have just added a link to this forum and, once again, I am thrilled to have found you online! It is great that there are still some people around interested in those timeless classics :-). Please let me know if there are any games that are missing from the list on JSW Central (please see the Contact section for my e-mail address). Also, I will appreciate any other comments and feedback on JSW Central's content. Daniel

Hello Everyone, First of all, it is thrilling to find this community on the Web! I think this site was down at some point a week or two ago, but when I revisited it a few minutes ago and saw it worked, I joined immediately! I have just launched a new MM/JSW website at www.jswcentral.org. An updated list of MM and JSW games (using the list created by Andrew Broad, which was last updated in May 2009) is there. I plan to keep it up to date, so if anything is missing, please let me know (see Contact section for e-mail address). Also, I will appreciate any other comments and feedback on JSW Central's content. I will add a link to this community on my website before the weekend is over. Daniel