UncleWan

Really looking forward to seeing the final product. Wish you smooth work!😊

Really looking forward to seeing the final product. Wish you smooth work!😊

Just an open question to the community, there was a Manic Miner-ish game for the C64 called Blagger, I was thinking of porting it to the Spectrum.
There are 30 levels, at the moment 3 of the levels are already converted and part of the Lost levels in WillyWood bonus section.
Is there any interest to do this?
Any feedback or comments are welcomed.
All the best,
B

Yes I am quite happy to do the conversion myself, it was just to see if there was any interested in the finished game once it is done.
Thanks for the offer to playtest it 👍When I am working on the different levels it is very easy to miss something so an extra pair of eyes is appreciated.
All the best,
B

Hi, my reply to your question would definitely be "Yes", with the understanding that you're not asking others to embark on this task (I couldn't right now or in the foreseeable future due to lack of time) but rather checking if others would be interested if you went ahead with the conversion 🙂 .
Yes, it will be nice and definitely appreciated if you do it 🙂 . I will also be happy to playtest as usual before the final release.
And I will second JianYang's affirmation: "There can never be too many Manic Miner levels." 😁

Well, that worked. I suppose these edits will be in the next unstable version, right?

Regardless, thank you so very much for your help. Bless you. 🙏

Thank you so much for your immediate reply and valuable assistance, John - it's greatly appreciated! 🙏 🙂 

Thanks for the tips, but I did not know I needed the SDL1.x compatibility libraries. I'll check it out on my MX Linux laptop later. MX Linux is based on Debian Stable btw.

Well, Linux is my main operating system and the one I wrote JSWED on, so it ought to be possible to build it (I use Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS). So I'd:
Install the SDL 1.x compatibility libraries. In Ubuntu these are the libsdl1.2 and libsdl1.2-dev packages. I think libsdl-image1.2 and libsdl-image1.2-dev may be required as well. Install libxml (packages: libxml2 and libxml2-dev) Downloading the source code for JSWED from the link @jetsetdanny gave. Unpack the archive into a directory. Open a terminal window. Use cd to change to the directory where you unpacked jswed, and type ./configure && make && sudo make install If it built and installed without errors, then typing jswed at a command prompt will launch it. 

Hello and welcome，Cheez！🙂
I'm really glad to know that you became interested in making JSW games because of my game.
I don't use the Linux system, so I'm sorry I can't help you with this matter.Let's see what others have to say.🙂

Slightly late but Welcome @Cheez26

Hello everyone
I am thrilled to announce that, with the collaboration between Daniel and me, my first official JSW game “Plants vs Zombies” is about to be released.
It uses the JSW48 engine and, under Daniel's work, has many enhanced features.🙂
This is a preview, because I still have some final preparations to make. Once I am ready, I will release the game.
Stay tuned!

 
 
 

I sure hope so because I had a one heck of a time trying to compile JSWED for MX Linux and I just hopped back to Mint recently. @UncleWan

Hello and welcome，Cheez！🙂
I'm really glad to know that you became interested in making JSW games because of my game.
I don't use the Linux system, so I'm sorry I can't help you with this matter.Let's see what others have to say.🙂

Hi. My name is Chelsea but you can call me Cheez. What brought me here is @UncleWan's PvZ JSW48 remake and I am curious about how to make kinda games.
If you got any pointers on how to use JSWED on Linux (probably with Wine I would guess), I would appreciate it. Other than that, I hope to be friends with y'all. ❤️

View File Plants vs Zombies
Hello everyone.  
This is my first official JSW48K game, Plants vs Zombies.  
This project is heavily inspired by the classic game Plants vs. Zombies officially developed by PopCap Games, drawing references to its character sprites, visual assets and original soundtracks.  
In April 2025，l started the work of this project.
I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Daniel Gromann for his great support and contributions. He optimized and upgraded the game engine, integrated new background music together with complete audio playback logic, enriched the sprite resource library, designed more than ten extra game scenes, and finished the title screen design and other related content. I apologize if there are any unmentioned contributions.
For more details, please read the 'ReadMe' in the file.🙂
Submitter UncleWan Submitted 05/16/2026 Category Jet Set Willy [Remakes]  

View File Plants vs Zombies
Hello everyone.  
This is my first official JSW48K game, Plants vs Zombies.  
This project is heavily inspired by the classic game Plants vs. Zombies officially developed by PopCap Games, drawing references to its character sprites, visual assets and original soundtracks.  
In April 2025，l started the work of this project.
I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Daniel Gromann for his great support and contributions. He optimized and upgraded the game engine, integrated new background music together with complete audio playback logic, enriched the sprite resource library, designed more than ten extra game scenes, and finished the title screen design and other related content. I apologize if there are any unmentioned contributions.
For more details, please read the 'ReadMe' in the file.🙂
Submitter UncleWan Submitted 05/16/2026 Category Jet Set Willy [Remakes]  

I have gone back to the original project by @fawtytoo as I could not get LOVE2D to work with a web browser using this great implementation of the game

So I have added the record game option (push R) Play back via the (O)ptions Menu that also lets you select lives and level. Also has high score per level (S) on title screen 

Pressing U in game saves progress. L on Title to select on 5 save slots

Also runs on touch screen(Only test Android)

https://monkeyx.net/

Hello everyone
I am thrilled to announce that, with the collaboration between Daniel and me, my first official JSW game “Plants vs Zombies” is about to be released.
It uses the JSW48 engine and, under Daniel's work, has many enhanced features.🙂
This is a preview, because I still have some final preparations to make. Once I am ready, I will release the game.
Stay tuned!

 
 
 

Hello everyone
I am thrilled to announce that, with the collaboration between Daniel and me, my first official JSW game “Plants vs Zombies” is about to be released.
It uses the JSW48 engine and, under Daniel's work, has many enhanced features.🙂
This is a preview, because I still have some final preparations to make. Once I am ready, I will release the game.
Stay tuned!

 
 
 

Hello everyone
I am thrilled to announce that, with the collaboration between Daniel and me, my first official JSW game “Plants vs Zombies” is about to be released.
It uses the JSW48 engine and, under Daniel's work, has many enhanced features.🙂
This is a preview, because I still have some final preparations to make. Once I am ready, I will release the game.
Stay tuned!

 
 
 

Hello and welcome， Maus！
Many people focus on the ZX Spectrum, but for me, I'm also interested in the modern versions 🙂
I can't access YouTube.So, unfortunately I don't know how your project is going.But I hope you can complete this remake!😄
 
 

A recent Windows 11 update - I believe it's the "2026-03 Update (KB5086672) (26200.8117)" to be precise - makes JSWED (all versions, I believe, I've checked the 2.3.7 and the 2.2.9 ones) fail to launch. When you try to launch the program, you get this error message:

I contacted John Elliott about it and he very kindly responded quickly, explaining that _fmode_dll appears to be part of the Microsoft CRT library and that looking at the dependencies of JSWED, this seems to refer to CRTDLL.DLL in particular.
John told me that the discussion at this link: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/discussions/windowsinsiderprogram/windows-11-build-26200-8116-broke-system-dll-crtdll-dll/4508785 seems to suggest that retrieving an earlier version of CRTDLL.DLL might help.   I have copied the CRTDLL.DLL file from an old laptop running on Windows 10 and I substituted with it the current file of the same name in the folders: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ and C:\Windows\WinSxS\x86_microsoft-windows-crtdll_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.26100.1_none_82a9fe5e3ade4a14\.   You need to substitute the current file in the C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ or else JSWED won't launch. I'm not sure about the one in the C:\Windows\WinSxS\x86_microsoft-windows-crtdll_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.26100.1_none_82a9fe5e3ade4a14\ folder (I first substituted the CRTDLL.DLL file in this particular folder and JSWED still wouldn't launch. It only started working after I substituted the file in C:\Windows\SysWOW64\, so I can say with a 100% certainty that this latter substitution is critical; I wouldn't know about the former).   If anyone faces the same problem, the CRTDLL.DLL file from my old Windows 10 laptop that has worked for me is attached to this message. In order to make the swap, you will need to take ownership of the files (and perhaps also folder/s) in question from TrustedInstaller. This link explains how to do it: https://www.google.com/search?q=you+require+permission+from+trustedinstaller+to+make+changes+to+this+file+windows+11&sca_esv=e926bb0053f95734&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS820US820&sxsrf=ANbL-n6csLu1fdWc35Al3F1HC01pQzzddw%3A1776297342361&ei=fiXgacDYFdOqwbkPhbC32A0&biw=1920&bih=945&oq=you+require+permission+from+trustedinstaller+to+make+changes+to+this+file&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiSXlvdSByZXF1aXJlIHBlcm1pc3Npb24gZnJvbSB0cnVzdGVkaW5zdGFsbGVyIHRvIG1ha2UgY2hhbmdlcyB0byB0aGlzIGZpbGUqAggCMgoQABhHGNYEGLADMgoQABhHGNYEGLADMgoQABhHGNYEGLADMgoQABhHGNYEGLADMgoQABhHGNYEGLADMgoQABhHGNYEGLADMgoQABhHGNYEGLADMgoQABhHGNYEGLADMg0QABiABBiKBRhDGLADSOYSUABYAHABeAGQAQCYAQCgAQCqAQC4AQPIAQCYAgGgAgWYAwCIBgGQBgmSBwExoAcAsgcAuAcAwgcDMi0xyAcEgAgB&sclient=gws-wiz-serp .   Good luck and please let me know if this was helpful if you run into the same problem! 🙂    crtdll.dll

UncleWan, it's great to hear about this new game 🙂 . You posted your message on April 1st (I've only read it a moment ago), I hope it wasn't an April Fool's Day joke 🤣 .

It looks good! I'm looking forward to it!