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Thanks ANdy, I think i'll leave things as they are then, at least until Ian gets a chance to look at it as he had quite a lot of input into the game, if the credits for his work need amending in any way or if Richard needs me to change anything then i will amend as necessary. If there are no other changes then i will edit it if/when i post it on any other sites

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I've just watched the end sequence after completing the game (I cheated and did POKE 34270, 255 so I only had to collect the Bathroom tap).

Very nice effect after the clock reaches midnight! Just one little suggestion, if you're open to a final tweak - you could colour the top half of the 'victim' Cyan in this instance, to match their previous appearance? (I hope that doesn't provide too much of a spoiler?). It's no biggie though.

 

Also, the Screen Flash effect looks good when it kicks in as Willy collects the last item.  I wonder if it would be worth mentioning this in the readme, in a cryptic way?  Something along the lines of "a special effect that is implemented via a bit of code which Matthew Smith devised for Manic Miner, and which remained in place (still functioning but unused) in the original JSW code".

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Oh, one other thing that I forgot to ask:

 

Regarding 'Norman Sword's credit, did anybody establish for definite that (as we suspect) he is actually Derrick P Rowson (author of JSW2)?

I had my suspicions when referred to Matthew Smith almost like he knew him personally, there seems to be more than the occasional 'first name terms' hint .. if you get what i mean .. and of course if you're any good at anagrams...

he never did get back to me by the way 

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Thanks for taking the time to read through all the blurb Ian, looks like there's quite a few more corrections to be made .. including my dodgy spelling .. that happened because i copied it from a Word doc to a plain text and then added that bit on afterwards putting my trust in my own spelling ability...  :blink:

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One more tiny suggestion for a tweak to the game file - in the scrolling message on the Title Screen, the use of the hyphen in the word 'Jet-Set' is inconsistent with the lettering on the Title Screen, and general usage.

 

I believe that for consistency, it would be best to use 'Jet Set' (with a space character replacing the hyphen).

 

Incidentally Andy, I would make the same recommendation for the banner at the top of this website (in that case, 'Jet Set' instead of 'JetSet'), although that's probably too much of a faff to change, so it's probably not worth worrying about too much. :)

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