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	Manic Miner for Windows
		Manic Miner (the original or my version) is no match for Quake, you cannot meet Lara Croft there, and it doesn't have Napalm Strikes, as Worms 2 has.
		Believe it or not, I started working on my remake of Manic Miner on 1992 (which means it took me 7 years!!!) It was right after I had the pleasure of playing it on my PC using the PJPP emulator program.
		Note that the walkthrough video is of the original Manic Miner game (but the Windows version is so accurate that if you do the same, you'll get the same), and also that the video is quite long - a little over 23 minutes.
	www.xmixdrix.com /manicminer (1375 words)

	Miner Willy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Miner Willy wears a top-hat in Jet Set Willy
		Miner Willy is the hero of a series of platform games for the ZX Spectrum home computer written by Matthew Smith in the 1980s.
		The series started with Manic Miner and was followed up with Jet Set Willy and Jet Set Willy II.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Miner_Willy (99 words)

	Willy's Miner Nightmare (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Obviously, news that a high-profile character like Willy is about to desert all he has worked for to retire back to the country life, has stirred up rather a lot of public interest.
		With this in mind, Willy grabs his miners cap and decides to take an alternative route back to the countryside, utilising the mansions many back passages (oo-er!) and secret entrances.
		Willys Miner Nightmare was written using The Games Factory by Europress, with the graphical assistance of Paint Shop Pro, and The Spectrum Graphics Editor by Richard Jordan.
	www.spacetimegames.co.uk /willy.htm (240 words)

	Manic Miner Room-Format
		Manic Miner: The Buddha of Suburbia, "The BUDDHA OF SUBURBIA : suburbs");
		Willy's start-position in a Manic Miner room), where the seven most significant bits at Offset 621 are fixed (so it's always 92 or 93 in denary, depending on whether the least significant bit is 0 or 1), and there are variables:
		Garry Lancaster was working on a Z88 conversion of Manic Miner, he discovered some details of how the game engine copies the room-data to buffers at runtime and updates these data during play, and he was kind enough to share this information with me. I'll let his own words tell the story...
	www.icemark.com /dataformats/manic/mmformat.htm (8721 words)

	PHONE-SOFT INTERNET DIRECTORY INTERNATIONAL:MINER WILLY
		Dextrose - Manic Miner - Remake of Manic Miner for the N64.
		Jet-Set Willy for the Atari ST - Atari ST version of Jet-Set Willy, by Paul Taylor and Carl Whitwell.
		Manic Miner '88 - Garry Lancaster's conversion to the Z88.
	www.phone-soft.org /layout-3/cyber-world/od813i.htm (715 words)

	CRASH 98 - Manic Miner (SAM)
		Manic Miner’s so old it was probably played by primitive man in his mud hut — it hasn’t even been reviewed in the hallowed pages of CRASH.
		Miner Willy’s in the catacombs below Surbiton (as dug by Tom and Barbara Good while chasing their goat one Sunday afternoon) and can’t go back the way he came.
		But there’s a light at the end of the proverbial tunnel (the 3:58pm London to Birmingham, methinks): if Willy can conquer the 60 caves (three sets of 20) that stand in his way, peaceful Surbiton life will be his once more.
	www.crashonline.org.uk /98/manicminer.htm (596 words)

	Jet-Set Willy II Room Format v0.7
		When Willy reaches particular coordinates, the central section of the room takes off and Willy is transported to the room above.
		If Willy hits it and the game is won, then move him to room 133 (Central Cavern).
		If Willy is standing on a right-moving conveyor (ie, the bed) then start him running to the right.
	www.seasip.demon.co.uk /Jsw/jsw2room.html (2014 words)

	Directory - Games: Video Games: Platform: Miner Willy Games
		The Miner Willy series started with Manic Miner and was followed up with Jet Set Willy and Jet Set Willy II.
		Miner Willy · cached · Includes a brief description and screenshots.
		Technical information for the Miner Willy series · cached · Disassemblies and room formats for Manic Miner and both versions of Jet Set Willy.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=399827 (158 words)

	Manic Miner Room Format
		Unlike in Jet Set Willy, all horizontal guardians in a room have to have the same graphic (guardian graphics are defined separately within the room data).
		Unlike in Jet Set Willy, all vertical guardians in a room have to have the same graphic (guardian graphics are defined separately within the room data).
		Garry Lancaster was working on a Z88 conversion of Manic Miner, he discovered some details of how the game engine copies the room data to buffers at runtime and updates this data during play, and he was kind enough to share this information with me. I'll let his own words tell the story...
	www.icemark.com /dataformats/manic/mmformat_03.htm (8244 words)

	Jet Set Willy II: The Map
		The Overview shows all the rooms at half size, with diagonal lines and a red floor to mimic the layout of the Cartography Room.
		There is a recommended route, though in practice the game is too difficult to complete without using an emulator, or, unsatisfactorily, some form of cheating.
		Other information about Jet Set Willy can be found via the Open Directory Project.
	www.jdawiseman.com /papers/games/jsw2/jsw2-index.html (573 words)

	Broadsoft (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Manic Miner 4 is written for advanced Manic Miner players, and the screens are intended to be outstandingly difficult, as a challenge to the experts.
		Manic Miner 2 and Manic Miner 3 were a bit of a let-down in that the screens just looked like the original caverns gone wrong, with some of the platforms hacked up a bit but the graphics, positions of the nasties etc. unmodified.
		In MM:Hobbit, Miner Willy plays Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit who is persuaded by Gandalf the wizard to go on an adventure with a group of dwarves to win back the treasure stolen from them by Smaug the dragon.
	jswremakes.emuunlim.com /Authors/Broadsoft.htm (1229 words)

	ROMs: Manic Miner '88 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		If anyone has never played the Speccy version (surely not!), the aim of the game is simple: collect all the flashing objects (usually keys) on the screen, and then make your way to the flashing exit before your air supply runs out.
		Manic Miner 3 and Manic Miner 5 appear to stick to the rules properly, and so should be safe to use without risk of side-effects.
		Manic Miner Room Format document, which was of enormous help to me when converting the game from the Spectrum.
	www.zxplus3e.plus.com /z88forever/rom-manicminer.html (311 words)

	Directory - Games: Video Games: Platform: Miner Willy Games: Manic Miner
		Miner Willy must explore the twenty caverns before his air supply is exhausted.
		Manic Miner Technologies · history · cached · Includes tools, articles, art, a history, maps, and sound.
		Manic Miner (SAM) · cached · Manic Miner (SAM version) review, by Jon Pillar from Your Sinclair.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=400208 (171 words)

	Directory - Games: Video Games: Platform: Miner Willy Games: Manic Miner: Freeware
		Manic Miner for Windows 95 · cached · Rewrite of the original, at three times the resolution, that works on Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT.
		Manic Miner: comp.sys.sinclair · cached · A rejig of Mathew Smith's all-time classic based around themes and folklore that have arisen on the comp.sys.sinclair newsgroup.
		Manic Miner for Cybiko Xtreme · cached · A work-in-progress to port Manic Miner to the Cybiko Xtreme handheld.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=961946 (155 words)

	Sinclair User 33 - Hit Squad
		He does not like giving away many of his programming secrets, but it will be a surprise to some to learn that the music, which plays continuously throughout the game, does not use an interrupt.
		Rumours abound that the next game is Willy Meets the Taxman with Willy forced to pay up for his Jet Set Willy lifestyle.
		Matthew wants to have a hardware-based game, involving some sort of extra ROM chip which could be used for programming applications as well as forming an integral part of the new game.
	www.sincuser.f9.co.uk /033/htsquad.htm (2462 words)

	Your Spectrum 04 - Jet Set Willy
		The story line is as weak as ever - some nonsense about Willy having thrown a party and the guests having left lots of champagne glasses strewn about his mansion (altered slightly in the production version).
		It's worthwhile just having a wander around to get a feel for the way Miner Willy handles; for example, you can get Willy to hang precariously to a surface by what looks like a single pixel before making that important leap - and in some cases that's exactly what you'll have to do.
		Most of the objects cached in Jet Set Willy are attainable, but there are some which, even when working from carefully scaled maps of each room, seem impossible to retrieve without sacrificing a life.
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~jg27paw4/yr04/yr04_60.htm (2908 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Willy was made by a man with the name
		Willy showed first up in the game "Manic Miner" and later in the sequel "Jet Set Willy".
		The games came first out on the computer "Sinclair ZX Spectrum" and later it spread to many other formats.
	victorian.fortunecity.com /canal/804/willyEng.htm (89 words)

	Manic Miner/Jet Set Willy
		This page is dedicated to the classic Spectrum platform-games Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy, originally written by Matthew Smith.
		Willy's Universe: A JSW emulator for the PC (David Brooks) (PC download)
		Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy (founded by Yours Truly!)
	www.geocities.com /andrewbroad/spectrum/willy (391 words)

	Directory - Games: Video Games: Platform: Miner Willy Games: Jet Set Willy Series: Freeware (Site not responding. Last check: )
		After his success in Manic Miner, Miner Willy bought a big house and became Jet Set Willy.
		With details of some improvements to the basic engine, links to some some Perl utilities, and four new games: The Fourth Remix; Willy the Hacker; Willy takes a Trip; and ZX Willy the Bug Slayer.
		A variant of Jet Set Willy for the PC by Tero Heikkinen, requires a machine no slower than 166MHz.
	www.deerlakesearch.com /default?p=942497 (245 words)

	Miner Willy\
		Everything Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy related can be found on this site with a vast amount of links to various ongoing conversions and game sites.
		Liverpool-based development studio, Jester Interactive has just informed us that it has snapped up the rights to a bunch of ZX Spectrum classics including Graft Gold's Paradroid and the now legendary father of platform gaming, Jet Set Willy with a view to re-working them for the booming handheld market.
		"Our MD has always been in to Jet Set Willy and Manic Miner," Jester's marketing director Clark Evans told PC Zone this afternoon, "and what spurred us on was when we acquired the rights to Graft Gold and their back catalogue of games."
	minerwilly.com (234 words)

	Sinclair User 21 - Software Scene
		MUTANT telephones, killer penguins and caverns of ice are all part of Manic Miner for the 48K Spectrum.
		The game includes some impressive graphics routines which you will encounter when you take your player-character, Willy the miner, through a series of caverns inhabited by all kinds of strange creatures.
		To exit from a cavern you have to pick up a series of keys hung from various parts of the ceiling or from bushes which are deadly if you touch them.
	www.sincuser.f9.co.uk /021/softwre.htm (4161 words)

	Jet Set Willy in Java (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Miner Willy, after his fortunate discovery in Surbiton, has hundreds of new found friends who REALLY know how to enjoy themselves at a party.
		After a particularly boisterous thrash his housekeeper puts her foot down - Maria won't let him into his bedroom untill ALL the discarded glasses and bottles have been cleared away.
		This is a rewrite of the legendary Jet Set Willy in Java, using the data from the original game to construct the rooms and sprites.
	www.mjwilson.demon.co.uk /jsw.html (193 words)

	Video Game Sites: Video Games : Platform : Miner Willy Games Cheats Codes, Tips, & News
		We will be adding more code and cheat sites for Video Games : Platform : Miner Willy Games as they become available.
		Jet Set Willy & Manic Miner Yahoo Webring - Web ring for the Miner Willy series.
		Manic Miner World - Includes the text of an interview with Matthew Smith, and some of the history of the games.
	www.searchquestions.com /vg_pages/Video_Games/Platform/Miner_Willy_Games (255 words)

	Your Spectrum 18 - Jet Set Willy 2
		Well, someone has, 'cos Miner Willy's back in the major follow-up to his first appearance as a jet setter.
		Inside the big Willy is a hidden maze that you're gonna have to suss out before you can collect the object in his eye.
		Jet Set Willy II started life on the Amstrad as a conversion from the original JSW.
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~jg27paw4/yr18/yr18_22.htm (2530 words)

	Sinclair ZX Spectrum software
		Manic Miner, in particular, was a stunningly good quality game for its day, and took the world by storm; it created a huge demand for a sequel, which eventually arrived in the form of Jet-Set Willy (JSW).
		The launch of Jet-Set Willy II really drew the saga to a close, as it was merely an upgraded version of the previous game, with a larger map.
		The new version was written by a different author (Matthew Smith having apparently vanished off the face of the earth), and the magic had been lost; the new game didn't play as well as the old, and the new rooms seemed dull by comparison with the originals.
	www.hallas.demon.co.uk /Software/spectrum.htm (3117 words)

	Manic Miner Technologies (Site not responding. Last check: )
		We at Miner Tech believe that playing Manic Miner is the only way to get them horny chicks...
		It's supposed to be a much improved version of Manic Miner taking advantage of the C64's power.
		Anyways, Manic Miner is way better than Quake III, because Manic Miner's got amoebas and stuff...
	jswremakes.emuunlim.com /mmt.htm (313 words)

	Manic Miner 2 Translation (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Carl Murray has done a version of Manic Miner 2 in which the room names are translated from German to English (which you can download by clicking here).
		He got a German friend to tell him what the names meant, but the German's English was a bit shaky and he couldn't translate everything.
		I've always thought of this screen as Horten's version of that cavern, where Horten is presumably one of the authors of MM2 (along with Dagobert and possibly Balduin - it is mere speculation on my part that any of the three are the authors).
	www.cs.man.ac.uk /~broada/spectrum/willy/mm2tr.html (680 words)

	JetSet Miner Willy PC
		An update of the classic ZX Spectrum game 'Jetset Willy' the game plays exactly the same as the original, but much has been added.
		Many will be familiar with the Mario style map on which you negotiate the levels, this is in fact a clever front end to loading the 'tape files'.
		Good players will soon notice the new additions such as Manic Miner 7 which soon starts to add new features like moving platforms, imploding rooms, boss's etc...
	www.cdworld.co.uk /craig/jsmw.html (209 words)

	Manic Miner: comp.sys.sinclair. by Fishyfish
		Andrew Broad, without who's Manic Miner Screen Editor and Manic Miner Room Format website, this project wouldn't have got very far.
		The various good eggs on comp.sys.sinclair on whom this version of Manic Miner is based.
		Use the email address as shown at the bottom of the page and entitle the message "Manic Miner CSS scores".
	www.fishyfish.net /manic (281 words)

	Fat Freddy's Cat #5 - The Quirkafleeg
		Also on this page you'll find that by clicking the pictures you can download my favourite versions of JetSet Willy: First up is the purified April Showers mix, cleaned out by myself and Darren Salt, who also wrote the brilliant RiscOS version of JetSet Willy.
		JetSet Willy II is my favourite game of ever - unmodified as well, but with a list of pokes that you will need!
		Finally, the gaping pit picture is a modified JSW1 with the garbage rooms edited into proper rooms, and tucked away.
	www.russandem.co.uk /quirk (563 words)

	Jet Set Willy & Manic Miner
		Software, documentation, room maps, game snapshots, room editors for Spectrum, BBC and RISC OS versions of Jet Set Willy.
		The adventures of Miner Willy, as a blog.
		A QuickTime movie of Jet Set Willy being played from start to finish.
	i.webring.com /hub?ring=jetsetwillymanic (81 words)

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