Manic Miner - Tales From a Parallel Universe

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Designed by the infamous BLOOD! (l.d.tonks@bra0202.wins.icl.co.uk)

(c)1996 Cheese Freak Software



Manic Miner programmed by Matthew Smith

(c)1983 Bug Byte Software



Manic Miner Editor by Rich Swann

Printed by YS, supplied by Henning and typed by BLOOD!



Title Screen produced by BLOOD using a cartoon of Matt Smith I found on

NVG, PaintShop Pro for Windows, Melbourne Draw, and BMP2SPEC (a cunning 

little utility I wrote to port my Windows graphics to the Speccy).





INSTRUCTIONS

It is rumoured that there are an infinite number of parallel universes

where every possibility is played out. Things in these other dimensions

may be very similar to our own reality, but subtly different because of

certain decisions which were taken differently.



Miner Willy is no exception to this rule. Previously, thousands of

Speccy owners had thrilled to his adventures in his battle to escape the

Manic Mining machines, but now Cheese Freak Software brings you the

escapades of ANOTHER Miner Willy from a parallel universe! Just like his

counterpart in this reality, Willy has fallen into a mine packed with

dangers and must escape from 20 lethal caverns in order to locate the

untold treasures of an ancient civilisation. However, in this universe

things are subtly different..... Can Miner Willy emulate the antics of

his trans-dimensional counterpart, or are the Speccy owners of the other

universe doomed to a life with no Jet Set Willy?





GAME CONTROL

Three keys are used to control the game:

Q,E,T,U or O          - Move left

W,R,Y,I or P          - Move right

Shift to space        - Jump



Also :

A to G 		      - Pause

H to ENTER	      - Music On/Off





FOR THE EASILY FOOLED

In case you hadn't noticed, this is a version of Manic Miner which I

have edited with the Manic Miner Editor to produce a very different

game! All 20 screens have been replaced (and the scrolly message!) and

should prove a new challenge for MM addicts. I can't pretend that my

screens are as good as Matt Smith's originals, but I GUARANTEE that

they're much better than the very crap 'Manic Miner 2' snapshot which

has been doing the rounds on the Internet.



I haven't changed many graphics, for two reasons :

1) The graphics were very good anyway

2) I'm crap at drawing

You won't recognise any of the rooms anyway - it's completely different.

They're not all rock hard either - some are easy and some are like The

Warehouse.....Eeek!



I'm not asking for anything for this - it's free, just play it and enjoy

it. And when you've done, why not grab a copy of the editor and have a

go at redesigning it yourself? The editor's free too. I'm just too nice.

I'd like to see any of your creations.....





Regards,

Blood.



p.s. The screens are as follows. If you want to take a peek at 'em, use

the level skip cheat or watch the demonstration......



 1. Slightly to One Side Cavern

 2. Brass Penguins?

 3. Bernard Matthews' Personal Hell

 4. Sealed with a Glasgow Kiss

 5. Future Echoes

 6. Pac Up Your Troubles

 7. Altar of 7th Day Advent Hoppists

 8. Alan Sugar's Take-Over Bid

 9. Perils of a Bad-Hair Day

10. Dr. Jones WOOD Believe This!

11. Revenge of Brian's Phone Bill! (dedicated to Brian 'No Binaries!' Gaff)

12. Alan Sugar must DIE!

13. The 'Difficult to Edit' Cavern

14. Crashing More Often Than a ZX81!

15. Matthew Smith's Unpaid Royalties

16. Zucchini! Or Something.... (dedicated to the hard working YS team)

17. Farmer Barleymow's DDT Store

18. Eye o' Oktup (dedicated to 'dat ole looney...bwah!)

19. Warp Core Breach

20. Join the Jet Set (with apologies to Richard Hallas!)



*============[ l.d.tonks@bra0202.wins.icl.co.uk ]=============* 

|                    The Infamous BLOOD!                      | 

|         The Speccy's not dead - it was just resting!        | 

| Who needs 500Mb of rendered intro when Jetpac fits in 16k?! | 

*===========[ http://spodbox.linux.org.uk/~blood/ ]===========* 



