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                           By Andy Noble 2004



۲LEGAL BIT:

This game is released as FREEWARE and I except no responsibility for any
damage caused by using this programme.
The original game is (C) 1983 BUG-BYTE Ltd and SOFTWARE PROJECTS Ltd.
		     (C) 1997 Alchemist Research.

Please copy on to anybody you know providing you do not charge for the
privalage and this file accompanies the game.

If you intend to use this game on a magazine cover disk or campilation CD,
all I ask is for you to send me a copy of the magazine/CD.

۲INFO:

Right, lets get something straight. If you are looking for Manic Miner 97, 
you are looking in the wrong place. You will not get any rendered intros, 
rendered Willy's (Oo! Er!) or rendered anything. I have made the game in 
it's original style. I like to think of it as a version of the game that 
would have appeared in 1984 if such things as "256 colour displays" where 
about. I am sick of downloading a game off the net, only to see some rendered
intro and no game. Lets get back to basics. Lets play some good, old 
fashioned, playable games.

"Why have I done a PC version when the emulated version is perfect ?"
The answer is this. I just wanted to. I like to mess around with programming. 
I am not very good at it, but I enjoy it. It's as simple as that.

۲THE GAME:

Miner Willy, while prospecting down Surbiton way, stumbles upon an
ancient, long forgotten mine-shaft. On further exploration, he finds
evidence of a lost civilisation far superior to our own, which used
automatons to dig deep into the Earth's core to supply the essential raw
materials for their advanced industry. After centuries of peace and
prosperity, the civilisation was torn apart by war, and lapsed into a long
dark age, abandoning their industry and machines. Nobody, however,
thought to tell the mine robots to stop working, and through countless
aeons they had steadly accumulated a hugh stockpile of valuable metals
and minerals, and Miner Willy realises that he now has the opportunity to
make his fortune by finding the underground store. Can YOU take the
challange and guide Willy through the underground caverns to the 
surface and riches. In order to move to the next chamber, you must 
collect all the flashing keys in the room while avoiding nasties like
POISONUS PANSIES and SPIDERS and SLIME and worst of all, MANIC MINING
ROBOTS. When you have all the keys, you can enter the portal which will
now be flashing. The game ends when you have been "got" or fallen
heavily three times.

NOTE: This was taken from the original BUG-BYTE inlay. I have never
seen any POISONUS PANSIES, SPIDERS or SLIME anywhere in the game.

۲INSTRUCTIONS:

For those of you who have never played Manic Miner before,
all you have to do is collect X number of objects from each 
screen to open the exit before your air runs out. 
Sounds easy ? Just give it a try.

From the loading screen press any key to get to the main title.

On the title screen:
F1           ABOUT and game SPEED / MUSIC
ENTER/RETURN Start Game.

(If you leave the keyboard alone the game will go into demo mode.)

In Game:
Q E T U O = Left
W R Y I P = Right
Z X C V B N M , . / SPACE = Jump
A S D F G = Pause
H J K L   = Music toggle

CTRL+1-6  = Change Game Speed during Game (not permanently). 1=Fast/6=Slow

ESCAPE    = at any time will take you back to the title screen or windows.

۲SOUND SUPPORT:

Manic Miner uses the excellent FMOD library.

There are options in the JSW.INI to allow you to change the sample
frequency in the unlikley event you have troube with the sound.

۲FINAL WORDS:

I hope you enjoy the game and I hope it brings back some happy and 
frustrating memories. If it is popular, even if it's not, I am planning on 
doing Jet Set Willy. Well, you can't have one without the other I say.

Oh, by the way, there is a CHEAT you know.

۲CREDITS:

Programming, Graphics, Sound  .. Andy Noble
Music Arranging + Docs        .. Matt Simmonds
Testing + Mac Port            .. John Dow

Allegro Library               .. Shaun Hargreves
FMOD Library                  .. Firelight Technologies
Help with the Bad Guys        .. Tyrone L. Cartwright

۲HISTORY:

V0.72
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First release.

V0.79
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Fixed bug in THE BANK. Thanks Francisco Figueiredo

۲RESOURCES:

World Of Spectrum
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/

Newsgroup:
comp.sys.sinclair
