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Manic Miner
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Leader Or you can download a ZX Spectrum emulator, fire up Manic Miner, and remind yourself that while nobody can predict the future, it's still possible to give it a fighting chance. Twenty-five years ago, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum was launched.
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* Extra rooms which can be loaded into Manic Miner '88. Most of them allow walking off the screen's edges, which may corrupt your Z88's memory, so use them at own risk (and back-up the contents of your Z88 before playing). Manic Miner 3 and Manic Miner 5 seems to be safe.
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For the switch to work correctly, leave the bottom three rows in the 8x8 pixel-pattern for Spare intact, as Manic Miner tries to detect this pattern and laterally invert it when Willy flicks the switch. Note that the switch's colour-attribute does not affect this effect.
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Leader That's a big leap from Manic Miner. In 1984, UK home computer purchasers had a wide range of options. For around £10m you could buy one of the world's fastest computers, the Cray XMP.
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Offset 628 is set at 0 in all Manic Miner rooms. Its counterpart in the runtime work area (see Appendix F) "is used to decide whether or not all the items have yet been collected; just before the items are displayed it is set to zero, then when an uncollected item is displayed, it is changed to the attribute of that item. Thus, after printing items, if this byte is still zero then all items must have been collected." [Garry Lancaster]
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