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Acorn V1.09
Written by Darren Salt, 1997-9
Based on source for Manic Miner PC by Andy Noble
Music by Matt Simmonds
TimPlayer and 16-bit sound code by André Timmermans
Manic Miner will run on any Risc PC or Arc (except for those still(!) with
1MB), though may be slow on anything less than ARM3. It uses either mode 13
(320x256) or mode 49 (320x480).
Boring legal bit
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This game is FREEWARE.
The original game is © 1983 BUG-BYTE Ltd and SOFTWARE PROJECTS Ltd.
You are free to copy this program and its associated files, provided that
they remain intact and that you do not charge for the privilege, except to
cover materials/duplication costs (ie. NO PROFIT).
Permission must, however, be obtained if you wish to use this game on a cover
disk or CD.
This program is supplied "as is"; I cannot accept responsibility for any
problems which it may cause.
Instructions
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For those of you who have never played Manic Miner before, all you have to do
is collect the keys to open the exit, which will then start pulsing, then to
reach that exit before your air runs out. Sounds easy? Just give it a try...
Manic Miner installs itself on the icon bar. You can click Select to play, or
Adjust to set the options (which are the same as on the options page in the
game). There's the obligatory menu, with these options and 'Quit'.
From the loading screen (recognise it?) press any key to get to the title
screen.
On the title screen:
F1 The options page: ABOUT and game SPEED, LEVELS, MUSIC, MODE setup.
RETURN Start the game.
F12 Return to the desktop.
(If you leave the keyboard alone, the game will go into demo mode.)
In Game:
Left Q E T U O [
Right W R Y I P ]
Jump Shift Z X C V B N M , . / Shift Space
(and '\' if it's to the left of Z)
Pause A S D F G
Music toggle H J K L
Abandon game Escape
Desktop F12
(When you click Select on the Manic Miner icon or select "Resume", the game
will resume in paused mode.)
One joystick (in port 0) is supported via Joystick_Read.
Volume control: keypad + and -.
Oh, BTW, there's a cheat mode or two...
Sound support
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The music is based on the original Manic Miner and has some of the same
qualities ;-) and you even get to hear the original, er, collection of beeps.
The sound effects are similar to the original Spectrum version. The samples
are all 8 bit due to their MMPC origins; mm-samp8 uses VIDC encoding and
mm-samp16 uses linear signed.
Default settings
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Some of these depend on your machine specification. Arcs use mode 13 and
low-quality sound, with ARM2 and ARM250-based machines having the music
switched off; Risc PCs use mode 49 and medium quality sound with
interpolation, or high if StrongARMed.
Compatibility
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Any RISC OS machine. The game will run slowly on ARM2 or ARM250 machines if
music is enabled; it may if disabled.
The universal !Boot is preferred; Manic Miner will create a choices file in
here if possible.
If you do not have a Choices directory (or the appropriate system variables
aren't set) then Manic Miner will use !Manic.Choices (which must not be
distributed). If it was run from an archive, then it *will* attempt to write
to the archive.
When you quit Manic Miner, it will store the high score in its choices file.
Errors indicating "read only" are ignored.
Contact
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This version: ds@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk
http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/
TimPlayer: Andre.Timmermans@swn.sni.be
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/4471/
Manic Miner PC: andy@andyn.demon.co.uk
http://www.andyn.demon.co.uk/