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| From: indi (all posts)
Date: 2000-08-10
Subject: Re: Manic Miner Re: Flamingo release
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On Tue, 8 Aug 2000 09:09:28 +0200, you wrote:
>Hello Mike!
>
>On 6 Aug 00, at 21:20, Mike Dailly wrote:
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>> Whats the screen draw on/off used in Manic Minor????
>
>Ah, quite easy... I was just lazy emulating this feature, that is why
>this game did not work upto now.
>The problem is:
>TED turns on/off screen at the bottom line of a screen (I don't know
>the exact line, but it could be cheated in some ways by writing to
>the $FF1D).
>I emulated the possibility of in-screen turning on/off, and Manic
>Miner (Minor??) confused all of the emulators including mine by
>switching the screen off then on again on the same screen. ($FF06,
>4th bit.) This came from a mistake of the game coder. (Wrong AND
>used value used.)
So, were you just not seeing the screen?
Minus4 seems to display it okay... but the colours on level 1 with the moving platform are black on black... ECM mode I'd guess... but Genetic Fault works okay... happen to know what Im missing?
I'd love to get this one into my JAVA emu for web play :-)
Mike
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