JSW Central - a website dedicated to Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy games for the ZX Spectrum

[Einar Saukas]

Real life has been relatively kind in that I have been able to start work on the list already, and, hopefully, it will be ready by the end of the month.

Great! Thank you!

One question though:

On WoS several games by The DrUnKeN mAsTeR!!! have an adult status. "Allow adult search results (opt-in)" must be turned on through the Infoseek Config facility to view the game or find it using Sinclair Infoseek. An example of such a game is Jet Set Willy: The DrUnKeN mAsTeR!!!, which is here on WoS and here on SC.

Its SC page is missing the downloads which WoS is offering (as well as e.g. title-screen and in-game screenshots). I am pretty sure that this doesn't have anything to do with someone asking for the files to be taken down, but rather with the game's adult status on WoS. IIRC, it's the same with the other games by The DrUnKeN mAsTeR!!! which have this particular status on WoS.

My question is: Is there any equivalent of 'Adult status' on SC? Is it that I'm not seeing the download files because of some setting I don't have turned on, or is it just that the files are really missing from SC?

All files are indexed in ZXDB, but SC disables searches, screenshots and download files for any title marked as "x-rated".

However all this information can be seen at ZXInfo. Just follow the link you will find near the bottom of every game page at SC.

[jetsetdanny]

Thanks, guys!

This probably means that it doesn't make sense for me to provide any files of The DrUnKeN mAsTeR!!!'s games, because the reason they are not hosted is not because you don't have them, but because they have an adult rating in ZXDB.

I agree that it would be good to reappraise the status of The DrUnKeN mAsTeR!!!'s games which are X-rated. If it were my choice, I wouldn't consider them adult titles (in spite of the vulgarities and some sexual references which appear in them). Having said that, I don't know what the level of sensitivity is usually applied for these decisions here .

[StooB]

I agree that it would be good to reappraise the status of The DrUnKeN mAsTeR!!!'s games which are X-rated. If it were my choice, I wouldn't consider them adult titles (in spite of the vulgarities and some sexual references which appear in them). Having said that, I don't know what the level of sensitivity is usually applied for these decisions here .

Bearing in mind that there are now 10 year olds visiting the site, this is unlikely to change!

[spider]

I considered things like that at one point with COPPA etc but given how it is so easy to just enter whatever you like there seemed little point as the 'blame' would never fall the correct way unfortunately. I'm not even sure how valid those rules are across countries anyway given the 'global' nature of the internet.

This reminds me of how parents buy an 18+ 'game' for their small offspring's console then complain its unsuitable with content etc. I say "well would you take them to see an 18 film at the cinema?" , the answer is usually "no" , so my reply would be something along the lines of "you purchased it knowing its rating" but it tends to end with something like "but its only a game!" , rock vs hard place with this kind of thing really unfortunately. You can't win.

Back on topic, the site updates look very good Danny now I've actually had a few more minutes to digest them. Top work!

[jetsetdanny]

Thanks, Andy!

[jetsetdanny]

Real life has been relatively kind in that I have been able to start work on the list already, and, hopefully, it will be ready by the end of the month.

Great! Thank you!

OK, it's done! I have sent Einar, Peter and Dave a PM with links to download the documents and files I have prepared .

[jetsetdanny]

I am pleased to announce another update of JSW Central .

The highlights:

1. A "proper" main page has been created, giving an overview of the site (previously links to the Home page led to the main list of MM and JSW games).

2. Two new sections: "Authors about their games" and "What's new?" have been added to the site.

The section "Authors about their games" was created at this time because I received "exclusive" input from Paul Equinox Collins, the author of "JSW: The '96 Remix" and "It's Wet Jelly", and from Leslie Marwick, the author of "Spaceman Willy", and I wanted to put it online. To make the section a little more than a nucleus, I added descriptions of games by Richard Hallas (copied from his website - with his kind explicit permission), Andrew Broad - using his generic permission to quote his texts: "I give my permission to quote anything I ever posted in public (provided of course that it's properly attributed, and not taken out of context to make me look bad)", and myself. I would like to extend warm thanks to Paul and Leslie for sending me their input and to Richard for allowing me to use the texts from his website!

There are links from the authors' texts (their titles, to be exact) to the games' individual pages, and there are links from the games' pages to the authors' descriptions. One doubt I have is whether it is better that these open in a new tab (as is currently the case) or not - please advise if you have a strong opinion on it after browsing JSW Central.

I will develop this section gradually, but it is not a priority for me - my next big (and slow) task will be to provide a complete screenshot gallery for each game's individual page. However, I will prioritise the addition of new entries to "Authors about their games" if authors send me their input - please do, I will be happy to publish it on JSW Central!

The "What's new?" section is self-explanatory, of course. Its creation responds to a suggestion I've received of making the updates more visible so that people know the site is up to date.

3. The "About JSW Central" section has been modified and renamed "Brief history", to reflect its content better and in order not to duplicate the current home page.

4. The panel on the left side has been modified to reflect the changes in the section layout.

5. Links to their recently-created pages on Spectrum Computing have been added on several games' pages.

6. Chronology has been updated.

There have also been various other minor updates here and there which are not worth describing in detail.

Enjoy!