Manic Miner version differences

The two Manic Miner game engines are similar, but not quite identical. The following may help in adapting POKEs:

Addresses from 8000h-846Dh (32768-33901) are the same;
Addresses from 846Eh-8C29h (33902-35881) should have 6 added to them;
Addresses from 8C2Ah-8C72h (35882-35954) should have 13 added to them;
Addresses from 8C73h-9356h (35955-37718) should have 11 added to them;
Addresses above 9357h (37719) are the same.

Changes which don't affect addresses include:

Different sprites in The Warehouse and Amoebatrons' Revenge.
Different scrolling message on the title screen.
No source code embedded in the free space.
The cheat code is now on the W-P key row, not the 0-9 one.
Cheats are activated using key 9 (key 6 is used by the Sinclair joystick).

Reasons for code moves

There are 6 bytes extra at 846Eh, for the three extra characters in the cheat string ("TYPEWRITER" as opposed to "6031769")
The code at 8C2Ah and 8C73h has been rewritten to support the Sinclair joystick. The Bug-Byte version maps keys as follows: 5=Left, 7=Jump, 8=Right, 0=Jump whereas the Software Projects version uses: 5=Left, 6=Left, 7=Right, 8=Right, 0=Jump and the code for these checks is a slightly different size.

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