Spectrum Computing

I just finished adding to ZXDB all Spectrum and ZX81 tenliners* up to 2021: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/list?quick=g&text=tenliner Could someone please add the new Spectrum and ZX81 tenliners since 2022? The information can be found here: https://gkanold.wixsite.com/homeputerium/ * Tenliner ...

Good catch!

Thank you!!!

Andre Leao wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2024 8:13 pm Only in 10 lines!!!!!

BTW we have others in the archive:

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/list?qu ... t=tenliner

Awesome!!!

It has a very good chance of winning the competition next year!

I forgot to mention that submitted fixes won't appear online immediately. They will be included in the following ZXDB update (about a week later). Therefore if you are willing to help, it's probably a good idea to mention it in this thread to avoid someone else doing exactly the same magazine. EDIT:...

A few book reviews appeared in SU #8 page 37, that are currently associated with SU #8 supplement "Spectrum User" but they appeared in the main issue.

There are also 5 game reviews in pages 28 and 31 of C&VG #27, that ZXSR incorrectly assigned to this issue's supplement "Book of Adventure" but they appeared in the main issue.

The reviews of the following games from C&VG #41 appeared in the main issue, but ZXSR incorrectly indicates they appeared in supplement "Book of Adventure": 3D Starstrike Airwolf Gift from the Gods Lode Runner Mutant Monty Skool Daze The Great Space Race Viking Raiders Again I'm not su...

The reviews of the following games from C&VG #50 appeared in the main issue, but ZXSR incorrectly indicates they appeared in its "Adventure Supplement": Chimera Daley Thompson's Supertest Elite Fairlight Grumpy Gumphrey Supersleuth Gyroscope Hyper Sports Impossible Mission Now Games Ri...

Right now we have about 200 type-ins in the archive, where we know the magazine issue they were published, but not the page number: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/list?bug=r&mode=1&order=1 Locating the correct page numbers is not an easy task, especially considering that almost all of them ...

Black Lamp was reviewed in ACE #6 page 40 and ACE #8 page 68, not ACE #6 page 68.

The C&VG #93 review of Infiltrator appeared in page 83, not 93.

Einar Saukas wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 7:32 pm whenever there's a new ZXDB release, I will also provide a separate file with the already generated tables.

From now on, the generated "search" tables will be available at this link in directory ZXDB.

I don't think these generated tables should be put together with the main data. Certain sites may have no use for them (for instance ZXInfo uses ElasticSearch instead of queries). Others may choose a different convention to display information such as publishers (in case of a title originally publis...

Another ZXDB release is now available! We added hundreds more links to ports of Spectrum titles in other platforms. Many thanks to Kim Lemon from Lemon64 for this information! We have been collaborating for quite some time helping each other and exchanging data, which benefits both sites. This relea...

ONCE zx0 is made on ZX it will save a lot of (reeeaaal) loading time from 13k to say 3-8 k IF i use a (real) loading scheme that is a turbo type then the 3-9k will act like 1.5 to 4k or even faster... These benefits (from using data that was compressed with ZX0) will be exactly the same, regardless...

C.Born wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:44 pm i want to know if its use-able for an zx0 ON Z80 machine

In theory, the ZX0 compressor should work in a Z80 machine. However you probably won't be able to compress data blocks larger than 1K and, even so, it will probably take a VERY long time to run.

I don't think that's a good idea...

Notice there's "classic" Elias gamma coding (that's explained in Wikipedia ) and the more efficient "interlaced" Elias gamma coding. There are also other variants such as Exponential-Golomb coding (see Wikipedia ). It's identical to Elias gamma coding except starting at 0 instead...

R-Tape wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 8:32 pm So how should this look in the DB? Should the Bunkered ID be deleted, and Global to be listed as a re-releaser of Abrasco's Golf?

I think so.

I will make this change.

A new ZXDB release is now available!

Also when adding a new (MIA) entry, click on "Show advanced features" and add each feature under "Group title".

why was the library_title removed in the first place? Because it's an automatically generated field. Imagine the following analogy with programming. Suppose you are creating a game where every sprite also needs the corresponding mirrored version, and it's not viable to generate them during runtime....

Good work!

I also enjoyed the story, except I think this sentence sounds weird:

There are no lights but there’s enough light to easily see by.

Perhaps it would sound better this way:

There are no light sources but still enough ambient light to easily see by.

Excellent!