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Thank you!!!

Ok. The two entries of Textor point to wrong mag issues, it should be #154 and #155 for the 2nd part. I could only create an update request for the first entry, the second is not accessible from the menu. Whenever the online form doesn't accept a correction, please write in "comments" wha...

I did a few titles from Hebdogiciel mags but when I try to generate the request there's a popup "Original = Yes must be specified only once!". No idea what's causing this. This problem seems to happen when the original publication was published in parts, spread across different magazine i...

Challenge:

Can you recognize any other "stolen" graphic in this loading screen that I failed to list under "adapted from" here?

Lee Bee wrote: ↑Mon Apr 29, 2024 6:25 pm Sorry, I checked here and the artist isn't credited for the second game. I've found the credit now.

I will update the credits in ZXDB. Thanks for pointing this out!

It's not a coincidence when the same person creates a screen, and later decides to use it in a game!

Einar Saukas wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 12:43 pm 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?bu ... =1&order=1

Now we only have 120 type-ins with this problem.

Thanks a lot to everyone that helped!!!

Einar Saukas wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 3:48 pm There are a few more cases here:

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/relations.php

(look under "LOADING SCREEN ADAPTED FROM")

This list was updated, also including a few cases not mentioned in this thread (for instance Renegade).

Anything else?

From SC homepage, click on RELATIONS and look at section INSPIRED BY:

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/relations.php

You will find several examples. For instance:

Exolon
Shuriken

C.Born wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2024 2:02 pm zx0 is 8bits only?

No, it uses 16 bits in Elias Gamma coding.

Yes

There are more options in the Zeta-Xi Code link but uou can ignore them.

This table you copied is all you need.

A new ZXDB version is available!

I know that I'm several days late on this subject with answers that are going to be superior to mine, but I would like to say that for my game F'n Balls, I used the Wavefront algorithm for my pathfinding needs. It ran quite quickly and took a nominal amount of memory to implement. I write about it ...

Yes, I just meant not adding CSSCGC entries to the relations list of adapted loading screens in ZXDB.

It would be within the spirit of CSSCGC to submit a loading screen combining pieces of 200 existing games just to drive me crazy

Lee P wrote: ↑Thu Apr 25, 2024 2:07 pm I assume CGC entries don't count?

You can mention them here, but it's better to avoid adding them to the list in ZXDB. Otherwise it would be an incentive for CSSCGC authors to do it on purpose all the time, just to get into this list...

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"Just because the game is free does not mean that it can be fragmented into parts and used indiscriminately." Another option is, perhaps we can simply add a short message in the "downloads" section stating the obvious: that files freely available for download are usually copyrig...