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- Thu Mar 28, 2024 7:42 am
- Forum: Other Retro Stuff
- Topic: Atari 400 Mini
- Replies: 14
- Views: 874
Re: Atari 400 Mini
Is this from the same company that was at the centre of the Vega debacle? No. It's from the company that was formed by some of the people involved in the original Vega project, but it was a separate company they set up to produce other retro console revivals. The act of them setting that company up...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 7:15 am
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: Options for reading & writing real Disciple / Plus D & SAM disks in 2024
- Replies: 7
- Views: 201
Re: Options for reading & writing real Disciple / Plus D & SAM disks in 2024
I've been able to copy across various CP/M programs to SAM from a Windows XP machine because SAM ProDOS (CP/M for the SAM) has a utility for reading from FAT formatted disks. http://8bitag.com/info/documents/cpm-to-prodos.txt
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 6:29 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Devfinitive Edition (Fergus McNeil): discussion
- Replies: 5
- Views: 154
Re: Devfinitive Edition (Fergus McNeil): discussion
For the purposes of this I would probably suggest combining the Dragonstar entries. They're really multiple parts of the same game and when I asked Fergus I seem to remember that he thought the advert that suggests he was selling them separately may have just been badly worded. (They were only ever ...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 1:23 pm
- Forum: Brand new software!
- Topic: The Elves of Maroland
- Replies: 10
- Views: 413
Re: The Elves of Maroland
No, it would not be true to say that DAAD is a Spanish version of the PAW. DAAD was a separate, specially commissioned development system that grew from the PAW, in a similar way to how the PAW itself came from The Quill. DAAD has its own entry in SC. (There *was* a Spanish version of the PAW. But t...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 9:43 am
- Forum: Brand new software!
- Topic: The Elves of Maroland
- Replies: 10
- Views: 413
Re: The Elves of Maroland
There is some past precedent for a single entry (for both language versions of the later DAAD version) e.g. https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/34819/ZX-Spectrum/The_House_on_the_Other_Side_of_the_Storm And examples either way of whether the PAW and DAAD versions could be combined. The argument in...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 7:25 am
- Forum: Emulators
- Topic: Will Spectaculator ever get a new version?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 345
Re: Will Spectaculator ever get a new version?
Spectaculator is still my go-to emulator when it comes to playing and developing games. I must admit I've never experienced any of those issues mentioned in the "cons" section. At the moment, it runs perfectly well under Windows 11 so I'm not sure it needs a new version. Jonathan still res...
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 8:51 pm
- Forum: Preservation
- Topic: Sam Emulator
- Replies: 6
- Views: 260
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 8:23 pm
- Forum: Preservation
- Topic: Cursed be the City
- Replies: 6
- Views: 256
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 8:15 pm
- Forum: Preservation
- Topic: Cursed be the City
- Replies: 6
- Views: 256
Re: Cursed be the City
The tape inlay indicates the files have come from The Guild re-release of the game, yes. (The original release would've likely included the identical files but the existing version preserved is incomplete)
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 10:13 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: "Alfa Een" Afrikaans adventure game
- Replies: 8
- Views: 350
Re: "Alfa Een" Afrikaans adventure game
This would be the very first (text?) adventure I've heard about written in Afrikaans, so hopefully it can be found eventually. I've only previously come across games from South African that were written in English.
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 8:30 pm
- Forum: Preservation
- Topic: The Quest for the Staff of the First Moon
- Replies: 21
- Views: 698
Re: The Quest for the Staff of the First Moon
UnQuill is more for extracting the game's database to a text file. I don't think it will do what people are suggesting it will. (I use UnQuill & UnPAWs all the time) What do you have of the original game? Does it exist on tape? You could make a nice clean version of it by loading the game file b...
- Sun Feb 04, 2024 11:22 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best Speccy game by Mike Young: vote
- Replies: 5
- Views: 344
Re: The best Speccy game by Mike Young: vote
The current date on ZXDB for The Plagues of Egypt is incorrect. It's at least as early as 1989, as it was reviewed in the August 1989 issue of Adventure Probe. Plagues is a much bigger (two part) adventure written with the PAW, rather than the Quill as used in Noah.
- Fri Feb 02, 2024 2:39 pm
- Forum: ZXDB Discussion
- Topic: Lord of the Rings license/inspiration games not in list
- Replies: 4
- Views: 335
Re: Lord of the Rings license/inspiration games not in list
The licences for games, products & other artistic works such as films based on The Hobbit and those based on The Lord of the Rings are often distinct. Which has caused... and continues to cause... headaches for the companies licencing works and the various Tolkien companies themselves. ;) The li...
- Tue Jan 30, 2024 10:03 pm
- Forum: ZXDB Fixes
- Topic: 'never released' 'not a Spectrum game' trash
- Replies: 5
- Views: 515
Re: 'never released' 'not a Spectrum game' trash
We have discussed many of these entries in past threads, such as this one...
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- Tue Jan 23, 2024 9:57 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: British Crown Dependencies on the ZX Spectrum
- Replies: 12
- Views: 578
Re: British Crown Dependencies on the ZX Spectrum
Opens can of worms about whether the "UK" tag on ZXDB covers the Isle of Man etc.
- Sun Jan 21, 2024 9:54 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: British Crown Dependencies on the ZX Spectrum
- Replies: 12
- Views: 578
Re: British Crown Dependencies on the ZX Spectrum
Also on the text adventure front, Mark Walker, who wrote The Amulet of Darath and The Oppressed Land for Zenobi, is from the Isle of Man, iirc.
- Sun Jan 21, 2024 3:13 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best Speccy game by Tartan Software: vote
- Replies: 7
- Views: 407
Re: The best Speccy game by Tartan Software: vote
To be fair, I'd advised you in line with your usual rules. ;) Which I always respect, but don't agree with. White Door was disqualified as it was a non-Tartan type-in in its original Crisis at Christmas form. 1942 Mission wasn't originally at Tartan-published game. The Spy Trilogy slips in, as altho...
- Tue Jan 16, 2024 8:36 pm
- Forum: Preservation
- Topic: La Diosa de Cozumel
- Replies: 14
- Views: 653
Re: La Diosa de Cozumel
It was the early pre-DAAD version of... https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/6183/ZX-Spectrum/Cozumel ...I think? Unpublished at the time? I'll leave that to the Spanish adventurers like Rockersuke to confirm, but from what I read it was what Andres used as a demonstration to present to Dinamic bef...
- Tue Jan 16, 2024 10:49 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best Speccy game by 8th Day Software: vote
- Replies: 8
- Views: 613
Re: The best Speccy game by 8th Day Software: vote
They were pretty big sellers back in the day and their initial "budget" range was certainly disruptive; making what some companies were charging look extremely expensive. Although the tabloid (and House of Commons) baiting HRH probably gets a lot of the attention, some of the later PAWed t...
- Sun Jan 14, 2024 9:58 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best Speccy game by Tartan Software: discussion
- Replies: 2
- Views: 135
Re: The best Speccy game by Tartan Software: discussion
While I always have a preference for looking at the complete catalogue in these sorts of polls, going on your usual rules these games wouldn't normally be included... 1942 Mission (originally released by CCS) Gordello Dynasty (this is a compilation, not a distinct game) The Prospector (original vers...
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 12:00 pm
- Forum: Preservation
- Topic: Adventure 4 Pack
- Replies: 4
- Views: 250
Re: Adventure 4 Pack
Both Mansion and Castle are the same too, so this is probably the version of the compilation already archived.
We didn't have the inlay, though.
We didn't have the inlay, though.
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 10:21 pm
- Forum: Preservation
- Topic: Adventure 4 Pack
- Replies: 4
- Views: 250
Re: Adventure 4 Pack
I've quickly checked the first game (Mission X) and the databases for both versions attributed to H&D are identical. I'd imagine it'll be the same for the other three but I will verify at a later point.
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 10:10 pm
- Forum: Preservation
- Topic: Adventure 4 Pack
- Replies: 4
- Views: 250
Re: Adventure 4 Pack
This is the matching ZXDB entry, so I think it should be identical - https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/0013362 I will have a check though, later. Walter went on to release the games himself, where iirc he made various tweaks. Those versions later went on to be republished by GI Games/Zenobi. The...
- Sun Jan 07, 2024 10:27 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best Speccy game by 8th Day Software: discussion
- Replies: 12
- Views: 584
Re: The best Speccy game by 8th Day Software: discussion
Serious comment: I don't think many of these games got a lot of attention, so I wonder how meaningfully people can vote. Perhaps not from people who frequent these forums, but 8th Day were a big disrupter of the adventure market back in the day and they're probably one of the bigger "professio...
- Sun Jan 07, 2024 10:26 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best Speccy game by 8th Day Software: discussion
- Replies: 12
- Views: 584
Re: The best Speccy game by 8th Day Software: discussion
Skelvullyn Twine probably should be on the list as well. At the moment, there isn't (as far as I know) any evidence Peter himself sold any copies prior to 8th Day releasing the game. All the reviews we have are for the 8th Day version.