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- Fri May 10, 2024 12:32 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: ZX Spectrum Top 100 games collection (feat. 274 titles)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 949
Re: ZX Spectrum Top 100 games collection (feat. 274 titles)
Looking closer at the Crash list generates another "what were they smoking?" question, this time of a more editorial nature. Both Renegades and SWIV seem to have double entries...how on Earth can you miss an error like that? It's a top 100 list, not 1000 ;) Or is it me, missing something ...
- Thu May 09, 2024 9:20 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best exclusive game from a recognised brand on a YS/Crash/SU covertape: vote
- Replies: 16
- Views: 299
Re: The best exclusive game from a recognised brand on a YS/Crash/SU covertape: vote
Still absolutely jaw-dropping that Elite only found this suitable for a volume two edition of six games (the rest being rereleases) and gave it to a magazine as a covertape item. A terrible commercial decision Of course, it's purely coincidental that the same issue of YS gave the cover, a two page ...
- Tue May 07, 2024 7:51 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: ZX Spectrum Top 100 games collection (feat. 274 titles)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 949
Re: ZX Spectrum Top 100 games collection (feat. 274 titles)
I look at Crash's Top 100 list, but it's only 50-1. Am I missing something here or is it really only top 50? Well the article says "the ultimate chart of your all-time fave 50 Speccy games" so I guess it is...just wonder why they called it that, or is there a real Crash Top 100 out there ...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 1:44 pm
- Forum: ZXDB Discussion
- Topic: New Database Model ZXDB
- Replies: 538
- Views: 113714
Re: New Database Model ZXDB
Go to small changes for existing entries and scroll down to the pink Groups section.Neil Parsons wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2024 1:28 pm Controls, Features, Graphical Views, Native Programming Languages (BASIC, Machine Code, etc.), Copyright Status and Cross-Platform Tools.
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 4:01 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best Speccy game by D&H Games: discussion
- Replies: 3
- Views: 163
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 4:59 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: MAD Cover Artist
- Replies: 4
- Views: 228
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 10:05 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: DenOfGeek : The games that defined the Spectrum
- Replies: 31
- Views: 1362
Re: DenOfGeek : The games that defined the Spectrum
Yes, it was a fairly obscure and underrated game around the time of its release, no doubt about that, but it achieved cult status from that first appearance on YS's covertape. That's what we call a sleeper hit. The idea that Your Sinclair single-handedly plucked the previously maligned Chaos out of...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 11:24 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: A 16K/48K/128K Spectrum game?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 622
Re: A 16K/48K/128K Spectrum game?
Hewson's Maze Chase and New Generation's 3D Tunnel have bigger 48k versions on the other side of the tape.
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:32 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: £12 gets you "Free software for LIFE!", apparently.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 341
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 1:27 pm
- Forum: ZXDB Fixes
- Topic: Little bugs in the database 4
- Replies: 652
- Views: 89593
Re: Little bugs in the database 4
They're all the wrong way round, eg Spectrum Games was renamed to Ocean, Richard Wilcox Software was renamed to Elite, Tehkan was renamed to Tecmo etc. apart from: A'n'F and MC Lothlorien owned Icon Design, they didn't become them. These are still the wrong way round, or the labels "renamed fr...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 6:25 pm
- Forum: ZXDB Discussion
- Topic: Cricket?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 560
Re: Cricket?
Graham Gooch is a conversion of the C64 original and is from 1985, not 1986 as is currently listed, although there is also an updated 1986 version with a sticker saying "new 1986 version" on the front. Argus didn't start using the Bug-Byte label until late 85, but based on the cover style ...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 8:23 am
- Forum: ZXDB Fixes
- Topic: Preservation Tools - Submissions Feedback/Q/A
- Replies: 70
- Views: 3950
Re: Preservation Tools - Submissions Feedback/Q/A
Hi @StooB About your fixes on the SQIJ! I was thinking that on top of removing the inaccurate comment, we can give more context based on the interview on Eurogamer. I was thinking on adding two extra comments: "Jason Creighton recalls CRL reporting having sold about 250 copies." and "...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 2:41 pm
- Forum: Emulators
- Topic: Ubuntu Fuse: Full Screen Issues
- Replies: 15
- Views: 782
Re: Ubuntu Fuse: Full Screen Issues
Run it from a console with the command fuse-gtk or fuse-sdl.
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 12:29 pm
- Forum: Emulators
- Topic: Ubuntu Fuse: Full Screen Issues
- Replies: 15
- Views: 782
Re: Ubuntu Fuse: Full Screen Issues
This is all you need:
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sudo apt install fuse-emulator* spectrum-roms
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 11:23 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Devfinitive Edition (David Jones): discussion
- Replies: 13
- Views: 433
Re: Devfinitive Edition (David Jones): discussion
I’m not sure why the DB has a separate listing for Spellbound and not the others. The logic behind it is that Spellbound was originally designed as a 48k game and published before the Spectrum 128 was released. It's zxdb entry has a machine type of "ZX Spectrum 48K". Knight Tyme and Storm...
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 12:55 pm
- Forum: ZXDB Fixes
- Topic: Little bugs in the database 6
- Replies: 148
- Views: 7897
Re: Little bugs in the database 6
Manchester United Europe has a re-release on Krisalis Software 's budget label, "Buzz". Mobygames has scans of the cassette inlay: https://cdn.mobygames.com/d0a03a6a-ab95-11ed-a13c-02420a00019f.webp https://cdn.mobygames.com/d25340d2-ab95-11ed-a13c-02420a00019f.webp https://cdn.mobygames....
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 3:16 pm
- Forum: ZXDB Fixes
- Topic: Little bugs in the database 6
- Replies: 148
- Views: 7897
Re: Little bugs in the database 6
Software Supersavers Ltd
All the magazine references from 1987/8 should be moved to a new entry for "Software Supersavers" of type "Company: Software sales". This company is not "Software Supersavers Ltd", the budget label from Software Projects.
All the magazine references from 1987/8 should be moved to a new entry for "Software Supersavers" of type "Company: Software sales". This company is not "Software Supersavers Ltd", the budget label from Software Projects.
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 1:43 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Battle ships
- Replies: 5
- Views: 351
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 9:39 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Battle ships
- Replies: 5
- Views: 351
Re: Battle ships
So maybe the DB needs to be updated to reflect this? Looks like the Encore release was deleted when the original release was changed to be the Hit Pak compilation a couple of years ago. I've added it back on the preservation tools with the release date and price from the advert above. ( druellan ) ...
- Fri Feb 02, 2024 8:45 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: What, in your eyes, is the worst games software house?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 1996
Re: What, in your eyes, is the worst games software house?
I think K-Tel was an imprint of the Prism Leisure Corporation, or even an alias. Anyway, there's some kind of connection there. Prism own Front Runner, the original publisher of ZX Spectrum Boulder Dash. Also, Prism was one of a few companies that rereleased it. It's convoluted, I know... No, Prism...
- Wed Jan 03, 2024 10:01 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Spaghetti football?!?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 838
Re: Spaghetti football?!?
Yeah I'm personally convinced of this now. Italia 90 was a registered trademark (you can see the ® sign on the game packaging) and there might have been reasons why they couldn't use it before formally acquiring the licence. And of course spaghetti is Italian, and "spaghetti football" isn...
- Sat Dec 30, 2023 8:59 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Spaghetti football?!?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 838
Re: Spaghetti football?!?
This sounds like a hoax. I found one site which references Popular Computing Weekly magazine on this date, but it's missing. Also, several other sources state the final issue was 415, the week before (my guess is the owner of this site just carried on adding the data for each issue without knowing ...
- Thu Dec 28, 2023 11:28 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best rereleased Speccy game by React: discussion
- Replies: 5
- Views: 271
Re: The best rereleased Speccy game by React: discussion
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- Tue Dec 19, 2023 8:19 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Zaxxon, should have been better for 1985
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1099
Re: Zaxxon, should have been better for 1985
weren't the realities the same for Commando (or, if you want any-direction scrolling, for Critical Mass ) in the same 1985? :roll: No. Commando and Critical Mass were released in November 1985 and were, with the exception of Nigel Alderton's work on Street Hawk, the developers only releases of the ...
- Mon Dec 18, 2023 8:32 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Zaxxon, should have been better for 1985
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1099
Re: Zaxxon, should have been better for 1985
While Zaxxon was 1985, it was only just 1985, released in early January. To put it into context, Ghostbusters was at number one, and Ultimate were in-between Knight Lore and Alien 8. Vortex had released Cyclone around 6 weeks earlier and Highway Encounter didn't come out until July 1985, around the ...