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by StooB
Wed Mar 27, 2024 10:05 am
Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
Topic: DenOfGeek : The games that defined the Spectrum
Replies: 31
Views: 508

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...
by StooB
Mon Mar 25, 2024 11:24 am
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: A 16K/48K/128K Spectrum game?
Replies: 5
Views: 191

Re: A 16K/48K/128K Spectrum game?

Pobulous wrote: Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:08 am Has there even been a game that was different on 16K and 48K?
Hewson's Maze Chase and New Generation's 3D Tunnel have bigger 48k versions on the other side of the tape.
by StooB
Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:32 am
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: £12 gets you "Free software for LIFE!", apparently.
Replies: 11
Views: 288

Re: £12 gets you "Free software for LIFE!", apparently.

5MinuteRetro wrote: Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:08 am Do people still do this?!
Yes he does.
by StooB
Sun Mar 03, 2024 1:27 pm
Forum: ZXDB Fixes
Topic: Little bugs in the database 4
Replies: 651
Views: 86935

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...
by StooB
Fri Mar 01, 2024 6:25 pm
Forum: ZXDB Discussion
Topic: Cricket?
Replies: 7
Views: 215

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 ...
by StooB
Wed Feb 28, 2024 8:23 am
Forum: ZXDB Fixes
Topic: Preservation Tools - Submissions Feedback/Q/A
Replies: 66
Views: 3300

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 "...
by StooB
Sun Feb 25, 2024 2:41 pm
Forum: Emulators
Topic: Ubuntu Fuse: Full Screen Issues
Replies: 15
Views: 412

Re: Ubuntu Fuse: Full Screen Issues

Run it from a console with the command fuse-gtk or fuse-sdl.
by StooB
Sun Feb 25, 2024 12:29 pm
Forum: Emulators
Topic: Ubuntu Fuse: Full Screen Issues
Replies: 15
Views: 412

Re: Ubuntu Fuse: Full Screen Issues

GreenCard wrote: Sun Feb 25, 2024 11:53 am Again, I have no proper idea what I'm actually doing, so if someone could tell me what I'm doing wrong it'd be much appreciated
This is all you need:

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sudo apt install fuse-emulator* spectrum-roms
There's no need to compile anything.
by StooB
Mon Feb 19, 2024 11:23 am
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: Devfinitive Edition (David Jones): discussion
Replies: 13
Views: 390

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...
by StooB
Wed Feb 14, 2024 12:55 pm
Forum: ZXDB Fixes
Topic: Little bugs in the database 6
Replies: 126
Views: 5010

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....
by StooB
Mon Feb 12, 2024 3:16 pm
Forum: ZXDB Fixes
Topic: Little bugs in the database 6
Replies: 126
Views: 5010

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.
by StooB
Thu Feb 08, 2024 1:43 pm
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: Battle ships
Replies: 5
Views: 311

Re: Battle ships

druellan wrote: Thu Feb 08, 2024 12:01 pm About the releases, we can assume the Encore release was BEFORE the EDOS one?
Yes, the EDOS release is definitely last. They don't seem to have existed until the 90s.
✓ Reviewed
by StooB
Thu Feb 08, 2024 9:39 am
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: Battle ships
Replies: 5
Views: 311

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 ) ...
by StooB
Fri Feb 02, 2024 8:45 am
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: What, in your eyes, is the worst games software house?
Replies: 40
Views: 1850

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...
by StooB
Wed Jan 03, 2024 10:01 am
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: Spaghetti football?!?
Replies: 18
Views: 783

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...
by StooB
Sat Dec 30, 2023 8:59 pm
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: Spaghetti football?!?
Replies: 18
Views: 783

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 ...
by StooB
Thu Dec 28, 2023 11:28 am
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: The best rereleased Speccy game by React: discussion
Replies: 5
Views: 258

Re: The best rereleased Speccy game by React: discussion

This one is hiding from your searches:

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by StooB
Tue Dec 19, 2023 8:19 am
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: Zaxxon, should have been better for 1985
Replies: 24
Views: 1036

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 ...
by StooB
Mon Dec 18, 2023 8:32 am
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: Zaxxon, should have been better for 1985
Replies: 24
Views: 1036

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 ...
by StooB
Mon Dec 04, 2023 9:53 am
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: The best rereleased Speccy game by Alternative Software: discussion
Replies: 8
Views: 236

Re: The best rereleased Speccy game by Alternative Software: discussion

Also, while Frightmare and Fallen Angel did appear under the Summit brand, they are also part of 4Most Fight & Fright, so count as Alternative re-releases. Well, if you're adding re-releases from Summit/React/Winner on the 4 Most compilations then you do need: The Double from 4 Most Balls, Boot...
by StooB
Mon Dec 04, 2023 7:48 am
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: The best rereleased Speccy game by Alternative Software: discussion
Replies: 8
Views: 236

Re: The best rereleased Speccy game by Alternative Software: discussion

There were other brands owned by Alternative Software, such as Summit, Winner and React, who also reissued games from Alternative Software's acquisition of other company's software archives. I'll be covering those later on this month. Let me know if there's a mistake with anything in the above. Tha...
by StooB
Wed Nov 29, 2023 9:28 am
Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
Topic: Spotify Playlist
Replies: 16
Views: 326

Re: Spotify Playlist

Roxy Music - Avalon
Klaus Nomi - Total Eclipse
Garbage - Run Baby Run
by StooB
Tue Nov 28, 2023 8:34 am
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: But really, why didn't the Speccy have a definitive football game?
Replies: 42
Views: 1182

Re: But really, why didn't the Speccy have a definitive football game?

I'll need to check this out. I don't think it made much impact when originally released. Emlyn Hughes International Soccer is by a long way the most successful non-management football game on the Spectrum, and on the C64 too. It was denied the number one position by RoboCop for a few months in earl...
by StooB
Mon Nov 27, 2023 9:26 am
Forum: ZXDB Fixes
Topic: Re: Cover Artists 2
Replies: 337
Views: 48465

Re: Cover Artists 2

Juan F. Ramirez wrote: Mon Nov 27, 2023 7:35 am Did anyone recognize the artist behind these letters in the signature?:

Whoever it is also put their initials on Artic's Millimon, Snooker, ABC and Snake. What looks like their full signature seems to be on Flight Simulator:

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by StooB
Mon Nov 27, 2023 7:14 am
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: Devfinitive Edition (Matthew Smith): discussion
Replies: 32
Views: 1136

Re: Devfinitive Edition (Matthew Smith): discussion

R-Tape wrote: Sun Nov 26, 2023 10:12 pm Alright alright! - apart from Toms, Singleton, White, Escort and Reidy, which other coder made such a name for themselves with so few titles?
Veronika Megler - The Hobbit and Penetrator.