Spectrum Computing

Purchased, quite hard but with a very good gameplay. Already submitted to ZXDB.

Thank you for your help. Indeed it's a hack of 'Spectres'. No need to submit Fantastic Mission snapshot to ZXDB, obviously.

PRESERVED Not found at SC nor WOS, I thought it would be good to allocate this game here. I've been looking for it first on Quick Search, and also at WOS' Infoseek, but there's no entry made for this release, almost unknown for many. For some reason, in-action screenshot was a bit familiar to me but...

I've noticed, after checking its BASIC listing, there's a routine expecting to load a next program (from line 6000). With this clue, all options are possible.

PRESERVED Is this golf simulator missing-in-action? Or was it commercially released in some form? I think it could be a type-in from any Spectrum book or magazine, but his author couldn't be found with Infoseek or Quick Search. Neither found at The Type Fantastic website. https://i.postimg.cc/qNngzp...

Wow, you are fast! Nice job! Do you type directly into a Spectrum/emulator, or are you using some type of utility to type then upload to an emulator? I'm curious because I'm also on a bit of a type-in mission with Sinclair Programs type-ins. Thank you! :) As 20 programs are quite short in length, I...

All programs typed and checked! Soon to be uploaded each one of them to the archive.

I've found out that both games are the same playable demos rescued in 2005 at the same website (btw: not included in Spectrum Computing yet). PC versions are quite new and need each to be placed, once decomprissed, as indicated: - The first is that you don't have to place the directory in a place wh...

In the last update of Spanish page El Trastero Del Spectrum, Alberto Pérez Torres and Manuel Domínguez Zaragoza (Slowglass), the authors of Cyberbig arcade game (see their softlist here ) sent two games: Zamonarr II and City Defender. Both programs have been released in two forms: for ZX Spectrum an...

I've just uploaded to ZXDB most of this set of educational quiz games produced by a still-uMIA label called Sherwood Software, which was preserved in 2003 by one SPA2 team member for El Trastero Del Spectrum website. At least four of supposed five parts of Italian Terms were recovered, but I'm not s...

Thank you Einar!

I was looking for ZX-81 Quicksilva's QS-Invaders and the only thing I've found was this entry . I wonder if it's the same game lately re-released by Quicksilva label in 1982, as related downwards, so I could upload the .p file I've found in this French site (1982 re-release) and inlays. http://zx81....

PeterJ wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 8:25 pm Thanks @Neil Parsons,

Please submit each one separately, and in the notes field add:

'Please link to book name, page number', then @Einar Saukas will do his magic to link everything.

Peter

OK. Thanks!

Hi! I was wondering if all BASIC programs published in this Hewson Consultants book could be added to ZXDB as I pretend to type in them whenever I can. As I own the original UK book release, I could submit everyone of them separately once copied and checked, or at least unify all of them in one sing...

This Portuguese release of "Spacman" type-in from Sinclair Programs magazine could be merged with its parent issue, I think.

I've noticed that this entry at SC isn't complete, concerning re-releases. In fact, Spanish label MCM Software reissued Super Trux (or Supertrux) on jewel case for 875pts in 1989. This is an advert appeared at Microhobby magazine issue 191 with selected games, Supertrux among them, distributed by MC...

Checking my actual ZX Spectrum collection of games in TAP/TZX files, I've just noticed I had since a long time ago the files for Spectrumania 1 - Year 1 (Ventamatic, 1984) . I don't remember where I downloaded them or how I got them, but somehow it's fine. Tape contents after viewing them carefully:...

Do you mean The Type Fantastic? Because the link to it there is broken. True. But if you manage to modify link address (http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/type-ins/sincprog/ sp8301-02_005.zip ) by typing "sp830102.zip" for file name on your browser, it downloads correctly. So the ...

Found at TTFn another Spacman game, still MIA at SC. In short, I'll upload corresponding files for Spacman 2 by Nicholas Lock (also from Sinclair Programs magazine)

Already typed and checked this Pac-Man clone for the ZX Spectrum, from the magazine Sinclair Programs issue 6 of March 1983 by Duncan Anderson. Not preserved here, yet. In few seconds, I've uploaded it to ZXDB. 1-min later... I've just realised it was uploaded at Jim Grimwood's site... :roll: :mrgre...

Good job. May you send it to Jim Grimwood's TTFn site? Not preserved there yet.

Happy New Year, people!

I see this is a different file to the one existing here. Good find!

Likewise. Have a nice Christmas Day and enjoy! Also, Happy New Year!

I took a look at the existing TAP file and, indeed, the final block has a misreported length: --- $ tap2sna.py --tape-stop 6 TEMPERMT.TAP Program: TEMPERAM Fast loading data block: 23755,203 Fast loading data block: 16384,22088 Bytes: Fast loading data block: 57075,8461 Tape finished Simulation sto...