Spectrum Computing

How does Spectrum Computing feel about sourcing screenshots from elsewhere to use here? I can probably fill any final gaps with images from https://www.specnext.com/software-directory/ the SpecNext games directory. ZXDB has no requirements for "exclusivity", so using these images would be...

Ah... see the additional file downloads - the scan of the book cover shows $1.95. Good point! I didn't notice it. Now we can be sure the price is USD, since the price is directly printed in the book that was printed in US. And... the publisher is not Dragon, but Scholastic Inc which is United State...

Books in the Micro Adventure series were published by Scholastic Inc instead of Dragon, according to Wikipedia . These books are also copyrighted to Parachute Press together with the authors. Perhaps it should be added as team_id on each author? I could not find any reference to Dragon anywhere. Ev...

Books in the Micro Adventure series were published by Scholastic Inc instead of Dragon, according to Wikipedia . These books are also copyrighted to Parachute Press together with the authors. Perhaps it should be added as team_id on each author? I could not find any reference to Dragon anywhere. Eve...

Ninjakul in the AUIC Temple has missing credits. A complete list of authors and roles can be found here.

Also any idea what's the currency for these prices? Datadrive - about $120 Micro Adventure 8: The Big Freeze - $1.95 Ninjakul in the AUIC Temple - 12.5 Your Game-3 - $6 Z-Shell - $2 I think Ninjakul is Euros. http://www.matranet.net/boutique/zx/ninjakul/ninjakul.php The Matra re-release price is Eu...

Also any idea what's the currency for these prices? Micro Adventure 8: The Big Freeze - $1.95 The remark states: "Translated into Portuguese in 1985 (Cz$ 15,00)" Thanks, but the Brazilian re-release wasn't an issue. The problem is the original price "$1.95". Both author and publ...

Also any idea what's the currency for these prices? Datadrive - about $120 I think the price quote comes from: https://foro.speccy.org/viewtopic.php?p=19872&sid=73c52483553ed9a792a7f020eb0b6d55#p19872 That's it! The extra "S" in "U$S 120" wouldn't make sense in Uruguayan pes...

Also any idea what's the currency for these prices?

Datadrive - about $120
Micro Adventure 8: The Big Freeze - $1.95
Ninjakul in the AUIC Temple - 12.5
Your Game-3 - $6
Z-Shell - $2

I suppose all prices in "dinarjev" refer to Yugoslav dinar (YUD) that existed between 1966 and 1989: Ali Baba - 990 dinarjev Bajke - 2500 dinarjev Eurorun - 1490 dinarjev INES: Urejevalnik Podatkov, Slik in Besedil - 900 dinarjev Kontrabant - 700 dinarjev Kontrabant 2 - 1200 dinarjev Macek...

Also we can have release price in one currency and budget price in other one. We don't have any case like this. But I'm planning to modify this structure anyway, as part of the changes to support multiple “editions” within the same release (mentioned in the ZXDB roadmap ). Anyway, can anybody tell ...

About this title: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/25157/ZX-Spectrum/Fysikh_B_Gymnasioy I'm guessing "drh" means Greek drachma, although "drh" doesn't seem to be an official abbreviation for it. Is my assumption correct? And not just that, there are a few problems with the ...

Good, but one major flaw, if a currency symbol is prefixed or suffixed is not dependent on the currency code, but on the country and / or language. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_sign In English, the sign precedes the value (for instance, €10); in most other European languages, the reverse ...

About this title:

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/2 ... _Gymnasioy

I'm guessing "drh" means Greek drachma, although "drh" doesn't seem to be an official abbreviation for it.

Is my assumption correct?

OK, thanks!

According to Martijn's WoS, games Red Ants and Pinbat were originally published on Your Computer magazine covertape. However I identified their type-in listings (you can see them now under "Magazine References"). Moreover I found no evidence Your Computer even had covertapes, except for th...

In the last ZXDB update, we added a new column "currency_id" in table "releases". This new column allows ZXDB to adopt a standard format for prices. You can already see it in action for instance here: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/722/ZX-Spectrum/Bubble_Bobble Now when yo...

I took the liberty to simplify machine options in advanced search. I hope this behaviour will be more intuitive now. The problem with this is you can no longer find the programs which were in the 16/48 Category (E.G. supposedly 2 versions) from the advanced search so these entries can no longer be ...

I own a 48K Zx Spectrum, so when I use the ZXDB engine is because I want to watch games that can be loaded by my Spectrum, so I think that 48K means "Games that are loaded into a Zx Spectrum 48K", regardless if also works in a 16K, or was designed for 128K, or whatever. But that's IMHO I ...

If the authors took the effort to create distinct versions for 16K and 48K, even without extra features, it's because they considered it was worth it. The Auto Line Number utility is a good example. I think our classification should reflect this information. Sorry @Einar Saukas but that is not the ...

And what about this Machine Type? "ZX Spectrum 128K (load in USR0 mode)" For me, this information shouldn't be as a part of the machine type at all. Maybe special Group/Feature would be better for these titles? I agree with that. It's not a machine type. We do need to remember that much o...

I suspect the real concern is not how ZXDB classifies these titles. The actual problem is how site search works. Perhaps something like this: When users search for "Spectrum 16K", they want to see all titles that would work on a Spectrum 16K. Therefore SC should list titles created specifi...

Your defination also states: It typically means a program distributed in 2 different versions (a smaller version for 16K, a more complete version for 48K). Notice I wrote "typically" instead of "exclusively". This was intended as a typical example for the definition in the previ...

Here is another example, with a title listed as 48K, but the instructions show how to run it on either a 16K or 48K Spectrum: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/8029/ZX-Spectrum/Compact https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/page.php?issue_id=190&page=101 It's a single program that works on both 16...

PeterJ wrote: ↑Sun Apr 25, 2021 7:18 pm It doesn't match the criteria though @Einar Saukas.

I think it matches this definition:

"ZX Spectrum 16K/48K means programs created specifically for both ZX Spectrum 16K and Spectrum 48K."