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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.

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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...

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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....

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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.

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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.

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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 ) ...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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This one is hiding from your searches:

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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Roxy Music - Avalon
Klaus Nomi - Total Eclipse
Garbage - Run Baby Run

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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...

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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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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.

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Very good read. Speaking of ocean - " It was responsible for the two titles bundled with the machine and was quick to create 128K versions of all its new games. Later on it was also the first major publisher to drop support for the 48K altogether " Is this true? I hadn't heard it before. ...

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Die Alien Slime

The signature of Andrew Skilleter is visible on the original artwork:

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Celal Kandemiroglu Adidas Championship Tie Break (87) ( https://www.originalvideogameart.com/video-game-illustrators/cel%C3%A2l-kandemiro%C4%9Flu-1953%E2%80%932022-r202/ and http://www.nemmelheim.de/celal/index_galerie.html ) Bill Morrison The Simpsons: Bart vs the Space Mutants (4513) ( https://ww...

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It's on the +3 versions of Best of Elite Vol 1 and Frank Bruno's Big Box. You won't find them here because they're denied.

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Press V for fireball.

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The drawback is that it'll be the best-selling games, so obscurities (especially those that have gone onto a brilliant afterlife recognised as a classic long after the market went 'meh' on original release ) may well never appear. Not just obscurities, there are quite a few high profile games that ...

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So where do those tapes (Bumper Pack 50 - Side 1/2) actually come from? I think it's just somebody's tape that they saved type-ins on. There's Time-A-Climber and River Navigation from Popular Computing Weekly, Rainbow from Sinclair Programs, Diver from Sinclair User and Mult from Personal Computer ...

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