Spectrum Computing

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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

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...

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:

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.

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. ...

Die Alien Slime

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

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...

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.

Press V for fireball.

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 ...

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 ...

Finally, the tapes in BumperPack4.tzx.zip are named thus: Bumper Pack 50 - Side 1.tzx Bumper Pack 50 - Side 2.tzx Are they even the right tapes for this title? Those tape images are from somewhere else. The "40 great games" comes from the advert but the advert is for all the bumper packs....

I think we can agree to disagree on that one @StooB. Powering off. I didn't write your search code, I'm just explaining why it returns the results it does using the data it has. If you don't like the results change the code. It's your site. Also, change the publisher of Chain Reaction to Durell. Fo...

So if I'm Joe Blogs searching for Durell under publisher, it won't appear. That doesn't seem sensible to me at all. Joe Bloggs should be using the general search, not the advanced search. If you're going to specifically search for Durell as publisher then it shouldn't appear as Elite is the publish...

Thanks @StooB, Just used advanced search with the title name, and publisher as durell and I got no results. Which is the correct result if you're using the advanced search rather than the general one. If you use advanced search for publisher Elite and author Durell you get Chain Reaction and Spitfi...

PeterJ wrote: ↑Mon Oct 02, 2023 7:03 pm Thanks @StooB,

Would that always be the case though?

As long as nobody changes the authors in zxdb, and nobody changes how the search algorithm currently works.

PeterJ wrote: ↑Mon Oct 02, 2023 5:54 pm I'm not following this thread in detail, but I would have thought the focus should be around what 'joe public' would search for.

The games authors are listed as Durell in the database so it will always come up on a search for Durell regardless of what the publisher is listed as.

Rorthron wrote: ↑Mon Oct 02, 2023 4:18 pm But if the logic is flawed, please explain why, citing sources to support your claims.

I don't need to explain or cite sources - I'm not the one calling for the current publishers to be changed!

On the other hand, your approach has been identified as requiring changes to: Rex, The Fury: Martech>US Gold All the Ultimate titles: Ultimate>ACG (?) All of the later Imagine games: Imagine>Ocean (?) Etc You identified these changes using flawed logic that says all these situations are the same wh...

toot_toot wrote: ↑Mon Oct 02, 2023 1:16 pm So you’re basing it on an address from the 1980s

Yes. It's not unreasonable to assume that a company that puts it's address on a product is the publisher of that product.

A distributed by Electronic Arts label. In fact, it’s even bigger than the Elite text mention on the Chain Reaction cover. But they’re both listed as originally published by Martech in the DB. If we’re going with the same rules as Chain Reaction, then does that not mean The Fury and Rex should be d...