What does the u in uMIA mean?

[Cosmium]

Might be a silly question but I can't seem to find what that u before the Missing In Action means, even after having a look around!?

[Ralf]

Unknown MIA
( which is Unknown Missing In Action)

It's an old jargon coming yet from World of Spectrum.

MIA is a game that we don't have any copy on our website but we know that it existed (or was planned) and so have a database entry for it.

uMIA is a game that we don't a copy and we don't have a database entry for it, because nobody here has heard about it.

MIAS are in the database as entries without downloads, uMIAs aren't.

[Ivanzx]

I thought it was Unlisted, but quite similar in its meaning

[Cosmium]

Ahh, makes sense. Thanks for the explanations

[Alessandro]

For years I believed the "u" stood for "micro" or "unreleased".

It was a true epiphany to discover its real meaning.

[Gilby]

It's definately unlisted

Steve

[Ralf]

Welcome to forums [mention]Gilby[/mention] !

Speaking of MIAs, if I may ask, are you still dealing with them? Are you and other old preservation team members (Andrew Barker, Guy Bearman) still active?

[Ivanzx]

It's definately unlisted

Steve

I knew I was right!

Welcome here Steve!

I think he may have some surprises to be shown...

[Gilby]

Hi Ralf,

Yes I'm still active, in fact I've never stopped preserving stuff... There's a ton of stuff to release.

I've started by uploading inlay and cassette scans to Pavel via Dropbox, which he will upload to archive.org and which hopefully get processed (rotating, cropping and occasionally stitching images together) and included in ZXDB. And a lot of the old gang are still active too, maybe with the exception of Andrew Barker.