Magazine Scores
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Nice one chaps...!
I didn't realise that ACE scored their games out of 1000...
I didn't realise that ACE scored their games out of 1000...
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I was surprised by that too.
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How about including scores of reviews from Spanish magazine Micro Hobby? It was arguably the most important Spectrum-related magazine outside of the UK, with lots of excellent technical and programming articles as well as game coverage, and it also reviewed a number titles that were not released there.
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Hi [mention]Alessandro[/mention]Alessandro wrote: ↑Mon Jun 03, 2019 7:55 pm How about including scores of reviews from Spanish magazine Micro Hobby? It was arguably the most important Spectrum-related magazine outside of the UK, with lots of excellent technical and programming articles as well as game coverage, and it also reviewed a number titles that were not released there.
I for one love Micro Hobby, and I wish we had something like it in the UK.
The magazines are available as scans for quite a few reviews but the indexes are incomplete, and ZXSR focuses on English magazines.
As an example take a look at Herbert's Dummy Run in the magazine references section, you will see reviews and tips from Micro Hobby included and links to the scans
If anyone would be interested in collating the information I'm sure [mention]Einar Saukas[/mention] would be happy to include it. It's a big task but would be great to have all the information, including as as you suggest scores included.
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I still think it would be a great idea to have our own Spectrum computing scores in each entry, making available to the registered members of SC vote for the games
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That's still on the cards [mention]Ivanzx[/mention]. Just trying to find the right solution.
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Yup, I'm willing to bet a few people looked at the scans to find the mistake
ZX Spectrum Reviews REST API: http://zxspectrumreviews.co.uk/
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To be honest I never even thought about non-English magazines. I'm quite happy to add them to ZXSR as long as the scans are available. They'll probably be full of spelling errors though - the OCRing is never perfect and I usually mop up the errors - but English is my only language...PeterJ wrote: ↑Mon Jun 03, 2019 8:30 pmHi @AlessandroAlessandro wrote: ↑Mon Jun 03, 2019 7:55 pm How about including scores of reviews from Spanish magazine Micro Hobby? It was arguably the most important Spectrum-related magazine outside of the UK, with lots of excellent technical and programming articles as well as game coverage, and it also reviewed a number titles that were not released there.
I for one love Micro Hobby, and I wish we had something like it in the UK.
The magazines are available as scans for quite a few reviews but the indexes are incomplete, and ZXSR focuses on English magazines.
As an example take a look at Herbert's Dummy Run in the magazine references section, you will see reviews and tips from Micro Hobby included and links to the scans
If anyone would be interested in collating the information I'm sure @Einar Saukas would be happy to include it. It's a big task but would be great to have all the information, including as as you suggest scores included.
Don't hold your breath though (I've been doing this about 15 years to give some perspective, but have vastly improved my processes). There's still Personal Computer Games to finish off, then: Micro Adventurer, Personal Computer News, Sinclair Programs and Your Computer to do first. Those are just the mags I have as OCR'd PDF's (thanks to the god that is @KenD), there's loads more listed in ZXDB that I don't have scans of yet.
ZX Spectrum Reviews REST API: http://zxspectrumreviews.co.uk/
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I've not seen [mention]KenD[/mention] around for ages, and his site was last updated in 2017. He his indeed a legend. Anyone know if he is OK?
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Apologies for reviving an old thread, and for the lack of updates to RetroPDFs; I took a bit of a break after getting far too angry with a certain owner of a well-known Spectrum website. The hopefully good news is I should have an update to the site before the end of 2020, and I'm still seeding all the torrents (6Tb so far!). Thanks for the kind words, I'm still here!
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Great to see you back Ken! ZXSR would be nothing, absolutely nothing, without your amazing work on RetroPDF's.
ZX Spectrum Reviews REST API: http://zxspectrumreviews.co.uk/
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Here, here! Your PDFs have been much appreciated on many long train or plane journeys. Thanks [mention]KenD[/mention]!