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Following feedback from [mention]PaulJ[/mention], [mention]Ralf[/mention], [mention]R-Tape[/mention] and others Ricardo (4thRock) has kindly made some changes to the home page which now looks like this (notice the extra button!):

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Updates takes you to a page which shows the last 1,000 titles (This may change to 250 depending on database load) added to ZXDB, and also gives you a link to the weekly updates page.

Releases takes you to a page which shows you the latest new games releases.

As mentioned before what this won't do is show you a title where an additional file has been added. The only way of doing this would be a database compare between the newest and previous versions of ZXDB. That is a lot of work for little benefit (unless someone feels strongly enough and would like to volunteer)

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The latest ZXDB has now been applied. Don't forget the new links on the homepage which give you the last 1,000 entries added to the database and a link to the 'Site Updates' Page.

The last updated date on the homepage will be updated to 05 April as soon as I sort out my issue with Filezilla.

Thanks always to all those involved.

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.php?cat=100

New Entries: Files: * Electronic magazines
  • ZX-News
  • On-Line
  • Nicron
  • Maximum
  • New Special Playgames
  • Micro
  • Marazm
  • Life
  • KrNews
  • Gorodok
  • Fantastic
  • Cossackos
  • City
  • Body
General thanks to Dario Ruellan (screenshots, communications)
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Great!

Some corrections to the stuff I was involved with:

1.
ZX Spacies!
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=33461

is a demo version. It's not completed, you cannot die, shields aren't destroyed etc.

2.
Nostalgie
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=33468

is actually a compilation of 4 games run from common menu.

You can see the titles after loading up the disk:

Forestland Zone
Small Cowboy
Labirint Two
Town Zone

Press 1-4 to start the appropriate game.

I could attach downloads and screenshots here if required.
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Thanks Ralf,

Spacies: i forgot to add a "demo" comment by the file download, will sort that.

I added "Nostalgie" after looking through Epsilon's page on that Russian site, I should have waited until you gave more info before I gave it an ID. Any screenshots & info you can give (either by email or in the old/new game thread) would be splendid.
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[mention]PaulJ[/mention] has been most helpful in starting to catalogue the reviews in his Spectrum Show videos. Series one is now completed and where a game is reviewed you will see an additional link under 'Related Links' called 'The Spectrum Show (Youtube) (English)'. The link will take you to the YouTube page for the video and to the time when the review starts. Most impressive!

A good example is one of Paul's own creations:

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=27506

Thanks to Paul for doing this work and to [mention]Einar Saukas[/mention] for incorporating it within ZXDB.
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A really cool idea!
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I added "Nostalgie" after looking through Epsilon's page on that Russian site, I should have waited until you gave more info before I gave it an ID. Any screenshots & info you can give (either by email or in the old/new game thread) would be splendid.
And here are game images and screenshots for Nostalgie and another game from Alexei - Garden Zone.
I saved all games from Nostalgie as snapshots. Maybe it would be a good idea to make separate entries for each of them? Please decide.

For Garden Zone I added autobooting to .trd image

The download:
https://www.sendspace.com/file/l45duu
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The update released by [mention]Einar Saukas[/mention] yesterday has been applied. These are the main changes (courtesy of [mention]R-Tape[/mention].

New entries and files:
Aeon
Murdac
Forestland Zone
Small Cowboy
Labirint 2
Town Zone
Tumitak z Podziemnych Korytarzy
ZX Digger 1
Sapper
Sokoban
Snake

Many new ZX81 screenshots (Thanks [mention]kolbeck[/mention])
Replacement screenshot for Pippo (thanks Dario Ruellan)
Replacement screenshot for Manager (thanks Anonymous)
Downloadable files for the Electronic Magazines in the previous ZXDB update

Don't forgot all these updates are also recorded on the new site updates page.
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The latest update from [mention]Einar Saukas[/mention] has been uploaded. Thanks to all those who contributed to this one.

These are the new entries:

Attribute 2 You - New demo from MatGubbins
Monte Dorado - never released, rediscovered Text Adventure by Dario Ruellan
Pixel Quest Zero - magazine "Espectro" exclusive
Tea-Leaf Ted
Snake now split into Snake and Python
Davey-Duds loves peas (2017 AGD game)

A full history of recent updates is available here.
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Coolio, btw for some reason Pixel Quest Zero and Tea Leaf Ted are listed in the "ACE" Series, which is not in any way correct!

Looks like some brackets need closing (or whatever the hell it is you PHP guys do).
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R-Tape wrote: Sun Apr 22, 2018 9:35 pm Coolio, btw for some reason Pixel Quest Zero and Tea Leaf Ted are listed in the "ACE" Series, which is not in any way correct!

Looks like some brackets need closing (or whatever the hell it is you PHP guys do).
It was an error in my script, sorry!

It will be corrected in the next ZXDB update.
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For shame.
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In the interests of transparency just to let you know that I have deleted a post from MrPixel from the New Software Thread (with his agreement) as the game has not been released yet.
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PeterJ wrote: Tue Apr 17, 2018 8:36 pm Replacement screenshot for Pippo (thanks Dario Ruellan)
You're going to hate me, but the loading screen is still wrong :lol:
The thing is, when the game finishes loading, it starts a cool palette rotation effect, that's why there is a "blue" version of the screen, but the correct one is the pink version:

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I will fix it in the next ZXDB update. Thanks for reporting it!
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Einar Saukas wrote: Thu Apr 26, 2018 1:00 pm I will fix it in the next ZXDB update. Thanks for reporting it!
For info (to avoid duplication from you or Dario) I've just sent you the SCREEN$ with the correct, plump, pink, pippo.
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R-Tape wrote: Thu Apr 26, 2018 9:15 pm
Einar Saukas wrote: Thu Apr 26, 2018 1:00 pm I will fix it in the next ZXDB update. Thanks for reporting it!
For info (to avoid duplication from you or Dario) I've just sent you the SCREEN$ with the correct, plump, pink, pippo.
Don't we already have the correct screen?

I understand we just need to remove the blue Pippo and keep the magenta Pippo here:

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=3733

Correct?
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I'm an idiot.

(Correct)
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ZXDB Update 03/05/2018

New entries: ROVR, OPZ, Thoroughly Modern Willy, Gem Slider, Fro, Ninjakul in the AUIC Temple, Capital Cities Tester.
New groups: Spectrum computing minigame competition, speccy.pl party 2018.1
SCREEN$ and files: Komplex City, some CSS CGC 2010 games

Apologies: [mention]Ralf[/mention] (your Russian uMIA will be next time), [mention]Alessandro[/mention] (the missed Apulija 13 v2.01 update, will also be next time)

Remember a full history of updates is available here.

I'm so hoping a digital version of Ninjakul in the AUIC Temple is made available to purchase soon.

https://youtu.be/i66W3GBBYn4
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We have been lucky enough to have a developer working on allowing more advanced search options within the main site. The first site improvement from this is an A-Z games listing which is available from the home page.

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The placement of the A-Z will probably change, but I wanted to give you the oportunity to play with it. More options will be coming soon.

Hopefully this will be useful for [mention]PeteProdge[/mention]
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We have added magazine posters to the additional downloads section. A good example is the Sinclair User poster for Target Renegade.

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=4087
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Great!

Would you consider doing a search results view which would show just titles with screenshots, with 3, 4 or 5 titles or screenshots in a row?

Something like this, just with working screenshots ;)

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek ... loadpics=0

It was very useful for me when it worked properly, I could quickly browse hundreds of titles and spot some interesting ones
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Looks great, don't forget the titles with numbers
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Thanks [mention]MatGubbins[/mention] . Yes, we are looking to include those soon.
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