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druellan · Post by **druellan** » Mon Mar 04, 2019 8:01 pm

PeterJ wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2019 7:48 pm EDIT - See later emails from Dave and I

Yes! Already answered Dave

PeterJ · Post by **PeterJ** » Mon Mar 04, 2019 8:10 pm

Thanks [mention]druellan[/mention]

We will look at the options available.

pavero · Post by **pavero** » Mon Mar 04, 2019 8:12 pm

Einar Saukas · Post by **Einar Saukas** » Tue Mar 05, 2019 1:59 am

R-Tape wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2019 7:46 pm Ta dru, Peter has explained why.

PeterJ wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2019 7:42 pm If you search with the 'Advanced Search' on the home page the default is not to include 'Crap Games' You need to switch that with the pull down to include them.
Ahh, well spotted.

That's a good point though, if you click on the link to CGC 2018 via one of the games, it defaults to showing non-crap—for the CSS CGC!

Would it get messy if that was made an exception?

There are 2 different issues here.

1.) When you use regular search or advanced search, crap games are hidden by default. You need to explicitly select crap, if you want crap. This is intentional. If you always got several pages of intentionally crap games (from over 2 decades of CSSCGC) whenever you searched for anything, I'm sure you would get tired of using SC fairly quick.

2.) In the specific case of CSSCGC 2018, 25 games were added to group CSSCGC Crap Games Contest 2018, but only one of them was added to compilation CSSCGC Crap Games Competition 2018. I will fix it in the next ZXDB update.

PeterJ · Post by **PeterJ** » Tue Mar 05, 2019 6:32 am

Thanks [mention]Einar Saukas[/mention]! That will sort it.

R-Tape · Post by **R-Tape** » Tue Mar 05, 2019 9:03 am

PeterJ wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2019 7:50 pm Lets have a think about it. I'm off to have my dinner.

Hope you saved room for today Peter—IT'S PANCAKE DAY!!!

Einar Saukas wrote: ↑Tue Mar 05, 2019 1:59 am 2.) In the specific case of CSSCGC 2018, 25 games were added to group CSSCGC Crap Games Contest 2018, but only one of them was added to compilation CSSCGC Crap Games Competition 2018. I will fix it in the next ZXDB update.

I don't remember adding even 1! That was my mistake, so I should fix that.

Einar Saukas · Post by **Einar Saukas** » Tue Mar 05, 2019 11:56 am

R-Tape wrote: ↑Tue Mar 05, 2019 9:03 amI don't remember adding even 1! That was my mistake, so I should fix that.

Too late, I have already fixed it!

And I'm already blaming you for everything that happens, to save you the trouble of you blaming yourself

druellan · Post by **druellan** » Tue Mar 05, 2019 12:10 pm

Einar Saukas wrote: ↑Tue Mar 05, 2019 1:59 am 1.) When you use regular search or advanced search, crap games are hidden by default. You need to explicitly select crap, if you want crap. This is intentional. If you always got several pages of intentionally crap games (from over 2 decades of CSSCGC) whenever you searched for anything, I'm sure you would get tired of using SC fairly quick.

Thanks Einar. But what if I'm looking for all games from an author or a publisher? I think CRAP might be included there.

R-Tape · Post by **R-Tape** » Tue Mar 05, 2019 2:25 pm

Einar Saukas wrote: ↑Tue Mar 05, 2019 11:56 am Too late, I have already fixed it!

And I'm already blaming you for everything that happens, to save you the trouble of you blaming yourself

Doubly efficient!

I'm not going to let you take my hairshirt or birch twig for flaying myself with, though.

Einar Saukas · Post by **Einar Saukas** » Tue Mar 05, 2019 5:03 pm

druellan wrote: ↑Tue Mar 05, 2019 12:10 pm
Einar Saukas wrote: ↑Tue Mar 05, 2019 1:59 am 1.) When you use regular search or advanced search, crap games are hidden by default. You need to explicitly select crap, if you want crap. This is intentional. If you always got several pages of intentionally crap games (from over 2 decades of CSSCGC) whenever you searched for anything, I'm sure you would get tired of using SC fairly quick.
Thanks Einar. But what if I'm looking for all games from an author or a publisher? I think CRAP might be included there.

That's a good point. Perhaps it makes sense to see all titles including crap, when clicking on an author or publisher name.

What does everybody else think?

R-Tape · Post by **R-Tape** » Tue Mar 05, 2019 6:40 pm

Einar Saukas wrote: ↑Tue Mar 05, 2019 5:03 pm What does everybody else think?

I can see the benefits of having 'all titles' as default, but I'm erring towards keeping things as they are. Either that or having 'all titles', but listing CGC stuff separately in some way. Perhaps all 'notcrap' followed by 'iscrap', and somehow making that segregration clear.

Authors don't do CGC entries in the same spirit as their 'proper' games, and for most of the CGC's history, were never stored as part of the same archive. It wouldn't bother me, but I can imagine some authors don't want to be judged equally on their throwaway fun stuff.

PeterJ · Post by **PeterJ** » Tue Mar 05, 2019 7:03 pm

This evening I will be updating phpBB (The software that drives the forum) from 3.2.2 to 3.2.5

The forum will be become unavailable during this time. I will post here again once the upgrade is complete.

PeterJ · Post by **PeterJ** » Tue Mar 05, 2019 7:18 pm

All done. I have to admit that I find the phpBB upgrade process not intuitive in the slightest. Let me know if you spot any issues.

PeterJ · Post by **PeterJ** » Sat Mar 16, 2019 6:37 pm

[mention]Einar Saukas[/mention] and [mention]R-Tape[/mention] released a new version of ZXDB a few days ago, so here we go!

New entries:
ZX Larry
Moritz to the Moon
Deadzone
Dragonfire ZX
Atlantis
Haunted House
Specword
Upman
Spec Detective
Misifu la Gatita
ISS Emergency
Artillery

Additional material/MIA:
New versions, inlays, adverts for Fireflash
The French version of Sum Scruncher (Croque Nombres). Thanks [mention]druellan[/mention] & [mention]Frankie[/mention]
Extra material and corrections for Santa. Thanks [mention]Frankie[/mention]
Game, screenshots, adverts for The Servant. Thanks [mention]cha05e90[/mention]
Apologies:
There were a few little bugs fixed, but we're some way off completing them all. This is ongoing.
[mention]Frankie[/mention]—your excellent MIA stuff is being added in chunks. Some of it was added this time, and the rest will follow.

Lots of inlays from [mention]pavero[/mention]

Frankie · Post by **Frankie** » Sat Mar 16, 2019 6:50 pm

PeterJ wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2019 6:37 pm @Frankie—your excellent MIA stuff is being added in chunks. Some of it was added this time, and the rest will follow.

Great, thanks

Is there a reason why the Croque Nombres file is claimed to be a TAP file, shouldn't it be names as a TZX file?

PeterJ · Post by **PeterJ** » Sat Mar 16, 2019 6:58 pm

OK, the issue is that it has been zipped with the wrong extension. The file inside is a TZX. We will sort next time.

R-Tape · Post by **R-Tape** » Sat Mar 16, 2019 9:15 pm

It wasn't a mistake—despite actually being a TZX file, it felt more like a TAP file in essence.

It will be corrected in the next update, but it definitely was not a mistake.

pavero · Post by **pavero** » Sat Mar 16, 2019 10:36 pm

druellan · Post by **druellan** » Sat Mar 16, 2019 10:41 pm

Seems that I made a mistake with Dead Zone, and I sent you a running screen instead of the loading screen

Here it is the correct one -> https://www.dropbox.com/s/16z23ytvpr88y ... 1.scr?dl=1

8BitAG · Post by **8BitAG** » Sat Mar 16, 2019 11:07 pm

PeterJ wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2019 6:37 pm New entries:
ISS Emergency

I like the fact that we're recording the roles in projects in a more detailed way now... but, erm... can I have the code credit, please?

R-Tape · Post by **R-Tape** » Sat Mar 16, 2019 11:53 pm

8BitAG wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2019 11:07 pm I like the fact that we're recording the roles in projects in a more detailed way now... but, erm... can I have the code credit, please?

There were a few role choices available. PM sent.

druellan · Post by **druellan** » Sun Mar 17, 2019 12:04 am

The "updates" section seems not to be working right now:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.php?cat=100

PeterJ · Post by **PeterJ** » Sun Mar 17, 2019 6:10 am

Thanks [mention]druellan[/mention]

Must have been the changes in the last update. Will try and look today.

Peter

PeterJ · Post by **PeterJ** » Sun Mar 17, 2019 8:08 am

All fixed [mention]druellan[/mention]

There goes my Sunday morning lie in

Only joking, I was woken up by the cats at six o'clock.

Frankie · Post by **Frankie** » Sun Mar 17, 2019 10:52 am

About the entry Spec Detective, that is from publisher Top Spec

Spectrum Computing

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