R-Tape wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 2:03 pm
Can anyone find any clues to author names and year of release for the 5 x Let's Compute! Club games?
Had a trawl through the magazines on archive.org. The first issue was BBC Archimedes and Electon only, but they expanded to various other micros including the Spectrum from issue 2 onwards (the Lets Compute! Club order form references spectrum tape and disk options from issue 2)
There are 12 which were released between August 1990 and July 1991, so I'd say 1990 is 'likely' to be the year.
Not the foggiest on the author(s) and there is no mention of any of the games in the magazine
[mention]R-Tape[/mention] it would make sense to have some sort of process for this as it feels like the scans would have gone missing if I'd not checked up on this (which tbf you did mention in PM at the time) and then bothered [mention]pavero[/mention] on Facebook (Thanks again!).
blueowl0708 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 04, 2019 11:04 pm
@R-Tape it would make sense to have some sort of process for this as it feels like the scans would have gone missing if I'd not checked up on this (which tbf you did mention in PM at the time) and then bothered @pavero on Facebook (Thanks again!).
Yep you're totally right. Apologies, and thanks Pav (though you can equally well pester Pav here rather than FB! ). We're looking at getting help with older mia and hires inlays, but for the moment I now know the process, so will be able to fill in.
Compared to the Arctic version, it has a different loading screen and the font is heavier. The credits on the Arctic version also suggest that they updated the text (likely corrections/typos but who knows?). Only reference I can find to it is a review in 'Your Spectrum' which mentions the various typos on the inlay (including the title of the game ) so is likely to be this version.
DB link: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=6133
Rather randomly I've been researching the Curse of the Seven Faces today; having been attracted by a mention that it featured a "ramsave" system.
The game was originally briefly published by Classic Computing (which I presume was the author Alan McDonald self-publishing) but was soon snapped up for publication by Artic Computing.
However, it seems like the standalone Artic Computing version may never have been released; the title was licensed to Imperial Software.
The Assemblage compilation appearance comes later than the Imperial Software one.