Spectrum Computing

StooB wrote: ↑Sun Dec 23, 2018 3:31 pm It's a .png but it expects a .scr

Yes, that the problem. The frontend code is OK, it's just expecting a SCR.

R-Tape wrote: ↑Sun Dec 23, 2018 2:14 pm

g0blinish wrote: ↑Sun Dec 23, 2018 10:41 am https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... l_id=15733
from "Running screen" for FilloMania

Hmm. It shows up correctly on the main page for FilloMania. @4thRock, any idea?

Dave, you registered this file in ZXDB as "screen dump" although it's a PNG image. That's the reason SC isn't rendering it properly!

It will be fixed in next ZXDB update. Although it would be better to replace it with a proper screen dump.

Ah sorry. I even made a mental note of it, but must have forgotten.

I chose g0blinish's png in this case because it looked much better than the .scr I made.

Missing game...

Doctor Goo and the Wobegon Affair
1988
William Young
Spectrum Adventure Exchange Club

Created using the Quill

Parts one and two were published on Issue 22 and 23 of the SAEC's Spectrum Adventurer tapezine. The remaining parts don't appear to have been completed.

"Dr Goo has been summoned by an intergalactic distress signal to the planet Wobegon. Can you help the Wobies to rid their planet of the awful Thugs?"

1. Runestone. The original Games Workshop version was released in 1985, not 1986. (The Firebird release is from 1986.)
2. Runestone, Key of Hope, Tower of Despair, Talisman, Chaos and D-Day. Ad in White Dwarf 65 (Jun 85) p55: https://archive.org/stream/WhiteDwarf05 ... 4/mode/1up.
3. The Secret River, The Wizard's Citadel. Ad in WD62 (Feb 85) p4: https://archive.org/stream/WhiteDwarf05 ... 3/mode/1up
4. Micro Adventurer magazine. Ad in WD63 (Mar 85) p45: https://archive.org/stream/WhiteDwarf05 ... 4/mode/1up

A bunch of adverts from White Dwarf:

1. Apocalypse and all three expansions, Nebula, Rebelstar Raiders, First Empire. Ad in White Dwarf 51 (March 1984) p46: https://archive.org/stream/WhiteDwarf05 ... 5/mode/1up
2. Micro Adventurer magazine. Ad in White Dwarf 52 (April 1984) p50: https://archive.org/stream/WhiteDwarf05 ... 9/mode/1up
3. Micro Adventurer magazine. Ad in White Dwarf 53 (May 1984) p49: https://archive.org/stream/WhiteDwarf05 ... 8/mode/1up
4. Micro Adventurer magazine. Ad in White Dwarf 54 (June 1984) p8: https://archive.org/stream/WhiteDwarf05 ... 7/mode/1up
5. The Secret River, The Wizard's Citadel. Ad in White Dwarf 59 (November 1984) p5: https://archive.org/stream/WhiteDwarf05 ... 4/mode/1up
6. Eureka! Ad in White Dwarf 59 (November 1984) p21: https://archive.org/stream/WhiteDwarf05 ... 0/mode/1up
7. Tower of Despair, D-Day, Battlecars. Ad in White Dwarf 59 (November 1984) p55: https://archive.org/stream/WhiteDwarf05 ... 4/mode/1up
9. Micro Adventurer magazine. Ad in White Dwarf 60 (December 1984) p10: https://archive.org/stream/WhiteDwarf05 ... 9/mode/1up
10. Doomdark's Revenge. Ad in White Dwarf 60 (December 1984) p16: https://archive.org/stream/WhiteDwarf05 ... 5/mode/1up
11. Tower of Despair, D-Day, Battlecars. Ad in White Dwarf 60 (December 1984) p55: https://archive.org/stream/WhiteDwarf05 ... 4/mode/1up

Thanks [mention]Rorthron[/mention]

I will need to speak with [mention]Einar Saukas[/mention] on this one as we will need to add White Dwarf as a new magazine, so I don't know if that will add complexity.

I'm also working with Einar on getting Personal Computer News sorted.if anyone has high-quality JPEG scans of some of the issues that weren't in the WoS archive that would be useful. There are copies on archive.org and RetroPDFs, but I will need to look at the quality

Aye, can I just add to Peter's comment that things are in flux at the moment. I've only just now started to look at the new ZX-Ed system, and it's really not clear (to me, yet) how I'm going to fit certain corrections in, or just report them on.

We'll try and make the next update as complete as possible, but the "as possible" bit might have to be emphasised

Microfair Madness
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=6682

The links to snapshots are incorrect.

The file linked to part 2 of the game, is actually part 3 of the game.

The snapshot to part 2 isn't actually provided on the page.

Here are the correct snapshots...

Microfair Madness 128K (Part 1) : http://8bitag.com/games/snapshots/MICRO1.Z80
Microfair Madness 128K (Part 2) : http://8bitag.com/games/snapshots/SMOK.Z80
Microfair Madness 128K (Part 3) : http://8bitag.com/games/snapshots/MICRO2.Z80

Polearn
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=10059

is listed as being Quilled.

It is a 128K game, so can't be Quilled.

An analysis of the database shows it was produced with the Professional Adventure Writer. (The mentions in Crash support this)

The copyright date on the loading screen is 1989
PJ sent code to ES 28-06-2020

Life of Crime
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=15519

was produced using the Professional Adventure Writer (not the Quill as currently listed)

Daemon
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=10759

As the description says, Daemon is an early version of The Haunting *but* it was not produced with the Quill. It was produced with the Professional Adventure Writer.

A Beginners Guide to Adventures
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... id=2000049

was published in 1990 (not 1991)

The entry of Sorcery (Virgin Games) shows a strange (at least for me) loading screen:



Instead of the classic

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/pub/sin ... orcery.scr

The first one seems from a re-release or fan-made version.

Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Wed Jan 16, 2019 10:24 am The first one seems from a re-release or fan-made version.

That one's from the "improved" Now Games compilation version.

The Lost Dragon
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=6611

Under authors/contributors... the person "TAM" is credited...
http://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.ph ... l_id=14209

TAM is actually Tom Frost, who is already credited as the author...
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... l_id=14656

So the entry/reference for TAM needs to be removed and can be deleted from ZXDB.

[mention]richl[/mention] posted this in the 'Wanted:Inlays' thread...



According to the game entry, the authors were Brian Howarth and John Blacow but the inlay says Howarth and Mike Woodruff instead.

Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Fri Jan 18, 2019 6:57 pm According to the game entry, the authors were Brian Howarth and John Blacow but the inlay says Howarth and Mike Woodruff instead.

The in-game credits, list the author as Brian Howarth with artwork by John Blacow, so the ZXDB entry is correct.

So just adding Mike Woodruff maybe?

Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Fri Jan 18, 2019 7:04 pm So just adding Mike Woodruff maybe?

Perhaps, although in other games Mike (Michael) Woodroffe got a writing credit in the actual game, when he was involved... Perhaps they did the inlay first, before the game. I mean... they spelt his name wrong, for starters!

If a credit *is* felt appropriate, then the spelling needs to be corrected.
http://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.ph ... el_id=9884

The Cholo PDF instructions are actually for the BBC Micro.

The programming credits for Gyron (the "compilstion") are missing. They should be:

Ricardo Pinto, Dominic Prior, Philip Machan, Mark Whigton (all Torus)

https://archive.org/stream/sinclair-use ... 7/mode/1up

Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Wed Jan 16, 2019 10:24 am The entry of Sorcery (Virgin Games) shows a strange (at least for me) loading screen:



Instead of the classic

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/pub/sin ... orcery.scr

The first one seems from a re-release or fan-made version.

Fixed. It will show the original loading screen first, after the next ZXDB update.

The game...

Loony Bin
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=16874

is not an "arcade adventure"...

it's a "text adventure" made with The Quill.

(Tim Gilberts has just discovered it in the "Gilsoft archive" )

(The adverts also refer to it being an adventure)