https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=6545
Unlike its sequel, it wasn't created using PAW. It was produce with Les & Clive's own system.
Well, while we're at it... the date for the GI Games re-release is wrong too (see the document in the Dogboy thread)...StooB wrote: ↑Tue Dec 11, 2018 6:30 pm The Snow Queen (6991)
- originally released by St Bride's School (13696) with the Mosaic Publishing (10034) re-release in 1986
source 1: advert for St Bride's version: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/mag.php ... 87&page=81
source 2: re-release confirmed by Mike Gerrard in YS June 86: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/mag.php ... 27&page=65
As an aside, there is a real person (a fairly famous politician and academic) called Roderick MacFarquhar
Well I'm certainly not posting any findings to WoS any longer which I have in the past. Doesn't seem to be any point, so my full support is now to ZXDB.richl wrote: ↑Tue Dec 18, 2018 2:30 pm To add to the Laser Squad info above, I remember doing some poking around with the various releases and expansion pack etc. last year. I posted all my corrections/findings into this thread:
https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/ ... ion/55057/
It's a shame that there's probably a ton of other fixes that people have submitted over on the WOS forums during the post-handover period that'll eventually get lost as and when it finally sinks into the mire but whenever I see anything that I vaguely recall posting something about I try and post it here now instead. We should have some sort of Christmas appeal for people to resubmit info here and try and educate others to not waste their time posting on WOS. It's a shame as people genuinely want to help but since no-one other than a blurred circle knows what the Big Secret Plan™ is you'd be better off sending corrections to Santa.... or Einar as I think he now likes to be called
Issue 19 of Spectrum Adventurer (the Spectrum Adventure Exchange Club tapezine) also features a game called...8BitAG wrote: ↑Fri Dec 21, 2018 11:58 am Similarly, issue 8 of Spectrum Adventurer https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=23008
features the Quilled text adventure: 'A Special Christmas Adventure'
which needs an entry in ZXDB
Hi, it was a question, but please send the files over. Thank you.
Kind of, because not only the magazine might reprint the code (with permission or not), but also the readers started to contribute, and back then there was no way to check if the game had a legitimate author.
Another amendment to the Apocalypse entry:Rorthron wrote: ↑Thu Dec 20, 2018 3:25 pm A few proposed corrections to the entry for Apocalypse:
1. It has an AKA that is not listed: "Apocalypse: The Game of Nuclear Devastation"
2. It was officially licensed from a boardgame by Games Workshop. No licence is shown in the entry (though there is a link to the relevelant Wikipedia page). I presume the licence should be listed.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse_(board_game)
3. The Command Software release is from 1987, not 1983.
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/mag.php ... 19&page=12
4. Expansion packs are mentioned in comments. Should they not be included as part of a series?
5. The authors are listed in SC as "Dino" and "Joey", which is confirmed by the in-game credits. However, the Dino on SC is labelled "(Denmark)" and only otherwise associated with much later demos. The Dino behind Apocalypse was apparently based in England. They could be the same person, but I suspect two different people might have been conflated. Does anyone know more about who Dino and Joey were?
6. Dino and Joey are listed as working for Games Workshop. I think this is incorrect and should be deleted.
At some point they did work in the SLUG cooperative. Crash 9 suggests this was after they worked for Red Shift, but that might not be entirely accurate:
"A series of problems at Red Shift earlier this year [198x] led to the departure of most of the programmers to the SLUG co-op."
SLUG did subsequently do work for Games Workshop, but it seems that at the time of Apocalypse's original release, there was no formal association.
The authors of Apocalypse are stated to be SLUG on the Talisman box, but this might be a retrospective rewrite:
https://ia600604.us.archive.org/zipview ... x-Back.jpg
(SLUG are also authors of Rebelstar Raiders according to the Talisman box, but are not listed in SC.)
6. The link to PCN p370 does not work (and I am fairly sure PCN never had 370 pages!):
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/mag.php ... 0&page=370
7. The Your Computer link is also not working: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/mag.php ... 6&page=134
8. The labels for the Crash magazine references are an inconsistent mixture: some say LivingGuide and some Review. They are all to the same Living Guide comment, so should have a consistent label.