The Globe

[R-Tape]

Would the best solution be to remove the TZX, and separating the author IDs for the mysterious J. Wilson and Zenobi John?

There would be no need for a disclaimer then.

[Einar Saukas]

I'm assigning this title to a separate author J. Wilson, but also adding a disclaimer. Otherwise people will frequently contact us to point out we are missing the Zenobi credit.

Instead of removing the other file, I'm marking it as "hacked (probably)". I don't think we should remove a file unless we can be 100% sure it's not authentic. Also if it's removed, I bet people will also contact us to provide "the original tape that we missed".

[8BitAG]

Yeah, unless all the other sites change their references that is certainly an issue.

We can be 100% sure it's not authentic but it is quite an interesting artefact in itself. Certainly a cautionary tale when it comes to the whole process of archiving. Luckily John is still around to set the record straight.

(If I had more spare time, I'd fix the bugs in the adventure so it could be completed.)

[R-Tape]

Aye, agreed. Just fulfilling my role by of giving a naff solution that Einar can replace with a better one

(If I had more spare time, I'd fix the bugs in the adventure so it could be completed.)

Is it so flawed? I hacked it to look for clues regarding the author, and saw none, but it's clearly a full game with a congrats sequence.

As for the author: we can probably (but not definitely) rule out Jackie Wilson, who died in 1984, but not Jocky, who outlived the Speccy's commercial era to pass on in 2012.

It's a start.

[8BitAG]

Is it so flawed? I hacked it to look for clues regarding the author, and saw none, but it's clearly a full game with a congrats sequence.

Yeah, both John and I have been having a good look at it and we've found the issues that Terri mentions in the partial solution here...

http://solutionarchive.com/file/id%2C1311/

...namely there's no routine in place to create the small cylinder, you can't get to location 153 and you need to carry the sword to trigger a lot of the actions.

[8BitAG]

John has put up a blog post about the game...

http://www.zenobi.co.uk/2018/10/global-mystery.html

✓ Reviewed

[PeterJ]

All bug reports in this thread were already applied to ZXDB database, therefore I'm now locking this thread for convenience.