Little bugs in the database 2

[R-Tape]

The Dark Hospital is 128K minimum model, not 48K.

QAOP fails as a result (gives 'out of memory' message). The TAP works as 128K in an emulator.

That was a mistake on my part. Sorry to give you another job dru!

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[moroz1999]

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... el_id=4628 - Falcon is a person, musician from Shahty, Russia.

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[moroz1999]

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... el_id=4638
Fantasy (Fantasy Software) is a group from Kirov, Russia.

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[Einar Saukas]

I also don't know why these entries are marked as MIA if they were releases as part of a compilation only, and the latter is already preserved.

Let's see if @Einar Saukas can solve the mystery

Whenever a game entry didn't have a playable file, it was classified as M.I.A. in the original WoS internal files... even if a playable file never existed because it was originally released as part of a compilation.

When this information was imported into ZXDB, it was kept this way. I will fix it in a future release.

Since SC doesn't display "M.I.A." in these cases, I didn't recall to fix it earlier. Thanks for pointing this out!

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[druellan]

When this information was imported into ZXDB, it was kept this way. I will fix it in a future release.

Perfect! Thanks Einar!

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[moroz1999]

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... el_id=4084
E-Mage is a group from Grodno, Belarus.

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[moroz1999]

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... el_id=5324 - Not Georgy Kwiring, but Grigoriy Kviring.

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[moroz1999]

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... l_id=18956
Author: Darklight
Group: Ghostown
Real name: Szymek Paluchowski
Location: Poland

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[pavero]

Diamond Man was release in 1995, how we can see from the last level of the game.
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=27221
https://maps.speccy.cz/map.php?id=DiamondManPart3

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[moroz1999]

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... el_id=2870 - Cristiano Cremonini (Italy)
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... el_id=2869 - Cristiano Cremolini
Seems to be the same person: both produced similar-looking adventures, same publisher.

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[Stefan]

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... el_id=2870 - Cristiano Cremonini (Italy)
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... el_id=2869 - Cristiano Cremolini
Seems to be the same person: both produced similar-looking adventures, same publisher.

Since my Italian only just orders me a pizza, Multiface shows string "Cristiano Cremonini" at address 0x5e26 after loading Proxima.

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[8BitAG]

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... el_id=2870 - Cristiano Cremonini (Italy)
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... el_id=2869 - Cristiano Cremolini
Seems to be the same person: both produced similar-looking adventures, same publisher.

Since my Italian only just orders me a pizza, Multiface shows string "Cristiano Cremonini" at address 0x5e26 after loading Proxima.

Oooh... good spotting, both of you. We don't have those other two games in the database at CASA for some reason, either.

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[8BitAG]

Since my Italian only just orders me a pizza, Multiface shows string "Cristiano Cremonini" at address 0x5e26 after loading Proxima.

Name confirmed as Cremonini from the actual issue of the associated magazine...
http://laxdelzx.altervista.org/Lnr/Lnr_ ... ta_n51.pdf

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[8BitAG]

This author...
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... bel_id=845

"Andevi"

Is credited as "A. De Vivo" for the game La Perla in Load'n'Run issue 19... http://laxdelzx.altervista.org/Lnr/Lnr_ ... ta_n19.pdf

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[Alessandro]

This author...
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... bel_id=845

"Andevi"

Is credited as "A. De Vivo" for the game La Perla in Load'n'Run issue 19... http://laxdelzx.altervista.org/Lnr/Lnr_ ... ta_n19.pdf

Andevi is a pseudonym of Andrea, or Antonio, De Vivo in fact. I remember that adventure, I even solved it back then.

By the way, Castel Basic was first published in Load 'n' Run issue 20, October 1985. The game screen shows the later Spanish translation.

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[8BitAG]

Operazione Ladro
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=26389

The corresponding Load'n'Run lists the authors as M. & A. Salvi

http://laxdelzx.altervista.org/Lnr/Lnr_ ... ta_n30.pdf

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[Alessandro]

As already mentioned here, some programs from Load 'n' Run are incorrectly listed as demos, while they are simply advertising. This error was carried over from the WoS database.

Campagna abbonamenti means "subscription campaign" and shows what you should do in order to subscribe to the magazine. Pubblicità simply means "advertising" and is in fact an ad for a shop in Milan offering to expand a 16K Spectrum to 48K for a "fabulous" price.

On a side note, that was the same shop which was one of the first to distribute pirated software with changed names and under its own brand; they even sold an unofficial Italian translation of the Horizons tape which came with the earlier Spectrum models, while the first official translation was included with the Spectrum +. It was there that Italy's most notorious Spectrum hacker, Giovanni Zanetti - better known as "G.B. Max" - began his dubious "career".

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[druellan]

Mosquetero de la Reina (https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=35232) was developed using only PAW, MuCho was used on other titles of the same dev.

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[R-Tape]

Another one sorry:

Specball 2016, should be called just "Specball".

This cropped up via PM with someone close to the game.

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[8BitAG]

Little Mouse Adventure...
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=35171

Created with the Professional Adventure Writing System

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[8BitAG]

The version of Cursed be the City in the archives is incomplete and could do with that fact being flagged on the entry so it's known that the missing portions of the software need to be recovered.

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=6134

We currently only have the text-only version of the game, which was on one side of the tape. The other side of the tape (both in its original release, and The Guild re-release) had a less verbose text & graphics version of the game. This version is MIA.

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[druellan]

"Rescate" https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=15034 the 1991 version, has a comment:
"Finalist of the Concurso de Aventuras de MicroHobby."
The game was not a finalist but pre-selected for the competition, as stated on this page: https://archive.org/details/microhobby- ... 1/mode/2up

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[8BitAG]

"Rescate" https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=15034 the 1991 version, has a comment:
"Finalist of the Concurso de Aventuras de MicroHobby."
The game was not a finalist but pre-selected for the competition, as stated on this page: https://archive.org/details/microhobby- ... 1/mode/2up

Quite a controversial competition, that one, as I'm sure you know... and I guess it depends on your definition of finalist. It certainly got on to the initial shortlist. There were over 100 adventures submitted and it was one of just fifteen chosen to proceed. These fifteen were then narrowed down to seven semi-finalists which all ended up being declared as the winners.

http://wiki.caad.es/Concurso_de_aventuras_de_MicroHobby

Labelling it as "On the final shortlist of the Concurso de Aventuras de MicroHobby" might be more accurate, I guess.

[druellan]

Quite a controversial competition, that one, as I'm sure you know... and I guess it depends on your definition of finalist.
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Labelling it as "On the final shortlist of the Concurso de Aventuras de MicroHobby" might be more accurate, I guess.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking, we can discuss the semantics, but at the end of the day IMO we need to stick to the sources

[pavero]

Danger Street
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... el_id=9018

The correct publisher is Marvel Soft and not Manuel Soft.

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