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Re: Little bugs in the database 2

Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2019 10:46 am
by StooB
Penetrator

Release date is 1982, not 1983. Advertised in the Popular Computing Weekly classifieds in the first week of December 1982, and also in the December 1982 issue of Sinclair User.
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Re: Little bugs in the database 2

Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2019 5:30 pm
by jumperror
Some time ago I've sent by e-mail some corrections to the database and then I was sent the link to this topic as it would be the best place to talk about these small changes.
I've since forgotten about it, but now that I've opened an account here, I thought maybe now we could take care of that.

So, I'll be giving some more details about games I was directly involved with:

Varina - https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=34618
André Leão - Beta Tester, Promoter, Manager (don't know if these last two can be accepted on the database)
Filipe Veiga - Graphics, Code
Mário Viegas - Game Design, Screen Art
Pedro Pimenta - Music

Droid Buster - https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=34679
Ariel Endaraues - Game Design, Code
Juan Antonio Fernandez - Screen Art
Pedro Pimenta- Music

Moritz Strikes Back - https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=34680
Andy Green (2) - Screen Art
Pedro Pimenta - Music
Sebastian Braunert - Game design
Uwe Geiken - Art, Code


Also, how can a new game be added to the database? I'd like to add "The Hair-Raising Adventures of Mr. Hair" that you can find here: https://chopz.itch.io/the-hair-raising- ... of-mr-hair

If you decide to add it, I can already give the credits:
Andy Green (2) - Screen Art
Lee Stevenson - Game Design, Code
Pedro Pimenta - Music
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Re: Little bugs in the database 2

Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2019 9:04 pm
by R-Tape
jumperror wrote: Mon Dec 16, 2019 5:30 pm Also, how can a new game be added to the database? I'd like to add "The Hair-Raising Adventures of Mr. Hair" that you can find here: https://chopz.itch.io/the-hair-raising- ... of-mr-hair

If you decide to add it, I can already give the credits:
Andy Green (2) - Screen Art
Lee Stevenson - Game Design, Code
Pedro Pimenta - Music
Cheers. I've already got this in the queue to add as part of the next update. They happen every couple of weeks, more or less.

Re: Little bugs in the database 2

Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2019 10:59 am
by druellan
StooB wrote: Tue Dec 10, 2019 10:46 am Penetrator

Release date is 1982, not 1983. Advertised in the Popular Computing Weekly classifieds in the first week of December 1982, and also in the December 1982 issue of Sinclair User.
Interesting finding, and I was thinking that this might be one of the first games to include an ingame editor?

Re: Little bugs in the database 2

Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2019 10:11 am
by StooB
druellan wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2019 10:59 am Interesting finding, and I was thinking that this might be one of the first games to include an ingame editor?
Melbourne House must have thought so as the adverts describe it as a "unique customizing feature". I can only find one earlier example and that's Munchkin from 1981 - but that was for the Magnavox Odyssey.



Time Gate

Was released in 1982, not 1983. It's at No. 1 in the Spectrum charts in the last week of 1982.

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Re: Little bugs in the database 2

Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2019 11:31 am
by moroz1999
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... el_id=9809
Mikhail, Russia
Current nickname: Kael (https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... el_id=7858)
Other nicknames: M!KAEL, amok, MIKAEL, M.I.KAEL
Was part of Bitmunchers group, now part of Mayhem group.

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Re: Little bugs in the database 2

Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2019 9:27 pm
by druellan
Joe Blob (https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=35146) was developed by Filipe Veiga of Espectroteam, not P. Veiga.
Just confirmed by [mention]Andre Leao[/mention] :)

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Re: Little bugs in the database 2

Posted: Wed Dec 25, 2019 1:28 am
by druellan
moroz1999 wrote: Wed Oct 30, 2019 8:43 pm https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=12779 Grepan (Russia), author of Color Lines, are actually three people:
Vadim Grepan
Sergey Grepan
Svetlana Kolganova
All three are from Moscow, Russia.
Hi [mention]moroz1999[/mention] This means that "Grepan" as a group does not exists, right?

Re: Little bugs in the database 2

Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2019 11:41 am
by moroz1999
druellan wrote: Wed Dec 25, 2019 1:28 am Hi @moroz1999 This means that "Grepan" as a group does not exists, right?

Seems like this! I don't see any mentions of "Grepan" as a group in the game, only as last names of authors.

Re: Little bugs in the database 2

Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2019 2:11 am
by djnzx48
Valley of Rains should have machine type 48K/128K, rather than 48K, as the 48K and 128K versions are different.
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Re: Little bugs in the database 2

Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2019 9:40 am
by R-Tape
Could author Shiny be marked as another nickname for Dmitri Krapivin.
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Re: Little bugs in the database 2

Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2019 7:10 pm
by pavero
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=16709

Correct title: Clovek, nehnevaj sa (not Clovek)
Genre: Game: Board
Maximum Players: 4
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Re: Little bugs in the database 2

Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2019 7:48 pm
by pavero

Re: Little bugs in the database 2

Posted: Tue Dec 31, 2019 10:51 am
by R-Tape
Redshift (34714) was released in 2019, not 2018.

[mention]Ivanzx[/mention] bugfixes are ZXDB, not website, and should go in this thread.
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Re: Little bugs in the database 2

Posted: Tue Dec 31, 2019 11:39 am
by Ivanzx
R-Tape wrote: Tue Dec 31, 2019 10:51 am Redshift (34714) was released in 2019, not 2018.

@Ivanzx bugfixes are ZXDB, not website, and should go in this thread.
Oooops :roll: on my defence I will say that it was way too early :D

Re: Little bugs in the database 2

Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2020 4:31 pm
by pavero
Mezi Věžemi
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=15216

Original Release Year: 1999
(confirms by the authror himself)
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Re: Little bugs in the database 2

Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2020 3:24 am
by djnzx48
Judging by the dates on Twitter, Chase The Ace, Computalk, Pangolin, Dog Walk, and Space 1999 were released in 2019, not 2018.

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Re: Little bugs in the database 2

Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2020 7:03 am
by PeterJ
Sent to me via email from Graham Richards:

Spectrum Computing erroneously states the original release of Balachor's Revenge as being by Lasasoft.
Lasasoft are the programming team. Original release for this sequel was by Monument Microgames and was not distributed by Lasasoft until the physical release had been out a while. It has not yet been re-released but will be.

Ooh, and can you credit Sophie Ann Fretter for the music on Monument's release of Castle Capers? Thank you. :)
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Re: Little bugs in the database 2

Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2020 8:56 pm
by patters
I have been quite intrigued by La Abadía del Crimen and noticed there were several mentions of an unofficial English translation including this full playthrough on YouTube but no obvious download links for an English version. After a lot of dead-end searches I discovered that MAME supports it (well, the English Beta at least), and from that I got the "ROM name" which led me to a serviceable TZX image here at TZXVault. It doesn't use a turbo loader so it converted fine to a TAP which works with my DIVMMC Future (having used tapeconv from fuse-utils).

Please can this file be added to the ZXDB entry to save someone else the hassle in future?
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Re: ZX Parachute

Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2020 1:44 am
by abelenki
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=3470

this should be transliterated as:

Nu, pogodi!

please correct this entry in the database.
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Re: ZX Parachute

Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2020 5:07 am
by R-Tape
abelenki wrote: Fri Jan 10, 2020 1:44 am https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=3470

this should be transliterated as:

Nu, pogodi!

please correct this entry in the database.
Agreed. And the language should be Russian, not Czech. Correct [mention]abelinki[/mention], [mention]pavero[/mention]?

Re: Little bugs in the database 2

Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2020 10:35 am
by StooB
Spectrum Six Pack

  • should be split into two separate entries - "Spectrum Six Pack - 48K Spectrum Version" and "Spectrum Six Pack - Spectrum+ Version" - as they have different contents
  • original release year is 1984, not 1985
  • publisher is Sinclair Research, not whoever Polanglia were
  • original price should be "Free" not £8.50
  • genre should be "Box Set" rather than "Compilation"
  • comment of "contents vary" is not helpful and should be deleted, the actual contents are:

    48K Spectrum Version: - Chequered Flag, Scrabble, Make-a-Chip, Survival, Chess, Horace Goes Skiing
    (from Popular Computing Weekly, 2nd August 1984)

    Spectrum+ Version: Chequered Flag, Scrabble, Make-a-Chip, Tasword 2, Chess, Vu-3D
    (from Popular Computing Weekly, 18th October 1984)

    (these two articles also need adding as a News/Note magazine reference for each pack)
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Re: ZX Parachute

Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2020 1:39 pm
by pavero
R-Tape wrote: Fri Jan 10, 2020 5:07 am
abelenki wrote: Fri Jan 10, 2020 1:44 am https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=3470

this should be transliterated as:

Nu, pogodi!

please correct this entry in the database.
Agreed. And the language should be Russian, not Czech. Correct @abelinki, @pavero?
I would say the language is correct. The author is Czech. And there are some texts in Czech language in the game, only some of them are in Cyrillic.

Re: Little bugs in the database 2

Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2020 2:38 pm
by Stefan
StooB wrote: Fri Jan 10, 2020 10:35 am Spectrum Six Pack
  • original release year is 1984, not 1985
  • publisher is Sinclair Research, not whoever Polanglia were
  • original price should be "Free" not £8.50
  • comment of "contents vary" is not helpful and should be deleted, the actual contents are:
Agreed.

The current entry is most likely based on this 1985 Sinclair User advert. Polanglia Ltd probably ran into a mixed stash of six packs and were selling them off. At most this advert could remain linked to both proposed new entries. The company was wound up in 1990.

Re: Little bugs in the database 2

Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2020 11:09 am
by patters
patters wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2020 8:56 pm I have been quite intrigued by La Abadía del Crimen and noticed there were several mentions of an unofficial English translation including this full playthrough on YouTube but no obvious download links for an English version. After a lot of dead-end searches I discovered that MAME supports it (well, the English Beta at least), and from that I got the "ROM name" which led me to a serviceable TZX image here at TZXVault. It doesn't use a turbo loader so it converted fine to a TAP which works with my DIVMMC Future (having used tapeconv from fuse-utils).

Please can this file be added to the ZXDB entry to save someone else the hassle in future?
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I notice that the current ZXDB entry in fact contains the attached readme that would have accompanied this unofficial English translation. For the record, the translator is Eddie Duffy. Based on what I've read, Juan Delcan wasn't only the cover artist (as the current ZXDB entry shows) - it seems he was the artist for the game.

Interestingly, the English version I linked to above isn't even available at the Virtual TR-DOS archive (http://vtrd.in), so it was very difficult to find.

While we're updating the ZXDB record, here is decent and recent review of the Spectrum version which is worth linking to. Most other mentions of the game online just parrot the same superficial stuff about it being one of the crowning achievements for 8bit systems, but make it fairly clear the reviewer hasn't actually played it.
There is also a nice showcase of the in-game artwork here which is worth adding onto the related links also.
I also found two more good quality Spanish language items of content on YouTube worth linking to:
Here is what seems to be a radio programme which includes interviews with the creators (I haven't yet listened to it in full).
Here is a good overview of the game in its various incarnations and its history.
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