There are loads of interviews there with employees of companies that aren't necessarily authors or programmers of games. Quite often they're about specific products or games, in which case I presume they will show up as magazine references under those games anyway. But linking employees to companies does seem to be quite a useful idea (but perhaps a whole project in itself).
Einar Saukas wrote: ↑Sat Aug 24, 2019 12:21 am
Douglas Adams never authored any Spectrum game, but he should be credited for
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Although this is not a Spectrum game, it actually works on a Spectrum +3 using ZXZVM, thus the reason it's cataloged in ZXDB.
ZXZVM is a brilliant bit of work but I'm not sure how I feel about Hitchhiker's Guide being in a Spectrum database. All those Infocom text adventures were technically playable on the Spectrum +3 anyway, using Locomotive's CP/M Plus, but it feels really odd that an unauthorised version which is little more than an interpreter on a disk with the game code, can count as a game and get a proper entry.
There are no end of Z-machine games that you could similarly slap onto a disk with ZXZVM should anyone be so inclined. Not to mention CP/M games, that you could technically make a standalone bootable +3 disk for. That would flood the database with entries. Where do you draw the line?
(This is more me exploring where the line is for this time of submission and what the scope of ZXDB actually is..... I would agree. It is very useful to have easy access to those games)
