Spectrum Computing

Einar Saukas wrote: ↑Fri Oct 04, 2019 3:42 pm If either of you is willing to add any of the remaining titles, please let me know. Thank you!!!

Well, there are quite a lot of missing SAM titles that fall under my specialism of text adventures, most of which are listed on World of Sam, so I'll look into adding them to the database.

There's also our Sam Adventure Club magazine disks, as well as all the various compilations that we collaborated on with several homebrew publishers... These are things like compilations of Zenobi's Spectrum titles that have various tweaks (such as offering additional choices of fonts & user-defined colour schemes) and Sam-specific features such as disk saves... I'm not quite sure how these will slot into the database...

A new ZXDB update is available!

This version mostly contains bugfixes provided by [mention]druellan[/mention].

Thanks [mention]Einar Saukas[/mention]

If everything goes to plan, I will update the site this evening.

A new ZXDB update is available!

It includes new titles (thanks [mention]R-Tape[/mention]!), new hires inlays (thanks [mention]pavero[/mention]!), and new fixes (thanks [mention]druellan[/mention]!).

Einar Saukas wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2019 1:36 pm A new ZXDB update is available!

Fast work Einar. Hope it wasn't too painful

And clickety-click, that marks the 66th ZXDB update at SC (plus an as-yet uncounted number from BSCE*)

*before Spectrum Computing Era

A new ZXDB update is available!

Once again it contains new titles (thanks [mention]R-Tape[/mention]!), new hires inlays (thanks [mention]pavero[/mention]!), and new fixes (thanks [mention]druellan[/mention]!).

Stairway to heaven, update #67!*



*plus however many were done BSCE if anyone wants to count.

EDIT - just realised that bingo calls stop at 90. Might have to think again on this.

Another ZXDB update is available!

As usual, it contains new titles (thanks [mention]R-Tape[/mention]!), new hires inlays and/or instructions (thanks [mention]pavero[/mention]!), and new fixes (thanks [mention]druellan[/mention]!).

Another ZXDB update is now available!

Merry Xmas!!!

A new ZXDB update is available!

This time, it contains new titles (thanks [mention]R-Tape[/mention] and [mention]pavero[/mention]!), new hires inlays and instructions (thanks again [mention]pavero[/mention]!) and new fixes (thanks [mention]druellan[/mention]!)

Just a quick note for new content fans: I won't be able to do my part of an update until near the end of Feb. I'm keeping track of everything that needs doing though, including [mention]Alessandro[/mention]'s and [mention]Ersh[/mention]'s updates. Cheers.

In the meantime... A new ZXDB update is available!

Another ZXDB update is now available!

It contains new titles (thanks both [mention]R-Tape[/mention] and [mention]pavero[/mention]!), new hires inlays and instructions (thanks again [mention]pavero[/mention]!) and more fixes (thanks [mention]druellan[/mention]!) as usual. Also the first few issues of Load'n'Run are now cataloged (thanks [mention]Alessandro[/mention]!)

Einar Saukas wrote: ↑Mon Dec 23, 2019 5:50 am Another ZXDB update is now available!

Merry Xmas!!!

I missed my chance in December to say update #69, Head over heels!

But we're on #72 now*, so the point is moot

*plus previous, as yet uncounted updates from BSCE.

Ah! Got it:



Mr Do!... Update number 72!

Yet another ZXDB update is already available!

It contains lots of Czech program files, new hires inlays and instructions (thanks [mention]pavero[/mention]!), new fixes (thanks [mention]druellan[/mention]!), and a few more catalogued issues of Load'n'Run (thanks [mention]Alessandro[/mention]!)

Also there's now a new classification group called High-Quality CSSCGC Software. If you are running a ZXDB-based site that filters search results based on the "is_crap" flag, please update your filter to consider this group instead. The "is_crap" flag still exists, but it will be removed in the next ZXDB update. Please see this post for more details.

A large ZXDB update is now available! As usual, many thanks to [mention]R-Tape[/mention], [mention]pavero[/mention], [mention]druellan[/mention], and [mention]Alessandro[/mention].

As announced in my last post, flag "is_crap" was removed from ZXDB. Now if anyone wants to find out if a certain title is CSSCGC, they must simply check if this title belongs to any CSSCGC group. In practice, this change will only affect site owners. If anyone needs assistance with this change, please let me know!

Another fairly large ZXDB update has been released!

Lots of thanks to [mention]R-Tape[/mention], [mention]pavero[/mention], [mention]druellan[/mention] and [mention]kolbeck[/mention]!!!

Thank you [mention]Einar Saukas[/mention] [mention]R-Tape[/mention], [mention]pavero[/mention], [mention]druellan[/mention] and [mention]kolbeck[/mention] .

The update has been applied.

A new ZXDB update is available!

As usual, many thanks to [mention]R-Tape[/mention], [mention]pavero[/mention], [mention]druellan[/mention] and [mention]kolbeck[/mention]!

Einar Saukas wrote: ↑Fri May 15, 2020 7:43 pm A new ZXDB update is available!

As usual, many thanks to @R-Tape, @pavero, @druellan and @kolbeck!

Thanks everyone. Update applied.

PeterJ wrote: ↑Fri May 15, 2020 8:08 pm Thanks everyone. Update applied.

That was fast! Thank you!


PS: [mention]R-Tape[/mention] stay safe!

Einar Saukas wrote: ↑Fri May 15, 2020 8:13 pm That was fast! Thank you!

Its down to having a 10 second trip home from work (study to kitchen), rather than 2 hours each way!

Another ZXDB update is now available!

This time we didn't have much time to add recently released titles, but there are new screens (some of them for the SAM Coupé and Next) and tons of additional information (mainly author credits).

Special thanks to [mention]PeterJ[/mention], [mention]druellan[/mention], [mention]pavero[/mention], and [mention]kolbeck[/mention]!

A technical note for anyone running websites and apps based on ZXDB:

Column "magrefs.feature_id" is now obsolete and it will be removed in the next ZXDB update. There's already a separate table called "magreffeats" to store this information.

I doubt anyone is using this column, but I always provide notice in advance for all upcoming ZXDB changes, so everyone has enough time to update their systems accordingly!