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PeterJ · Post by **PeterJ** » Tue Jun 02, 2020 11:12 am

Hi [mention]8BitAG[/mention],

I'm sure [mention]druellan[/mention] will give a definitive answer, but I would assume If they have not got the 'Reviewed' mark at the bottom that he is aware they have not been done yet. There is only [mention]druellan[/mention] reviewing these.

Keep posting them though. It's good good stuff.

PS. Enjoying your book by the way.

PeterJ · Post by **PeterJ** » Tue Jun 02, 2020 11:50 am

Please can Pooper Scooper be added to the list of games with ULAplus support:

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=34428

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druellan · Post by **druellan** » Tue Jun 02, 2020 2:04 pm

8BitAG wrote: ↑Tue Jun 02, 2020 10:13 am There are quite a few corrections that I submitted in the first "little bugs" thread that have never been made. Is it worth me collating them and submitting them again?

Hi! No, just leave them there, I need to revisit this thread, I'm right now busy with the missing information for Players Software Rorthron uncovered on the "Cover Artist" thread (*). Einar is also roaming the thread making fixes. We mark everything we are working on with a "Reviewed" tag, that way we can go back and check if we missed something.

I have also some old fixes I need to revisit that are currently marked as Reviewed but didn't make it into the database for some reason, like this one viewtopic.php?f=32&t=1425&p=28636#p28636 So, as soon I finish with Players I'm going to jump back here. In the meantime everything is documented here, it is just a matter of time but it will be added to the database.

(*) We are basically filling up everything we can find about the authors, based on the ingame credits and instructions, including teams, nicknames and roles:

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8BitAG · Post by **8BitAG** » Tue Jun 02, 2020 3:01 pm

druellan wrote: ↑Tue Jun 02, 2020 2:04 pm Hi! No, just leave them there, I need to revisit this thread, I'm right now busy with the missing information for Players Software Rorthron uncovered on the "Cover Artist" thread (*).

Fair enough... with the information being submitted over a year and a half ago, I just presumed it had been overlooked.

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StooB · Post by **StooB** » Tue Jun 02, 2020 6:02 pm

Starstrike II

has re-releases from ZCobra of Spain and Cobra of Russia. Cobra's only other releases were in 1997, so this is probably an error.

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Alone Coder · Post by **Alone Coder** » Tue Jun 02, 2020 8:33 pm

PeterJ · Post by **PeterJ** » Tue Jun 02, 2020 9:40 pm

Hi [mention]Alone Coder[/mention],

Can you recommend an emulator which has support for these machines such as the ATM (ATM Turbo)?

Thanks

Einar Saukas · Post by **Einar Saukas** » Wed Jun 03, 2020 2:09 am

druellan wrote: ↑Tue Jun 02, 2020 2:04 pm I have also some old fixes I need to revisit that are currently marked as Reviewed but didn't make it into the database for some reason, like this one viewtopic.php?f=32&t=1425&p=28636#p28636

This fix is already in the database. It refers to The Crystal of Chantie (BASIC) released in 1985, and The Crystal of Chantie (G.A.C.) released in 1987.

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8BitAG · Post by **8BitAG** » Wed Jun 03, 2020 8:39 am

Einar Saukas wrote: ↑Wed Jun 03, 2020 2:09 am
druellan wrote: ↑Tue Jun 02, 2020 2:04 pm I have also some old fixes I need to revisit that are currently marked as Reviewed but didn't make it into the database for some reason, like this one viewtopic.php?f=32&t=1425&p=28636#p28636
This fix is already in the database. It refers to The Crystal of Chantie (BASIC) released in 1985, and The Crystal of Chantie (G.A.C.) released in 1987.

Yes, as Einar says, that post was later followed up with this one viewtopic.php?p=28954#p28954 when Gary Power confirmed that he made one version of the game in BASIC and one using GAC. http://8bitag.com/info/pelagon.html

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R-Tape · Post by **R-Tape** » Wed Jun 03, 2020 3:21 pm

Author request for Empareja 35780.

Change the author to 'Eddie The Wild' (4203), his nickname.

Add comment "A preliminary version was submitted to Bytemaniacos 2006 BASIC Contest."

(This is because the downloadable file will be replaced by a slightly different one).

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Alone Coder · Post by **Alone Coder** » Wed Jun 03, 2020 4:38 pm

PeterJ wrote: ↑Tue Jun 02, 2020 9:40 pm Hi @Alone Coder,

Can you recommend an emulator which has support for these machines such as the ATM (ATM Turbo)?

Thanks

Unreal Speccy
Xpeccy
ZXMAK2

I wonder why Fuse doesn't support this.

StooB · Post by **StooB** » Thu Jun 04, 2020 1:19 pm

StooB wrote: ↑Wed Apr 22, 2020 3:15 pm Chuckie Egg (1984)

was released in 1983, reviewed in Popular Computing Weekly, 20th October 1983 and Home Computing Weekly, 15th November 1983

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The year on the two A'n'F downloads need changing to 1983 too.

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StooB · Post by **StooB** » Thu Jun 04, 2020 1:24 pm

Xenon

Missing information for Tronix release:
year: 1991
price: £3.99
source: Sinclair User Jan 1992 (published 18th December 1991)

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moroz1999 · Post by **moroz1999** » Thu Jun 04, 2020 5:06 pm

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... bel_id=339 - Academy Coders is same as Coders' Academy Interactive Group (Taganrog, Russia)
(https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... el_id=2636)

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8BitAG · Post by **8BitAG** » Thu Jun 04, 2020 6:57 pm

Castle Colditz by Felix Software was a 1983 release, not 1984
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=6067

as shown by the multiple advertising referenced on the game page.

Also...

the ZX81 16K version is missing from the ZXDB.

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moroz1999 · Post by **moroz1999** » Thu Jun 04, 2020 10:31 pm

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... bel_id=583 - Aleiwikou S.A. is not a company, it's a person S.A. Aleynikov from Russia.

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... bel_id=802 - Amaltiya Incorporated Software, Belarus, Grodno

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Stu · Post by **Stu** » Fri Jun 05, 2020 9:37 am

Links to ACE and MicroHobby aren't currently working.

ACE:

The issue number is currently specified as 3 digits but it should be 2 digits eg:

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Current view link is https://archive.org/stream/ace-magazine-016/ACE_Issue_016_1989_Jan#page/n116/mode/1up
Correct view link is https://archive.org/stream/ace-magazine-16/ACE_Issue_16_1989_Jan#page/n116/mode/1up

This applies to download links as well.

Microhobby:

View links are missing '.pdf' and have details repeated eg:

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Current view link is https://archive.org/stream/microhobby-magazine-056#page/n38/mode/1up/MicroHobby_056#page/n38/mode/1up
Correct view link is https://archive.org/stream/microhobby-magazine-056.pdf/MicroHobby_056#page/n38/mode/1up

Download links are fine as they are.

Note that the second reference to the magazine doesn't seem to be necessary; the following links give the exact same result:

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https://archive.org/stream/ace-magazine-16/ACE_Issue_16_1989_Jan#page/n116/mode/1up
https://archive.org/stream/ace-magazine-16#page/n116/mode/1up

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+3code · Post by **+3code** » Fri Jun 05, 2020 7:14 pm

That title:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=32133

Was published in that tape:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=20717

And is a spanish traslation of that:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=6595

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StooB · Post by **StooB** » Fri Jun 05, 2020 7:16 pm

Pole Position

The inlay PolePosition(ErbeSoftwareS.A.).jpg is a slightly better copy of the US Gold inlay, while the inlay PolePosition(IBSA).jpg is an Erbe inlay.

The instructions PolePosition(IBSA).pdf are Erbe instructions.

The zip file PolePosition(IBSA).tzx.zip contains Pole Position (Erbe - Serie Leyenda).tzx.

There doesn't seem to be an IBSA version from 1988 at all.

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Juan F. Ramirez · Post by **Juan F. Ramirez** » Fri Jun 05, 2020 7:37 pm

StooB wrote: ↑Fri Jun 05, 2020 7:16 pm Pole Position

The inlay PolePosition(ErbeSoftwareS.A.).jpg is a slightly better copy of the US Gold inlay, while the inlay PolePosition(IBSA).jpg is an Erbe inlay.

The instructions PolePosition(IBSA).pdf are Erbe instructions.

The zip file PolePosition(IBSA).tzx.zip contains Pole Position (Erbe - Serie Leyenda).tzx.

There doesn't seem to be an IBSA version from 1988 at all.

IBSA is a sort of ERBE second label. It always contains the 'Serie Leyenda' seal. So in this case, it seems it's really the IBSA inlay as it has the SL seal. Something similar happens with Gremlin's Avenger, for example.

And the Erbe inlay being too similar to the US Gold one, it seems Erbe published it with the same inlay than in the UK in those early years. Only the instructions were in spanish.

SPA2, the main spanish Spectrum archive and a very reliable source, considers all the files like they are here (it provided spanish stuff to WoS, hence the coincidence):

https://spa2.speccy.org/spanish/p.htm

There are two different instructions (Erbre & Ibsa) as well as two inlays.

Juan F. Ramirez · Post by **Juan F. Ramirez** » Fri Jun 05, 2020 7:41 pm

[mention]jpablo[/mention] , the very maintainer of SPA2 maybe can shed light on this!

StooB · Post by **StooB** » Fri Jun 05, 2020 8:24 pm

Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Fri Jun 05, 2020 7:37 pm IBSA is a sort of ERBE second label. It always contains the 'Serie Leyenda' seal. So in this case, it seems it's really the IBSA inlay as it has the SL seal. Something similar happens with Gremlin's Avenger, for example.

And the Erbe inlay being too similar to the US Gold one, it seems Erbe published it with the same inlay than in the UK in those early years. Only the instructions were in spanish.

A-ha! Thank you - this explains things!

Einar Saukas · Post by **Einar Saukas** » Sat Jun 06, 2020 12:06 am

+3code wrote: ↑Fri Jun 05, 2020 7:14 pm That title:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=32133

Was published in that tape:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=20717

And is a spanish traslation of that:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=6595

Good catch!

All programs in this tape are Spanish translations from 16/48 Tape Magazine, except for "Libano" apparently. I added them all to ZXDB, they will appear in the next update.

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Einar Saukas · Post by **Einar Saukas** » Sat Jun 06, 2020 7:08 am

Patrik Rak wrote: ↑Mon May 18, 2020 1:27 pm - Amiga emulator demo is assigned to "Scorpion [2]", instead of "Scorpion (Czech)". If it helps, Space Crusaders Demo uses the correct Scorpion.

Do you mean Scorpion and Scorpion[2] are the same company so their information should be merged?

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Rorthron · Post by **Rorthron** » Sat Jun 06, 2020 10:18 am

This ZX81 game is missing from the archive:

http://www.zx81stuff.org.uk/zx81/tape/Baron

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