And what's the story behind this?8BitAG wrote: ↑Wed Jun 17, 2020 11:01 am Craps
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=1113
Was *not* written by Jack P. Gibbons
But was written by Andrew Parish ie. https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... bel_id=935
and along with the related games
Blackjack
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=15580
and
Roulette
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=4246
Were part of the compilation
Casino 1
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=11558
Which again, should be credited to Andrew Parish rather than Jack P. Gibbons
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Just an incorrect attribution. Jack was the distributor (for his company) behind that game not the author. I'm in contact with Jack and that's a correction he wanted made. He's been trying to get it altered elsewhere for years.
Jack has obtained Andrew's permission for the game to be distributed. He's gradually sending me over files which I've been adding to the Preservation forum.
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After Shock
Additional role information per inlay:
AUTHOR: David Banner
GRAPHICS: Terry Greer
Forest at the World's End
Additional role information per inlay:
AUTHOR DAVID M BANNER
GRAPHICS BY JEAN BANNER
PRODUCED BY RICHARD PAUL JONES
Halaga
Additional credit per inlay (do you record producers in ZXDB?):
WRITTEN BY M.I. BARNARD
PRODUCED BY RICHARD PAUL JONES
Heroes of Karn
Additional credits and role information per inlay:
Author: Ian Gray
Translations: David M Banner
Graphics: Terry Greer
Produced by: Richard Paul Jones
Additional role information per inlay:
AUTHOR: David Banner
GRAPHICS: Terry Greer
Forest at the World's End
Additional role information per inlay:
AUTHOR DAVID M BANNER
GRAPHICS BY JEAN BANNER
PRODUCED BY RICHARD PAUL JONES
Halaga
Additional credit per inlay (do you record producers in ZXDB?):
WRITTEN BY M.I. BARNARD
PRODUCED BY RICHARD PAUL JONES
Heroes of Karn
Additional credits and role information per inlay:
Author: Ian Gray
Translations: David M Banner
Graphics: Terry Greer
Produced by: Richard Paul Jones
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Thunderbirds
One of the listed contributors is 'Mike Menace', this is his only credit. The game is split into levels, one of which is entitled 'Mine Menace' as seen on the loading screen. Is it possible that someone has mistaken the title for the artists name?
One of the listed contributors is 'Mike Menace', this is his only credit. The game is split into levels, one of which is entitled 'Mine Menace' as seen on the loading screen. Is it possible that someone has mistaken the title for the artists name?
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Good catch!!!Evil Genius wrote: ↑Sun Jun 21, 2020 12:11 pm Thunderbirds
One of the listed contributors is 'Mike Menace', this is his only credit. The game is split into levels, one of which is entitled 'Mine Menace' as seen on the loading screen. Is it possible that someone has mistaken the title for the artists name?
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A cover art credit for Steinar Lund also seems to have been deleted.Evil Genius wrote: ↑Sun Jun 21, 2020 12:11 pm Thunderbirds
One of the listed contributors is 'Mike Menace', this is his only credit. The game is split into levels, one of which is entitled 'Mine Menace' as seen on the loading screen. Is it possible that someone has mistaken the title for the artists name?
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The following games are not preserved fully in the archive. They are missing the second part of the game, which would've been on the other side of the tape.
Leotrope
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=24894
Starcrash
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=10245
Can a note be added to their ZXDB entry mentioning the missing part twos, so someone knows they still need preserving? Thanks.
Leotrope
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=24894
Starcrash
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=10245
Can a note be added to their ZXDB entry mentioning the missing part twos, so someone knows they still need preserving? Thanks.
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Gauntlet II (1988) (again)
(link to previous post)
new evidence:
release reported in Popular Computing Weekly 10-16th December 1987.
(link to previous post)
new evidence:
release reported in Popular Computing Weekly 10-16th December 1987.
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Ms Pac-Man
Galaxian
(previous posts)
New evidence: Popular Computing Weekly reports all three as new releases in their 29th November - 5th December 1984 edition. So the current release year of 1984 is correct, they just took four months to send out review copies.
Galaxian
(previous posts)
New evidence: Popular Computing Weekly reports all three as new releases in their 29th November - 5th December 1984 edition. So the current release year of 1984 is correct, they just took four months to send out review copies.
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Leader Board (1986) (again)
(previous post)
More evidence of a 1987 release date:
When reviewing Konami's Golf in the 18th-31st December 1986 issue of PCW the reviewer says there "aren't many good Leaderboard style games on the Spectrum" and that Konami's Golf is "not a patch on Commodore Leaderboard".
Leaderboard goes straight in at No. 1 on the Gallup chart in the May 1987 issue of Your Sinclair. The same chart shows Gauntlet has been there for 9 weeks and that was released just before Christmas 1986.
(previous post)
More evidence of a 1987 release date:
When reviewing Konami's Golf in the 18th-31st December 1986 issue of PCW the reviewer says there "aren't many good Leaderboard style games on the Spectrum" and that Konami's Golf is "not a patch on Commodore Leaderboard".
Leaderboard goes straight in at No. 1 on the Gallup chart in the May 1987 issue of Your Sinclair. The same chart shows Gauntlet has been there for 9 weeks and that was released just before Christmas 1986.
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Sinbad (1983) by Atlantis Software
In this Atlantis competition in Crash November 1984, it says Atlantis Software didn't exist until January 1984 and that Sinbad is one of four games released since "last month". So the release year for this is 1984, and also presumably for the Z Cobra re-release too.
In this Atlantis competition in Crash November 1984, it says Atlantis Software didn't exist until January 1984 and that Sinbad is one of four games released since "last month". So the release year for this is 1984, and also presumably for the Z Cobra re-release too.
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The Tomb of Syrinx, by Black Night Software. Re-release by The Power House.
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=5319
The available inlay is the re-release edition but in the DB It says 'cassette inlay #1' what it's not correct.
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=5319
The available inlay is the re-release edition but in the DB It says 'cassette inlay #1' what it's not correct.
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That is correct: Inlay #1 is for re-release #1. The missing inlay for the original release would show as just "Cassette inlay"Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Mon Jun 22, 2020 1:29 pm The Tomb of Syrinx, by Black Night Software. Re-release by The Power House.
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=5319
The available inlay is the re-release edition but in the DB It says 'cassette inlay #1' what it's not correct.
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Ok then.StooB wrote: ↑Mon Jun 22, 2020 2:47 pmThat is correct: Inlay #1 is for re-release #1. The missing inlay for the original release would show as just "Cassette inlay"Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Mon Jun 22, 2020 1:29 pm The Tomb of Syrinx, by Black Night Software. Re-release by The Power House.
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=5319
The available inlay is the re-release edition but in the DB It says 'cassette inlay #1' what it's not correct.
As it's the only available inlay, it seems confusing.
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What do you mean?
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It was established a long time ago that Steinar Lund did the cover art for Thunderbirds:
viewtopic.php?f=32&t=86&p=17825&hilit=t ... rds#p17825
viewtopic.php?f=32&t=86&p=17970&hilit=t ... rds#p17970
Yet no cover art credit is showing:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=5255
I have since worked out that the cover art credit was incorrectly applied to the wrong game:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=5253
So delete the Steinar Lund credit from 5253 and add it to 5255.
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Good spot [mention]Rorthron[/mention],
Could people please include the infoseek number or a link to the specific title when reporting bugs. This will help reduce issues like this with two games with the same title. Cheers.
Could people please include the infoseek number or a link to the specific title when reporting bugs. This will help reduce issues like this with two games with the same title. Cheers.
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Poltergeist "by Firebird Software"
Still listed as being from Firebird.
It was not published by Firebird Software. Firebird listed all their available titles on their inlays and it is not listed on any of them. There are no reviews for it, which would make it the only Firebird title to have never been reviewed. The Bird Sanctuary, which is currently closed, has no record of it and there is no inlay either.
This was not published by Firebird.
Still listed as being from Firebird.
It was not published by Firebird Software. Firebird listed all their available titles on their inlays and it is not listed on any of them. There are no reviews for it, which would make it the only Firebird title to have never been reviewed. The Bird Sanctuary, which is currently closed, has no record of it and there is no inlay either.
This was not published by Firebird.
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Or maybe, this was not published by the British Telecom Firebird, but by another software company called Firebird that needs its own separate entry.StooB wrote: ↑Wed Jun 24, 2020 11:03 am Poltergeist "by Firebird Software"
This was not published by Firebird.
It's equally possible that it's just a homemade game that was branded as being published by Firebird because they were fans of the Firebird software label.
Dan Brochner Nielsen and Peter Lumbye did several GACed text adventures... I'll do a little more research into them. Perhaps they submitted Poltergeist to Firebird but had it rejected?
One of their entries in the ZXDB, The Castle, is actually an incomplete game. From comments on CASA, that file is part two of an adventure. https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry.php?id=6064 They've been incorrectly tagged onto the Bug Byte game, The Castle, on ZX Art... although not on ZXDB/Spectrum Computing.
Would definitely agree with the removal of the Firebird tag, replacing it with a note above the reference on the loading screen. Publisher would be best changed to Dan Brochner Nielsen as with the other games credited to him.
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Karnov
Still listed as having a re-release from Activision in the same year. Electric Dreams is one of Activision's labels, there is only one release.
Still listed as having a re-release from Activision in the same year. Electric Dreams is one of Activision's labels, there is only one release.
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Your original log of this issue isn't marked as being reviewed. There is a large backlog of these sorts of corrections.
viewtopic.php?f=32&t=1425&p=20438&hilit=karnov#p20438
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Spitfire 40 + Strike Force Harrier
Still listed as an Alternative release, it should be Again Again as shown on the cover.
and
"Again Again" is still listed as a Grandslam label when it's an Alternative one.
Still listed as an Alternative release, it should be Again Again as shown on the cover.
and
"Again Again" is still listed as a Grandslam label when it's an Alternative one.
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I know. That's why I'm posting it again!8BitAG wrote: ↑Wed Jun 24, 2020 11:47 amYour original log of this issue isn't marked as being reviewed. There is a large backlog of these sorts of corrections.
viewtopic.php?f=32&t=1425&p=20438&hilit=karnov#p20438
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Astronomy by MacMillan
There is no Astronomy by MacMillan. This bug has been caused by this review which is of Astronomy by SciSoft and Space Scan by MacMillan.
There is no Astronomy by MacMillan. This bug has been caused by this review which is of Astronomy by SciSoft and Space Scan by MacMillan.
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I'm not sure us double posting all our corrections will help reduce the backlog of entries that has built up while other areas, such as adding cover art credits, has been concentrated on.