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Frankie wrote: Fri Sep 18, 2020 8:28 am Just realised that the game is already online as Towering Inferno, so just need to move infos from Inferno to Towering Inferno, as it seems some are missing :)
Do you mean Inferno and Towering Inferno are exactly the same game?
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Einar Saukas wrote: Sat Sep 19, 2020 7:43 am
Frankie wrote: Fri Sep 18, 2020 8:28 am Just realised that the game is already online as Towering Inferno, so just need to move infos from Inferno to Towering Inferno, as it seems some are missing :)
Do you mean Inferno and Towering Inferno are exactly the same game?
Yes 😀
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This game:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=3838
isn't 1987 but 1989.
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7152|Valhalla
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=7152

Inlay contains additional credits not mentioned in the archive:

"Production team - Graham Asher, Richard Edwards, Charles Goodwin,
James Learmont, Jan Ostler, Andrew Owen, John Peel."

Note: we do not have a scan of the instructions in the archive, but there is one here:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source= ... 6JXO9MmyRu

Could this be added to the archive?
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I suppose RUN [IT] was founded and owned by Aquarius Edizioni. Correct?

Right now ZXDB says the opposite (just like Martijn's WoS).
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The Fourth Protocol

This was also released for MS-DOS. It isn't on Abandonia that I can see (as the PC/DOS games currently in ZXDB are) but it's available at archive.org, I don't know if that's an alternative URL worth using?



A Guide to Playing the Fourth Protocol

This has been given an 'also known as' entry of "The Fourth Protocol: Playing the Game", however looking at a scan of the book https://www.mocagh.org/miscgame/4thprot ... ntbook.pdf its name does seem to be "The Fourth Protocol: Playing the Game" -- I can't see any reference to its name being "A Guide to Playing the Fourth Protocol" anywhere.

Incidentally, the book mentions an Apple II conversion of the game, which according to an article in Retro Gamer 61 was finished and released; however I can't find any trace of it online. So I don't know if it's worth adding Apple II to the list of other platforms or not?
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Stu wrote: Tue Sep 29, 2020 12:02 pm A Guide to Playing the Fourth Protocol
Can't edit my post to add these but the following magazine references currently listed for the game apply to the guidebook -- since they also relate to the game they probably want to be listed for both:

https://archive.org/stream/computer-vid ... 7/mode/1up
https://archive.org/stream/Computer_Gam ... 6/mode/1up
https://archive.org/stream/popular-comp ... 0/mode/1up
https://archive.org/stream/sinclair-use ... 9/mode/1up (This one is already listed in the book's ZXDB entry)
https://archive.org/stream/YourSinclair ... 0/mode/1up
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Alexandre Cunha is portuguese, not spanish.

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/2 ... /Recover_3
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This french game should be called Le Manoir du Dr Genius instead of just Dr Genius:

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/6 ... /Dr_Genius
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[mention]rogerjowett[/mention] has let me know that Delta Wing from creative sparks includes fuller box (
G1-AY-3-8912) support.
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=1337

It's listed in the Spanish instructions:

https://archive.org/download/World_of_S ... lS.A.).pdf
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Hi,

I've noticed Sirwood lists an intro screenshot instead of its original loading screen.

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/4 ... um/Sirwood

This is the correct one: https://zxart.ee/release/id:297516/mode ... rintro.png
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+3code wrote: Sat Oct 10, 2020 9:58 am I think this
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2041
can be added to
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/6 ... d_of_Kings
It's tricky... because it isn't a re-release but it is authorised. It's a completely different reverse engineered version of the game running on a totally different engine using completely different code; created over thirty years later. The graphics and text might be similar but the code is completely unrelated. WOS did not have a consistent policy on this but I would argue it needs a linked, but separate entry.
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8BitAG wrote: Sat Oct 10, 2020 1:47 pm
+3code wrote: Sat Oct 10, 2020 9:58 am I think this
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2041
can be added to
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/6 ... d_of_Kings
It's tricky... because it isn't a re-release but it is authorised. It's a completely different reverse engineered version of the game running on a totally different engine using completely different code; created over thirty years later. The graphics and text might be similar but the code is completely unrelated. WOS did not have a consistent policy on this but I would argue it needs a linked, but separate entry.
I agree.
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From Paul Collins via email:

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/2 ... hine_Codes

Buttercraft's "ZX Big-Shot Typeface Machine Codes" is listed as having been created with the PAW (Professional Adventure Writer) -- that can't be right for a font utility, can it?
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PeterJ wrote: Sat Oct 10, 2020 8:47 pm From Paul Collins via email:

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/2 ... hine_Codes

Buttercraft's "ZX Big-Shot Typeface Machine Codes" is listed as having been created with the PAW (Professional Adventure Writer) -- that can't be right for a font utility, can it?
It seems very unlikely; unless, of course, they used the PAW's font editor to create the fonts.

Seems to be an add-on tape for https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/9 ... X_Big-Shot
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Rather OT, but It got a very poor review in Sinclair User :-)

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PeterJ wrote: Sat Oct 10, 2020 8:47 pm From Paul Collins via email:

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/2 ... hine_Codes

Buttercraft's "ZX Big-Shot Typeface Machine Codes" is listed as having been created with the PAW (Professional Adventure Writer) -- that can't be right for a font utility, can it?
From ZXDB incremental file "102_zxdb_UTF8.sql":

Code: Select all

-- [PeterJ] https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?p=16177#p16177
INSERT INTO relations (entry_id, original_id, relationtype_id) VALUES ('15730', '6825', 'a');
INSERT INTO relations (entry_id, original_id, relationtype_id) VALUES ('20894', '6825', 'a');
INSERT INTO relations (entry_id, original_id, relationtype_id) VALUES ('16890', '6825', 'a');
Instead of 20894 it should have been 20984. I'm fixing it now.

Luckily we maintain auditing logs for all ZXDB changes, thus any mistakes can be easily tracked and fixed :)
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Good stuff [mention]Einar Saukas[/mention],

I will send Paul a thank you for his good spot.
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Cassette Juegos is currently identified as compilation instead of covertape, as if this tape was sold independently by magazine "Tu Micro".

However most games included in this tape are marked as "originally published in a covertape", thus implying that Cassette Juegos is actually a covertape included in a magazine issue.

Does anyone know if this is a covertape or not? If so, then what's the magazine number that included this tape?
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Einar Saukas wrote: Mon Oct 12, 2020 8:17 pm Cassette Juegos is currently identified as compilation instead of covertape, as if this tape was sold independently by magazine "Tu Micro".

However most games included in this tape are marked as "originally published in a covertape", thus implying that Cassette Juegos is actually a covertape included in a magazine issue.

Does anyone know if this is a covertape or not? If so, then what's the magazine number that included this tape?
Reading about "Tu Micro" here

https://programbytes48k.wordpress.com/2 ... a-estudio/

and looking the tape and cassette inlay I think its'n a covertape, but a compilation sold independently by "Tu Micro".
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Thanks!

I also saw this text before, but I could not see any indication that Cassette Juegos was sold independently. Did you conclude this because there's no explicit reference to any specific magazine number?

Also the instructions transcription reference different magazine numbers for each program, and each one of these programs is currently marked as originally released "on magazine covertape" (except the last one). However the text about "Tu Micro" seem to indicate programs were published as type-ins, instead of covertapes. What's the correct information?

Finally does anyone know where to find magazine scans? Perhaps [mention]Neil Parsons[/mention]?
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Einar Saukas wrote: Tue Oct 13, 2020 4:17 pm Thanks!

I also saw this text before, but I could not see any indication that Cassette Juegos was sold independently. Did you conclude this because there's no explicit reference to any specific magazine number?

Also the instructions transcription reference different magazine numbers for each program, and each one of these programs is currently marked as originally released "on magazine covertape" (except the last one). However the text about "Tu Micro" seem to indicate programs were published as type-ins, instead of covertapes. What's the correct information?
Well, I think it can be only a compilation, the instructions show the magazine numbers for each program and really all in this tape looks so.
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Einar Saukas wrote: Tue Oct 13, 2020 4:17 pm Finally does anyone know where to find magazine scans? Perhaps @Neil Parsons?
The magazine no, but the type-ins are preserved here:
https://proyectobasiczx.wordpress.com/r ... /tu-micro/
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+3code wrote: Tue Oct 13, 2020 8:49 pm
Einar Saukas wrote: Tue Oct 13, 2020 4:17 pm Finally does anyone know where to find magazine scans? Perhaps @Neil Parsons?
The magazine no, but the type-ins are preserved here:
https://proyectobasiczx.wordpress.com/r ... /tu-micro/
This link confirms that these programs were originally released as type-ins.

Thanks!!!
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