Little bugs in the database 4

[druellan]

Beware that #2 has been cracked for the Dutch market.

Yeah, they are not identical, I need to go into it before doing any change, perhaps both entries can be merged into one.

[PeterJ]

Black & White has no year of release listed.

Looking at the welcome screen it was 2019:

[Audionautas]

Looking at the welcome screen it was 2019:

Hi @PeterJ

The game was developed during 2019. On the El Mundo del Spectrum (EMS) website you can see a preview published on November 4, 2019, and in the text it specifies that it is under development yet.

http://www.elmundodelspectrum.com/prese ... rita-team/

Development continued through the first months of 2020 and the game was not released until the end of March 2020.

http://www.elmundodelspectrum.com/nuevo ... rita-team/

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[PeterJ]

Thank you for the correction [mention]Audionautas[/mention].

[Juan F. Ramirez]

"Pat Morita Team", probably the coolest developers' name ever!

[Stu]

180 was ported to the Amiga and Atari ST under the name World Darts.

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[Ivanzx]

La Reliquia:

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/3 ... a_Reliquia

was not done with MK1, it was created with AGD and did not participate in the MK1 Mojon Twins contest, therefore.

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[+3code]

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/3 ... m/Art_Disk

is a Czech version of

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/7 ... Art_Studio

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[Stu]

The genre of Clues'O' should be Adventure Game: Text/Illustrated.

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[druellan]

Legend of the Amazon Women (https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/2 ... azon_Women)

Improved credits:
Design/idea by Simon Ffinch and Ed Ringler.
Code by Simon Ffinch
Also, Simon Ffinch is the abbreviation/nickname/typo? of Simon F. Finch

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[StooB]

Value Pack 16K (Beau Jolly 1983)

was released in 1984 at the same time as Value Pack 48K. Sources here and here.

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[Audionautas]

Hi

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/1 ... Eliminator

Eliminator's release date should be changed to 1989. Eliminator was the first Hewson game created (and released) with the 16 bit machines in mind, so the 16 bit versions were released first, around September/October 1988. The 8 bit versions were released in 1989. Magazines at the time reviewed the game around April/May 1989 (Crash, SU, YS, Microhobby). Also I remember buying this game in 1989 when it came out in Spain.

Thank you!

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[PeterJ]

Another one from Paul Collins:

There are two different games called "The Lost City": one from Sinclair User, and another of unknown authorship.

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/3 ... _Lost_City

and

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/6 ... _Lost_City

If you look at the Related Links for these two games, there seem to be some mistakes, where one game is linked to Tipshop and CASA for the other game.

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[PeterJ]

This one is from me!

Dr Scroll currently has an unknown Publisher, but it should be BG Services.

Source is here:

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/page.ph ... 16&page=23

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[Stu]

Dandy should be "also known as" Dauntless -- that was its original name but it was changed prior to release. The official line was that Electric Dreams secured the rights to convert Dandy around the same time that US Gold got the rights to Gauntlet but cheekily decided to change its name to Dauntless -- however after an alleged bust-up at the PCW Show they agreed to revert it back to Dandy.

(Personally I suspect they only got the rights to Dandy after US Gold threatened legal action over Dauntless being too similar to Gauntlet, but I've no actual evidence to base that on)

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[Lethargeek]

Apage Satanas info section states "This game supports Multicolour up to 83 colours."

Here we have several wrong claims at once. This game uses (not "supports", as it's not a hardware mode) a video effect called Gigascreen (not Multicolour, which is totally different thing that could be mixed with Gigascreen) in its simplest form. Also Gigascreen has up to 102 distinct blinking "colours", not 83 (though the game uses much less of these obviously):



And i think other Gigascreen-using games need to be checked.

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[Stu]

Lee Enfield Space Ace links to the wrong C64 game -- it should be http://www.gb64.com/game.php?id=17858

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[PeterJ]

Some titles from Bob Smith seem to be under 'Bob Smith' as the publisher such as:

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=23678

Whilst others are under 'Bobs Stuff'

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/list?label_id=1795

I don't understand the reason for having two different publishers listed.

[PeterJ]

Dizzy and the Mushroom Pie

Should be called:

Dizzy and the Mushrooms Pie

Source:

https://verm-v.itch.io/dizzy-and-the-mushrooms-pie

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[StooB]

React

was founded by Software Communications, not Alternative.

The first React re-release of Samantha Fox Strip Poker is from Software Communications. The cassette label shows this version was released in 1988.

The second React re-release is from Alternative, and the cassette label shows that Alternative own the React trademark. The inlay shows this release was 1989.

[StooB]

Emerald Software
and
Intelligent Design

are both owned by Software Communications.
(source)

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[Alessandro]

As mentioned almost nine months ago, Super Basic is (still) erroneously listed as "Super Basic Instruzioni" (sic). It is also filed as "General: Education" whereas it should be considered as "Programming: BASIC".

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[Art]

On the page of Tascalc, the manual file TASCALC_Manual.pdf is missing.

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[+3code]

On the page of Tascalc, the manual file TASCALC_Manual.pdf is missing.

Here:
https://www.ruthe.info/tasmanian-spread/

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[Art]

Thank you!
It should also be corrected on the Tascalc page here.