Little bugs in the database 4

[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.

[Art]

I see that in the database, there is still only the first version of Cheetah MIDI Interface program:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/1 ... _Interface
As I wrote and uploaded here:
viewtopic.php?f=30&t=3034
there is also a newer, more complete version with a manual and newer screenshots.

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[Lethargeek]

Dirty Dozer missing "authored with AGD" field

same about The Hair-Raising Adventures of Mr. Hair and AGDx

(yep, these are the first results of the new Creator/Engine filter testing)

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[Alessandro]

Rubicon (Rucksack Games) is filed as "Arcade game: Action". It should be more precisely filed as "Arcade game: Maze".

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[Pegaz]

After several reports and many months, these two titles are still misclassified as Spectrum 128k in the Machine type category.
Both titles are +2A/+3 only and cannot work on stock 128/+2 models.
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/1 ... a_Emulator
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/3 ... s_Emulator

Also, adventure game Kontrabant 2, should go into the category Adventure Game: Text/Illustrated, not as Text only adventure.
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/2 ... ntrabant_2

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[8BitAG]

After several reports and many months, these two titles are still misclassified as Spectrum 128k in the Machine type category.

Stop trying to jump the queue. There is a line stretch back a couple of years that you need to join.

[PeterJ]

Yes, the team (mainly [mention]druellan[/mention]) are still working on Little Bugs 3. Some of these bugs take a long time to review. As mentioned previously they will be fixed when they are fixed I'm afraid. We aren't working to any timescale.

When they are fixed, they get the reviewed green tick.

[8BitAG]

Yes, the team (mainly @druellan) are still working on Little Bugs 3.

There are still outstanding issues (or issues outstanding) from Little Bugs 1 and 2 too.

[druellan]

Haha!
In fact, Little Bugs 3 is complete, and changes are waiting for the next ZXDB release. I'm now jumping to Cover Artists 2, at least to complete a couple of pages, and then I'm going to jump into Little Bugs 4.

The time we spent on the fixes really depends on the fix itself, some of them are quick and simple, others require more through investigation, but we are methodically checking them all.

[druellan]

There are still outstanding issues (or issues outstanding) from Little Bugs 1 and 2 too.

Can you paste the links here so I can take a second look this weekend?

[R-Tape]

Haha!
In fact, Little Bugs 3 is complete, and changes are waiting for the next ZXDB release. I'm now jumping to Cover Artists 2, at least to complete a couple of pages, and then I'm going to jump into Little Bugs 4.

The time we spent on the fixes really depends on the fix itself, some of them are quick and simple, others require more through investigation, but we are methodically checking them all.

Dru, I'd like to take this moment to interrupt this thread and salute you (which I'm afraid will actually make more work for you!). You're doing the hard and often tedious bit of carrying out the fixes themselves. If only there were more volunteers like you.

[PeterJ]

Dru, I'd like to take this moment to interrupt this thread and salute you.

Here, here.

[8BitAG]

Can you paste the links here so I can take a second look this weekend?

Thanks... I do appreciate it was a mammoth task. [Now things are almost caught up I can start to cross-reference fixes that I've been making the past year ago elsewhere.]

Had a quick look back in the threads, and these are ones I've personally submitted that I could easily spot; mostly from the original Little Bugs thread... Hopefully, I've copied the links correctly...

Misc. outstanding fixes...
viewtopic.php?f=34&t=1046&p=17943#p17943
viewtopic.php?f=34&t=1046&p=17458#p17458
viewtopic.php?f=34&t=1046&p=17454#p17454
viewtopic.php?f=34&t=1046&p=17453#p17453
viewtopic.php?f=34&t=1046&p=16896#p16896
viewtopic.php?p=16590#p16590
viewtopic.php?p=16238#p16238 [partial fix]
viewtopic.php?p=15922#p15922 [TZX date wrong still]

This one is my mistake... I should've just been clearer and said that the George E. Hoyle credit needs to be removed as he was not involved in the making of the game.
viewtopic.php?p=19311#p19311

New additions to the database... that were posted in the Bugs thread because there wasn't, at the time, a separate thread for those sorts of changes...
viewtopic.php?p=18506#p18506
viewtopic.php?p=17221#p17221
viewtopic.php?p=16967#p16967 [Note... this is is a different game to the one already in the database... there were two games released with that name in different issues of the tapezine]
viewtopic.php?p=16957#p16957

Marked as reviewed... but fix does not appear to be implemented ?
viewtopic.php?p=30571#p30571

Credits fixes...
viewtopic.php?p=18456#p18456
viewtopic.php?p=17840#p17840

Just spotted this...
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/6 ... mes_of_Sha [48K not 128K game, I think]

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[druellan]

Dru, I'd like to take this moment to interrupt this thread and salute you (which I'm afraid will actually make more work for you!). You're doing the hard and often tedious bit of carrying out the fixes themselves. If only there were more volunteers like you.

Oh, many thanks for that!. As I commented earlier I'm having a blast doing this, I'm learning and discovering a lot of things about the titles and industry behind them. Since I'm from Latin America, I didn't have access to a lot of this information back in the day, and I often learn something on every fix. If I can't do more it is because sometimes I don't have enough time

[Stu]

Assuming that Peter Austin who did cover art for Players Software and Pete Austin of Level 9 are different people, the inlay credit for Cobra Force should be Peter Austin, not Pete Austin. Meanwhile, Return to Eden has a credit for Peter Austin when it should be Pete Austin.

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[Stu]

The Fourth Protocol has parts where you need to use a deccoding pad included with the game to decipher messages. According to a feature in Big K, "This will be engineered so that it is virtually impossible to photocopy [...] making life harder for pirates".

Does this make the game one that should be flagged as having padlock protection? Or does that specifically apply to games that don't integrate the protection into gameplay?

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[Juan F. Ramirez]

Cargador Universal de Código Máquina was an utility published in several Microhobby issues as basic list. It helped readers to input M/C routines that appeared often in the magazine. So MH decided to include it in some of tape issues.

The question is it appears as MIA, but if you look at the several 'compilations featuring this title' we see it included in every file, so I don't think it should be considered as MIA as it was never released as a single program.

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[PeterJ]

The Rings of Merlin has two CASA links. The first link is for a completely different game.

Thanks to Paul Collins

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[Audionautas]

Hi!

Two fixes on Black and White


1) Release Year. It reads "unknown", but it was released in 2020. You can check it here. https://greenwebsevilla.itch.io/black-and-white This link also includes full credits for the game that also could be included on the ZXDB.

2) On Releases section. It reads Re-release #1 Matra Computer Automations (Spain) €8.75. This game was first released as a download in March 2020, but soon after it was released by Matra and its price it was not €8,75 but €21.45 because it was a deluxe edition on a limited batch, as you can see in the following link: http://www.matranet.net/boutique/zx/bla ... kwhite.php

Matra usually releases standard editions for some of their games, but for Black and White as well as Ninjakul 2: The Last Ninja they only released a short batch in cardboard boxes.

Thank you!

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[druellan]

Two fixes on Black and White

Thanks! GreenWeb already contacted me about this, and fixes are ready for the next ZXDB deploy, but I'm going to double-check the prices, etc.

[PeterJ]

I seem to be finding a lot of titles marked as MiA when they are not. Another example here:

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

Scroll down to compilations including this title, and its there:

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/1 ... _issue_148

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