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The Adventure Builder System
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/1 ... der_System

Had an additional, graphics utility...
ABS Graphics
aka Graphic Aid / Graphic Aid for Adventure Builder System

which requires a separate entry in the database.

See...
Image

Source: Adventure Probe, Issue 3, August 1986

This additional utility is also mentioned in the Alpha Omega release instructions.

ie.
GRAPHIC AID
for
THE ADVENTURE BUILDER SYSTEM


Also available from ALPHA OMEGA SOFTWARE ... a simple to use program
which will incorporate INSTANT part-screen graphics into your
masterpieces.


For use ONLY with the ADVENTURE BUILDER SYSTEM, and only �2.50 from

ALPHA OMEGA SOFTWARE
CRL HOUSE 9 KINGS YARD
CARPENTERS ROAD
LONDON E152HD
01-985 6877
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druellan wrote: Wed Jul 22, 2020 4:13 am Dominoes (https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/1 ... m/Dominoes)

Something very odd about this game. D.H.L. is credited, but his name is not present on the game. But, if you inspect the code of the TAP version, you can find "1982 by IMAGINE SOFTWARÅCopyright: Program,Audio,VisuaìPresentóBY D.H.L?" This looks like a leftover on the tape image.
Took the time to investigate this one a little more. The fragment of the code at the end of the tape seems to be identical to Arcadia's code. So, probably the image was extracted from a previously used tape. In any case, pretty sure Lawson is not one of the authors.

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This game...
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/6 ... e_Prisoner
...wasn't developed with Quill, but with Hisoft Pascal:

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+3code wrote: Mon Aug 17, 2020 8:33 pm This game...
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/6 ... e_Prisoner
...wasn't developed with Quill, but with Hisoft Pascal:

Image
Yeah, I think that's an issue that's carried over from the old WOS.

There are several The Prisoner games that I can remember trying to untangle many years ago... They'd been mixed up on the old WOS, with files and references jumbled up. I think I submitted corrections to sort most of it out but the Quill reference will be a tag that refers to one of the other games.
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6715|Mugsy
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/6 ... trum/Mugsy

Additional credit information per the inlay at Mobygames:
https://www.mobygames.com/game/mugsy/co ... Id,423201/
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I don't think that...
Scoop
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/1 ... trum/Scoop

...was released on the Amstrad as stated on the entry. I can't spot a reference for it, anyway.

The cassette had the Spectrum version on one side and the C64 on the other. Is there a database tag for "flippy" tapes?
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druellan wrote: Mon Aug 17, 2020 1:54 pm Great to have this covered, I always liked Odin's covers and the art department in general.
I'm trying to also figure out the roles:

Nodes of Yesod
Steve Wetherill - code
Colin Grunes - ingame graphics
Stuart James Fotheringham - ingame graphics
Paul Salmon - ingame graphics
Fred Gray - music

Arc of Yesod
Steve Wetherill - code
Colin Grunes - ingame graphics
Stuart James Fotheringham - ingame graphics
Paul Salmon - ingame graphics
Fred Gray - music

Robin of the Wood
Steve Wetherill - code
Paul Salmon - ingame graphics
Andy Walker - music

Heartland
Steve Wetherill - code
Colin Grunes - ingame graphics - loading screen - level design
Stuart James Fotheringham - ingame graphics (uncredited)
Keith Tinman - music

Pretty sure Colin Grunes did also the loading screen for Nodes and Arc of Yesod, but I don't have a confirmation roaming Steve's blog.
According to this Interview:
https://planetsinclair.meulie.net/indus ... rviews.htm

Nodes
Code: Steve Wetherill, Keith Robinson, Dave ??? (Spectrum, Spectrum 128)
Graphics: Stuart Fotheringham (Spectrum, etc); Colin Grunes (Spectrum, etc); Paul Salmon (Spectrum, etc)
Music: Fred Grey

Arc
Code: Steve Wetherill (Spectrum, Spectrum 128)
Graphics: Colin Grunes (Spectrum, C64); Stuart Fotheringham (C64, Spectrum)
Music: Keith Tinman

Robin of the Wood
Code: Steve Wetherill (Spectrum, Spectrum 128)
Graphics: Paul Salmon (Spectrum)
Music: Fred Grey

ICUPS
Code: Tommy Lannigan, Steve Parry (Spectrum)
Graphics: Stuart Fotheringham (Spectrum, C64)
Music: Keith Tinman

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/2 ... trum/ICUPS

ZXDB has'Steve Parys'
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/list?label_id=13911

While the interview has ' Steve Parry' (either could be a typo ofc).
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/list?label_id=13910
druellan wrote: Tue Aug 18, 2020 1:06 am Yeah, I don't trust MobyGames as a sole source of information, or any "Internet" source that is not the author for the matter. I just asked Steve Whetheril to see if he remembers.
That was going to be my next suggestion ;)
While you are at it, why not ask him if his disassembly of Nodes revealed anything on the identity of 'Dave'?
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Curse of the Seven Faces
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/6 ... even_Faces

Was originally published in 1984 by Classic Computing.

The Artic release was also planned for 1984, but not reviewed until 1985 and there is significant doubt as to whether it was actually released as a standalone game by them.

The Imperial Software re-release listed on the page is from 1985; and replaced the planned release by Artic.

See... http://8bitag.com/info/seven.html for sources and references.

Could potentially be the first Spectrum adventure (and perhaps first adventure full stop) with a ramsave/memory-save feature.
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Clues 'O'
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/9 ... um/CLUES_O

The author of the game is listed on the loading screen... P. Thomas
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Datel's Game Ace is flagged with a Release Year of 1988: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/1 ... _Games_Ace

It was featured in Sinclair User and ZX Computing as early as 1984.
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Sea War (Panda Software, 1982)

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

It says its genre is Strategy Game: War, and Multi-turn type: Turn-based.

I think it's clearly an arcade/shooter game.
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Juan F. Ramirez wrote: Fri Aug 21, 2020 10:59 am Sea War (Panda Software, 1982)

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

It says its genre is Strategy Game: War, and Multi-turn type: Turn-based.

I think it's clearly an arcade/shooter game.
Also the price in the entry is listed at £6.00... In the advert it says £6.00 is the ZX81 price, Speccy price is £7.00. Not sure how prices work in ZXDB but I thought I'd mention it.
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Morkin wrote: Fri Aug 21, 2020 11:10 am Also the price in the entry is listed at £6.00... In the advert it says £6.00 is the ZX81 price, Speccy price is £7.00. Not sure how prices work in ZXDB but I thought I'd mention it.
The ZX81 price would go on the ZX81 entry; but the various Panda Software ZX81 titles don't appear to be in the database.
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/page.ph ... 52&page=97
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Masterchess was according to this advert (in SU from October 1982) released already in 1982.
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I guess this might be a HEAT matter, but I double checked every line in the latest ZXDB_mysql.sql dump (20-08-2020), linked to WOS archive, using the "World of Spectrum June 2017 Mirror" and here are the "missing files" or "bad reference" to non existing files:

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The presentation of 2000AD licences is inconsistent. They are usually attributed to 2000AD, except Nemesis the Warlock, which is attributed to IPC.

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

IPC owns 2000AD, so is probably the more accurate owner, though the 2000AD label is perhaps more useful. Either way, they should be consistent.
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This game...
Warlord/Wartorn
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/1 ... m/War-Lord

was written by Jonathan Scott...
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/list?label_id=7439
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Juan F. Ramirez wrote: Fri Aug 21, 2020 10:59 am Sea War (Panda Software, 1982)

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

It says its genre is Strategy Game: War, and Multi-turn type: Turn-based.

I think it's clearly an arcade/shooter game.
Think I need to do a scan of my inlay, as that is white, and not blue :)
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The entry for The Hobbit:

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

should contain a reference to co-author Veronika Megler's 2014 paper on her part in writing it. The Internet Archive has a link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200607083 ... 0/vmegler/

The original link (to unimelb.edu.au) has been offline quite a while, so may have died. There's another link to the original PDF paper here:

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/4fea/f ... 3e09ec.pdf
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Just Imagine

Original publisher should be R&R Software Ltd (UK) who were reported to be releasing it in Crash November 1984 but then went into receivership in January 1985.

The Pirate Software version has a release date of 1986 for the tap, 1987 for the tzx and 'Unknown' in the release table. All of these should be 1988 as that's the date on the inlay.
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Sofkit 1 is filed as 16K only. The program came in two versions on a single tape instead, one for the 16K and one for the 48K.

It should then be filed as 16K/48K (separate programs).
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JetPac81 (1982)

Jetpac was released in April 1983, so this could not have been released in 1982.
http://www.fruitcake.plus.com/Sinclair/ ... itions.htm gives a date of 1983.
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Re: Little bugs in the database 4

Post by Alessandro »

Prepare for something really bizarre :)

The entry for Light Force contains a curious remark:
What the hell is that voting in the Crash Readers Awards for 1987 all about. As far as I remember, Lightforce didn't have any music and secondly it was released in 1986.
However if you take a look at Crash #38, March 1987, page 35, Light Force wasn't even nominated for best music - the winner was Ping Pong instead, as it is also remarked in its entry.

The "released in 1986" remark is also questionable, since annual awards are normally bestowed on products released the previous year. All titles awarded were released in 1986 in fact. Moreover, the article was most probably written around January of the same year.

But this is only the beginning. The Light Force ZXSR remarks section contains many errors. Some entries are duplicated, others are just plain wrong. The game was not only mentioned as the winner of also the second place in the Best Music award (!), but there are two entries for the 3rd place in the Best Advertising category - where Light Force, again, wasn't even nominated.

There is also a duplicated remark about a "Best Inlay" award which is nowhere to be found in the article (!!!)

Here is an image showing all duplicate and erroneous ZXSR remarks.

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Probably they were added by different people and in different times, without any care about inaccurate (to say the least, since some of these remarks are based on nothing but thin air) and/or duplicated entries.

My suggestion is to delete all of the duplicate and erroneous remarks, and as a consequence that "comment" at the end as well.

Side note: shouldn't Lightforce be added as an alternative title, since it is spelled that way in the game's tape inlay?

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Re: Little bugs in the database 4

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Alessandro wrote: Tue Sep 08, 2020 5:15 pm My suggestion is to delete all of the duplicate and erroneous remarks, and as a consequence that "comment" at the end as well.
The SU password is correct and relevant, although it might also be worth adding a comment to Great Eight 7 along the lines of "Light Force password: MISER".
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Re: Little bugs in the database 4

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[mention]Stu[/mention] I wasn't referring to the remark about the password of the SU cover tape (which is duplicated anyway), but to the remark I mentioned at the start of my previous post, which is both inaccurate and irrelevant.
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