Spectrum Computing

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

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?

Stu wrote: ↑Tue Sep 29, 2020 12:02 pm A Guide to Playing the Fourth Protocol

+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

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.

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?

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?

-- [PeterJ] https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?p=16177#p16177
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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?

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?

Einar Saukas wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 4:17 pm Finally does anyone know where to find magazine scans? Perhaps @Neil Parsons?

+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/