Unknown discovered games from Romania
Unknown discovered games from Romania
Another news from Spectrum games world that some of you maybe missed.
Some weeks ago a very interesting post on Facebook appeared but as I know it went unnoticed on old WOS and we didn't have Spectrum Computing yet.
Out of the blue some helpful man (sorry, I forgot your name, friend) uploaded 3 full casettes of previously unknown games from Romania
Some screenshots:
and the download:
https://www.sendspace.com/file/z4fsb6
The look really decent. Play much worse unfortunately (try them). But if I was the author then I would be still very proud
Admins, would you be interested in adding them to the database?
Some weeks ago a very interesting post on Facebook appeared but as I know it went unnoticed on old WOS and we didn't have Spectrum Computing yet.
Out of the blue some helpful man (sorry, I forgot your name, friend) uploaded 3 full casettes of previously unknown games from Romania
Some screenshots:
and the download:
https://www.sendspace.com/file/z4fsb6
The look really decent. Play much worse unfortunately (try them). But if I was the author then I would be still very proud
Admins, would you be interested in adding them to the database?
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Re: Unknown discovered games from Romania
Certainly. Thank you!!!
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Sendspace is getting worse, when it finally lets me download my PC blocks it.
^^I'll look forward to seeing these on the site then. They do look great, I'm guessing they all have character based movement?
^^I'll look forward to seeing these on the site then. They do look great, I'm guessing they all have character based movement?
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I have taken the liberty of putting the download onto my Dropbox. This should be easier to access than Sendspace until we can get them on the site.
Thanks to [mention]Ralf[/mention] for letting us know about these.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/katdli01tenh ... cvI-a?dl=0
Thanks to [mention]Ralf[/mention] for letting us know about these.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/katdli01tenh ... cvI-a?dl=0
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Oh those are the games I mentioned in a post in WoS some weeks ago! I know the guy in Facebook, and he said months ago that he had recovered some games from his country, Romania, but since WoS was sooo out, I had lost my interest then.
Thanks for recovering them, Ralf!
Thanks for recovering them, Ralf!
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I have just done a Google translate of one of the titles and I'm not sure it's appropriate....
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I will get the screens to you over the weekend [mention]Einar Saukas[/mention]
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Great!Certainly. Thank you!!!
If you check the download they are on 3 cassettes. So in the database they would be compilations. Does ZXDB already support compilations?
I could actually volunteer to create proper info with titles, years, genres and so on. But what structure should it have? Do we have some template for enterning new games data?
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And I'm afraid I'm sureI'm not quite sure what the chap is doing in Futai (Tape One)
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I'm picking my way through these and while some of them are howlers, all show promise and are great to browse through. There's some great beeper music, I think from bespoke code.
I'd like to see Robotank with the playability issues removed (keypresses, unfair reaction times).
I'd like to see Robotank with the playability issues removed (keypresses, unfair reaction times).
I couldn't get it to load but it did manage to fill the screen with a giant yellow penis!
Re: Unknown discovered games from Romania
Nice find.
What era are these games from?
What era are these games from?
My Speccy site: thirdharmoniser.com
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Ah OK cool - should have probably guessed 90s...
My Speccy site: thirdharmoniser.com
Re: Unknown discovered games from Romania
Not that I know any Romanian, but I get some words:
Vieti » Lifes
Viata » Life
Jucator » Player
Viteza » Speed
Timp » Time
Validare » Validate / OK
Relatively obvious if you speak Latin languages, but since this is an english language forum, it may be helpful for playing.
Vieti » Lifes
Viata » Life
Jucator » Player
Viteza » Speed
Timp » Time
Validare » Validate / OK
Relatively obvious if you speak Latin languages, but since this is an english language forum, it may be helpful for playing.
Re: Unknown discovered games from Romania
Hmm.
We need a new genre for a Solo beat em up in which you run around with a bonk on trying to club a little bald guy that kills you with his deadly urine stream.
Einar, make it so.
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Re: Unknown discovered games from Romania
Sorry for the late reply, I missed your question before
The question is, are they "official" compilations? In the sense that they were either released as compilation with proper author approval and/or these compilations were well known in the country.
I'm asking because, if it just happened that someone took these games from different sources, saved them on the same tape at home, and copied to a couple friends, then these games probably shouldn't be stored as compilation. Just as individual titles.
Yes. ZXDB supports absolutely everything supported by old WoS archive (and more).
The question is, are they "official" compilations? In the sense that they were either released as compilation with proper author approval and/or these compilations were well known in the country.
I'm asking because, if it just happened that someone took these games from different sources, saved them on the same tape at home, and copied to a couple friends, then these games probably shouldn't be stored as compilation. Just as individual titles.
There's no template yet. R-Tape is currently handling this work so I will leave this question for him
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Please also add this game to ZXDB, but properly marked as x-rated. This way, it will be blocked from appearing at Spectrum Computing (according to this site policy) but it will be still preserved at ZXDB, in case other ZXDB-based sites decide later to adopt different filtering.
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Check out that UDG tractor in, err, Tractor!
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[mention]Einar Saukas[/mention] Yep I will add it, I was just funning. Only one of them is adult.
[mention]Ralf[/mention] This thread is a bit old now and considered asking you without realising you'd already offered!
I've already made a start on this one but if you're willing to collate these I would be grateful as you may understand more of the details than me. I'm a bit unsure about some of the author's names.
If you're still willing I'll get the template to you tomorrow.
[mention]Ralf[/mention] This thread is a bit old now and considered asking you without realising you'd already offered!
I've already made a start on this one but if you're willing to collate these I would be grateful as you may understand more of the details than me. I'm a bit unsure about some of the author's names.
If you're still willing I'll get the template to you tomorrow.
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My first thought was that this scene must have placed a lot of focus on graphics. There is some really nice work. I guess if you have a lot of time on your hands and motivation graphics is a good place to put your energy. Hard to say but my guess is there had to have been some sharing of information about graphics programming locally. What is weird is there seems to have been a huge amount of skill/effort put into the graphics but not the controls.
Just goes to show what you can do under very difficult circumstances. Crap controls aside I would have been ecstatic if I could have gotten the types of graphics on my games What makes it even more impressive is this was probably all developed on the actual machine itself.
Just goes to show what you can do under very difficult circumstances. Crap controls aside I would have been ecstatic if I could have gotten the types of graphics on my games What makes it even more impressive is this was probably all developed on the actual machine itself.
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Well, yes I'm offering to help. The template could be useful.
I don't know Romanian but suppose will be able to get author's names, years, genres and so on correctly.
I suppose these compilations are released by the authors. They are realeased very unprofessionally without any fancy cassette inlays but I suppose that's how it was. The authors were probably 18 years old or so and they sold about 50 copies of their game by giving ad in some newspaper and sending casssetes by post.
Of course if anybody knows more, I'll be glad to learn. Do we have any members from Romania here?
I don't know Romanian but suppose will be able to get author's names, years, genres and so on correctly.
I suppose these compilations are released by the authors. They are realeased very unprofessionally without any fancy cassette inlays but I suppose that's how it was. The authors were probably 18 years old or so and they sold about 50 copies of their game by giving ad in some newspaper and sending casssetes by post.
Of course if anybody knows more, I'll be glad to learn. Do we have any members from Romania here?
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Perhaps someone could get in touch with the folks at https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Rom ... meComputer to find out more.