Little bugs in the database 2
Re: Little bugs in the database 2
CJ's Elephant Antics
1st Division Manager
A reference to a non-existent Crash review on page 65 of issue 91 has appeared on both these pages.
1st Division Manager
A reference to a non-existent Crash review on page 65 of issue 91 has appeared on both these pages.
- Juan F. Ramirez
- Bugaboo
- Posts: 5148
- Joined: Tue Nov 14, 2017 6:55 am
- Location: Málaga, Spain
Re: Little bugs in the database 2
Centi-Bugs (DK'Tronics):
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.php?cat=96&id=865
It's got 'Centibug' as alternate name ('Also known as'). But according to the loading screen, couldn't be also known as 'Centipede'?
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.php?cat=96&id=865
It's got 'Centibug' as alternate name ('Also known as'). But according to the loading screen, couldn't be also known as 'Centipede'?
✓ Reviewed
Re: Little bugs in the database 2
Night Gunner (Spectrum Version)
- 1982 Sinclair User review is for a 16K Spectrum version, rather than the 48k, and means the original release year should be 1982
- there should be a link to the ZX81 version
- the Silverbird release is in the wrong position and the Byte Back date of 1983 is incorrect. The order should be:
Original: Digital Integration 1982 (16K version), price £4.95 according to SU review
#1 Digital Integration 1983 (48K version)
#1 ABC 1983
#2 Zafi Chip 1986
#3 Z-Cobra 1987
#4 Silverbird 1989
#5 Byte Back 1991 (©1991 Byte Back is printed on the cassette: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/HOkAAOSw ... -l1600.jpg)
Night Gunner (ZX81 16K)
- there should be a link to the Spectrum version
- the author of this version is David K Marshall according to this Retro Gamer Interview
Fighter Pilot (ZX81 16K) - needs a new entry
- the same page as the 16K Night Gunner review also has a review of the ZX81 version of Fighter Pilot
- released by Digital Integration in 1982 with a price of £5.95 (from the Sinclair User review)
- author is David K Marshall again (from the Retro Gamer interview)
- should have a link to the Spectrum version.
- 1982 Sinclair User review is for a 16K Spectrum version, rather than the 48k, and means the original release year should be 1982
- there should be a link to the ZX81 version
- the Silverbird release is in the wrong position and the Byte Back date of 1983 is incorrect. The order should be:
Original: Digital Integration 1982 (16K version), price £4.95 according to SU review
#1 Digital Integration 1983 (48K version)
#1 ABC 1983
#2 Zafi Chip 1986
#3 Z-Cobra 1987
#4 Silverbird 1989
#5 Byte Back 1991 (©1991 Byte Back is printed on the cassette: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/HOkAAOSw ... -l1600.jpg)
Night Gunner (ZX81 16K)
- there should be a link to the Spectrum version
- the author of this version is David K Marshall according to this Retro Gamer Interview
Fighter Pilot (ZX81 16K) - needs a new entry
- the same page as the 16K Night Gunner review also has a review of the ZX81 version of Fighter Pilot
- released by Digital Integration in 1982 with a price of £5.95 (from the Sinclair User review)
- author is David K Marshall again (from the Retro Gamer interview)
- should have a link to the Spectrum version.
✓ Reviewed
Re: Little bugs in the database 2
Zzzz
Chiller
Cover art is by John Smyth according to John Smyth in the Facebook Mastertronic Collectors Group.
Chiller
Cover art is by John Smyth according to John Smyth in the Facebook Mastertronic Collectors Group.
✓ Reviewed
- Juan F. Ramirez
- Bugaboo
- Posts: 5148
- Joined: Tue Nov 14, 2017 6:55 am
- Location: Málaga, Spain
Re: Little bugs in the database 2
An interesting case, I think:
Kentilla, by Micromega. Coded by Derek Brewster. The instructions refers to Velnor's Lair (also by the same author):
"[...] As the world rejoiced, other sinister plans were afoot. VELNOR - the
evil sorcerer long-since vanquished for the black arts he practised
(see VELNOR'S LAIR from Quicksilva) - was planning revenge. [...]"
Can we considered Kentilla as the sequel to Velnor's Lair (and create a series with both games)?
Kentilla, by Micromega. Coded by Derek Brewster. The instructions refers to Velnor's Lair (also by the same author):
"[...] As the world rejoiced, other sinister plans were afoot. VELNOR - the
evil sorcerer long-since vanquished for the black arts he practised
(see VELNOR'S LAIR from Quicksilva) - was planning revenge. [...]"
Can we considered Kentilla as the sequel to Velnor's Lair (and create a series with both games)?
✓ Reviewed
Re: Little bugs in the database 2
Penetrator
Release date is 1982, not 1983. Advertised in the Popular Computing Weekly classifieds in the first week of December 1982, and also in the December 1982 issue of Sinclair User.
Release date is 1982, not 1983. Advertised in the Popular Computing Weekly classifieds in the first week of December 1982, and also in the December 1982 issue of Sinclair User.
✓ Reviewed
Re: Little bugs in the database 2
Some time ago I've sent by e-mail some corrections to the database and then I was sent the link to this topic as it would be the best place to talk about these small changes.
I've since forgotten about it, but now that I've opened an account here, I thought maybe now we could take care of that.
So, I'll be giving some more details about games I was directly involved with:
Varina - https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=34618
André Leão - Beta Tester, Promoter, Manager (don't know if these last two can be accepted on the database)
Filipe Veiga - Graphics, Code
Mário Viegas - Game Design, Screen Art
Pedro Pimenta - Music
Droid Buster - https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=34679
Ariel Endaraues - Game Design, Code
Juan Antonio Fernandez - Screen Art
Pedro Pimenta- Music
Moritz Strikes Back - https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=34680
Andy Green (2) - Screen Art
Pedro Pimenta - Music
Sebastian Braunert - Game design
Uwe Geiken - Art, Code
Also, how can a new game be added to the database? I'd like to add "The Hair-Raising Adventures of Mr. Hair" that you can find here: https://chopz.itch.io/the-hair-raising- ... of-mr-hair
If you decide to add it, I can already give the credits:
Andy Green (2) - Screen Art
Lee Stevenson - Game Design, Code
Pedro Pimenta - Music
I've since forgotten about it, but now that I've opened an account here, I thought maybe now we could take care of that.
So, I'll be giving some more details about games I was directly involved with:
Varina - https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=34618
André Leão - Beta Tester, Promoter, Manager (don't know if these last two can be accepted on the database)
Filipe Veiga - Graphics, Code
Mário Viegas - Game Design, Screen Art
Pedro Pimenta - Music
Droid Buster - https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=34679
Ariel Endaraues - Game Design, Code
Juan Antonio Fernandez - Screen Art
Pedro Pimenta- Music
Moritz Strikes Back - https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=34680
Andy Green (2) - Screen Art
Pedro Pimenta - Music
Sebastian Braunert - Game design
Uwe Geiken - Art, Code
Also, how can a new game be added to the database? I'd like to add "The Hair-Raising Adventures of Mr. Hair" that you can find here: https://chopz.itch.io/the-hair-raising- ... of-mr-hair
If you decide to add it, I can already give the credits:
Andy Green (2) - Screen Art
Lee Stevenson - Game Design, Code
Pedro Pimenta - Music
✓ Reviewed
Re: Little bugs in the database 2
Cheers. I've already got this in the queue to add as part of the next update. They happen every couple of weeks, more or less.jumperror wrote: ↑Mon Dec 16, 2019 5:30 pm Also, how can a new game be added to the database? I'd like to add "The Hair-Raising Adventures of Mr. Hair" that you can find here: https://chopz.itch.io/the-hair-raising- ... of-mr-hair
If you decide to add it, I can already give the credits:
Andy Green (2) - Screen Art
Lee Stevenson - Game Design, Code
Pedro Pimenta - Music
Re: Little bugs in the database 2
Interesting finding, and I was thinking that this might be one of the first games to include an ingame editor?StooB wrote: ↑Tue Dec 10, 2019 10:46 am Penetrator
Release date is 1982, not 1983. Advertised in the Popular Computing Weekly classifieds in the first week of December 1982, and also in the December 1982 issue of Sinclair User.
Re: Little bugs in the database 2
Melbourne House must have thought so as the adverts describe it as a "unique customizing feature". I can only find one earlier example and that's Munchkin from 1981 - but that was for the Magnavox Odyssey.
Time Gate
Was released in 1982, not 1983. It's at No. 1 in the Spectrum charts in the last week of 1982.
✓ Reviewed
Re: Little bugs in the database 2
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... el_id=9809
Mikhail, Russia
Current nickname: Kael (https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... el_id=7858)
Other nicknames: M!KAEL, amok, MIKAEL, M.I.KAEL
Was part of Bitmunchers group, now part of Mayhem group.
Mikhail, Russia
Current nickname: Kael (https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... el_id=7858)
Other nicknames: M!KAEL, amok, MIKAEL, M.I.KAEL
Was part of Bitmunchers group, now part of Mayhem group.
✓ Reviewed
Re: Little bugs in the database 2
Joe Blob (https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=35146) was developed by Filipe Veiga of Espectroteam, not P. Veiga.
Just confirmed by [mention]Andre Leao[/mention]
Just confirmed by [mention]Andre Leao[/mention]
✓ Reviewed
Re: Little bugs in the database 2
Hi [mention]moroz1999[/mention] This means that "Grepan" as a group does not exists, right?moroz1999 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 30, 2019 8:43 pm https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=12779 Grepan (Russia), author of Color Lines, are actually three people:
Vadim Grepan
Sergey Grepan
Svetlana Kolganova
All three are from Moscow, Russia.
Re: Little bugs in the database 2
Valley of Rains should have machine type 48K/128K, rather than 48K, as the 48K and 128K versions are different.
✓ Reviewed
- pavero
- Dynamite Dan
- Posts: 1599
- Joined: Sat Dec 09, 2017 11:49 pm
- Location: The Czech Republic
- Contact:
Re: Little bugs in the database 2
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=16709
Correct title: Clovek, nehnevaj sa (not Clovek)
Genre: Game: Board
Maximum Players: 4
Correct title: Clovek, nehnevaj sa (not Clovek)
Genre: Game: Board
Maximum Players: 4
✓ Reviewed
- pavero
- Dynamite Dan
- Posts: 1599
- Joined: Sat Dec 09, 2017 11:49 pm
- Location: The Czech Republic
- Contact:
Re: Little bugs in the database 2
Poradce
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=3837
Author: Martin Maly
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... el_id=9315
'Martin Malg' label can be removed (typing error only)
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... el_id=9313
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=3837
Author: Martin Maly
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... el_id=9315
'Martin Malg' label can be removed (typing error only)
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... el_id=9313
✓ Reviewed
Re: Little bugs in the database 2
Redshift (34714) was released in 2019, not 2018.
[mention]Ivanzx[/mention] bugfixes are ZXDB, not website, and should go in this thread.
[mention]Ivanzx[/mention] bugfixes are ZXDB, not website, and should go in this thread.
✓ Reviewed
- pavero
- Dynamite Dan
- Posts: 1599
- Joined: Sat Dec 09, 2017 11:49 pm
- Location: The Czech Republic
- Contact:
Re: Little bugs in the database 2
Mezi Věžemi
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=15216
Original Release Year: 1999
(confirms by the authror himself)
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=15216
Original Release Year: 1999
(confirms by the authror himself)
✓ Reviewed
Re: Little bugs in the database 2
Judging by the dates on Twitter, Chase The Ace, Computalk, Pangolin, Dog Walk, and Space 1999 were released in 2019, not 2018.
✓ Reviewed
Re: Little bugs in the database 2
Sent to me via email from Graham Richards:
Spectrum Computing erroneously states the original release of Balachor's Revenge as being by Lasasoft.
Lasasoft are the programming team. Original release for this sequel was by Monument Microgames and was not distributed by Lasasoft until the physical release had been out a while. It has not yet been re-released but will be.
Ooh, and can you credit Sophie Ann Fretter for the music on Monument's release of Castle Capers? Thank you.
Spectrum Computing erroneously states the original release of Balachor's Revenge as being by Lasasoft.
Lasasoft are the programming team. Original release for this sequel was by Monument Microgames and was not distributed by Lasasoft until the physical release had been out a while. It has not yet been re-released but will be.
Ooh, and can you credit Sophie Ann Fretter for the music on Monument's release of Castle Capers? Thank you.
✓ Reviewed
Re: Little bugs in the database 2
I have been quite intrigued by La Abadía del Crimen and noticed there were several mentions of an unofficial English translation including this full playthrough on YouTube but no obvious download links for an English version. After a lot of dead-end searches I discovered that MAME supports it (well, the English Beta at least), and from that I got the "ROM name" which led me to a serviceable TZX image here at TZXVault. It doesn't use a turbo loader so it converted fine to a TAP which works with my DIVMMC Future (having used tapeconv from fuse-utils).
Please can this file be added to the ZXDB entry to save someone else the hassle in future?
Please can this file be added to the ZXDB entry to save someone else the hassle in future?
✓ Reviewed
Re: ZX Parachute
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=3470
this should be transliterated as:
Nu, pogodi!
please correct this entry in the database.
this should be transliterated as:
Nu, pogodi!
please correct this entry in the database.
✓ Reviewed