Little bugs in the database 3

[druellan]

Hi! Looking at the info [mention]Rorthron[/mention] uncovered about Players on the Covert Artists thread, I've found that usually Sonic Graffiti is credited for the music on the ZXDB, but they are mentioned on the instructions as "original music", and then usually Andy Severn ported the music to the Spectrum. Sonic Graffiti was usually Gerrard Gourley, that worked on many platforms, so, we are not sure about the source.

Some examples:

The Race:
ORIGINAL MUSIC BY SONIC GRAFFITI
MUSIC CONVERSION BY ANDY SEVERN

Saigon Combat Unit:
ORIGINAL MUSIC SCORE: SONIC GRAFFITI
AY MUSIC CONVERSION: ANDY SEVERN

3D Snooker:
MUSIC by SONIC GRAFFITI and converted by ANDY SEVERN

Mutant Fortress:
AY music Sonic Graffiti
AY player & conversion Andy Severn

So, right now I'm crediting both Sonic Graffiti and Andy Severn for the music, I think this is the correct way to do it. What do you think?

[moroz1999]

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... el_id=1333
Ascendancy Creative Labs, team from Belarus, Grodno

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[moroz1999]

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... l_id=14468 imho, The Oliver Twins is not a person, but team or company of Andrew and Philip Oliver (who are persons).

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[moroz1999]

viewtopic.php?f=32&t=1425&p=25075&hilit=Izhevsk#p25075 - please take a look at my comments. I've just noticed that Izhevsk is still in database. It's a mistake, it's not a label, it's a city in Russia.

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[PeterJ]

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... l_id=14468 imho, The Oliver Twins is not a person, but team or company of Andrew and Philip Oliver (who are persons).

Hi, I'm not sure the Oliver Twins were a company. All their work went through Codemasters didn't it?

I agree it should be in this case 'Persons', rather than 'Person' which would be more appropriate, but the only options we have currently are as follows:

[sho]

HI,
Avalon + Dragontorc has a MIA release date.
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=15868

Release info can be found in a Jan. 1986 issue of Popular Computing Weekly:
https://archive.org/details/popular-com ... 5/mode/1up

(should it also be added as News/note?)

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[Rorthron]

Hi! Looking at the info @Rorthron uncovered about Players on the Covert Artists thread, I've found that usually Sonic Graffiti is credited for the music on the ZXDB, but they are mentioned on the instructions as "original music", and then usually Andy Severn ported the music to the Spectrum. Sonic Graffiti was usually Gerrard Gourley, that worked on many platforms, so, we are not sure about the source.

Some examples:

The Race:
ORIGINAL MUSIC BY SONIC GRAFFITI
MUSIC CONVERSION BY ANDY SEVERN

Saigon Combat Unit:
ORIGINAL MUSIC SCORE: SONIC GRAFFITI
AY MUSIC CONVERSION: ANDY SEVERN

3D Snooker:
MUSIC by SONIC GRAFFITI and converted by ANDY SEVERN

Mutant Fortress:
AY music Sonic Graffiti
AY player & conversion Andy Severn

So, right now I'm crediting both Sonic Graffiti and Andy Severn for the music, I think this is the correct way to do it. What do you think?

Seems reasonable to me.

[Turrican]

There are 2 videos for Bronx game (the Spanish one). And one of them is from Twice Shy game.

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[sho]

HI,
Avalon + Dragontorc has a MIA release date.
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=15868

Release info can be found in a Jan. 1986 issue of Popular Computing Weekly:
https://archive.org/details/popular-com ... 5/mode/1up

(should it also be added as News/note?)

And another
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/mag.php ... 88&page=32

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[moroz1999]

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... l_id=19393
Sanyok (short form of Alexander), label of Aleksandr Duryagin from Ukhta, Russia


https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... l_id=19191
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... l_id=19192
Demens Deum is nickname of Ilya Prokhorov


https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... l_id=19182
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... l_id=19183
Gooseberry Code is not a company, it's nickname of Anatoliy Kuris


https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... l_id=13400
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... l_id=19184
Vyacheslav Tretyak and Sinus is the same person, he is not from Russia, he is from Grodno, Belarus

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... el_id=9273
Route to Jupiter is a Group from Ukraine.

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... el_id=9377
Mat & Ziutek label should either become a team or be split to Mat (Maciej J. Woloszyk) and Ziutek (Andrzej Siuda) separately.


https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... bel_id=264
Age & Ega are a team:
Andrey Yegorov, Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia
Grigoriy Yegorov, Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... l_id=10100
N. Novgorod is not a person or label, this is Nizhniy Novgorod city, Russia

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... el_id=6412
Izhevsk is not a person or label, this is Izhevsk city, Russia.

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[moroz1999]

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... l_id=13199
Shadow Soft (Russia) is not a company, it's nickname of Vladimir Kladov.

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[Rorthron]

The information on Software Farm's high-res ZX81 releases is inaccurate and incomplete:

ROCKET MAN

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=29249

FORTY-NINER

This has two IDs with different publishers and other information differences:

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=28887
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=28888

I think they should probably be consolidated under the publisher Software Farm.

BOOSTER

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=32003

Incidentally contains a useless comment that should perhaps be deleted.

Z-XTRICATOR

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=31886

All three games are missing information. The following link has most of it, including high-res inlay scans:

http://www.pictureviewerpro.com/hosting ... refarm.htm

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[Einar Saukas]

I recently added Legends Of Bytes to ZXDB. This magazine is an excellent source of information about Speccy game authors! Someone fluent in Russian should be able to obtain lots of useful information still missing from our database.

It's currently published by a guy called Gennadiy. If someone has his contact information and could invite him to our forum, I bet he would enjoy participating in this thread

[Juan F. Ramirez]

Hercules by Alpha- Omega Software:

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=2298

The existing inlay is actually the Power House re-release.

The original A-O Software inlay is in [mention]Mort[/mention] 's archive.org site:

https://ia800701.us.archive.org/view_ar ... nlay01.jpg

I'm sure we'll have it here soon!

By the way, the artist in the game entry is Tim White. I suppose it refers to the Power House re-release inlay, and, if you see the AO inlay above, it seems have been made by Phil Gascoine because of the drawing style and the signature.

What do you think?

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[Einar Saukas]

Hercules by Alpha- Omega Software:

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=2298

The existing inlay is actually the Power House re-release.

Correct.

This inlay currently has the following description: "Cassette inlay (#1)".

This page has a section called RELEASES that contains the following line: "Re-release #1: The Power House".

My apologies if the way this information is presented wasn't clear enough.

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[Rorthron]

The information on Software Farm's high-res ZX81 releases is inaccurate and incomplete:

ROCKET MAN

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=29249

FORTY-NINER

This has two IDs with different publishers and other information differences:

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=28887
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=28888

I think they should probably be consolidated under the publisher Software Farm.

BOOSTER

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=32003

Incidentally contains a useless comment that should perhaps be deleted.

Z-XTRICATOR

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=31886

All three games are missing information. The following link has most of it, including high-res inlay scans:

http://www.pictureviewerpro.com/hosting ... refarm.htm

I should also have included SPECTRUMISER in this list. The link above contains additional material for this title, too.

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[Rorthron]

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... l_id=14468 imho, The Oliver Twins is not a person, but team or company of Andrew and Philip Oliver (who are persons).

Hi, I'm not sure the Oliver Twins were a company. All their work went through Codemasters didn't it?

I agree it should be in this case 'Persons', rather than 'Person' which would be more appropriate, but the only options we have currently are as follows:

Can they not be changed to two separate People, and connected to a Team called The Oliver Twins? There seem to be plenty of situations already like this.

[PeterJ]

I will let [mention]Einar Saukas[/mention] answer that one [mention]Rorthron[/mention].

[Ralf]

Russian text adventure game Plutoniya:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=12997

is inspired by the book of the same name (Plutonia):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonia_(novel)

The book itself seems heavily inspired by "Journey to the Centre of the Earth" but we don't go that far with inspirations info.

By the way, you may watch my recent rzx recording of it. The language may be a barrier but you can enjoy the graphics (and these guys did a lot of work with it):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... e=emb_logo

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[Alessandro]

Le Lu-Lu's is considered as two separate entries when they should be merged into one. Check their only title, a MIA compilation of two games:

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=9524

and the review in Sinclair User Nov 1987, which also lists their address:

https://archive.org/stream/sinclair-use ... 9/mode/1up

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[Alessandro]

The TZX tape dumps of 10 Computer Hits 5 are already in the database, therefore I don't see a reason not to include the +3 DSK disk dumps as well.

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[Einar Saukas]

Run Baby Run

Original publisher should be Micro Gold as mentioned here, and the price was £2.75.

I'm not sure about this one.

The article from December 1983 says "it will be retailing its first releases, two Spectrum games called Race Ace and Run, Baby, Run, at £2.75".

It sounds it was just their plan. There's no confirmation that's how it really happened in the end.

[StooB]

I'm not sure about this one.

The article from December 1983 says "it will be retailing its first releases, two Spectrum games called Race Ace and Run, Baby, Run, at £2.75".

It sounds it was just their plan. There's no confirmation that's how it really happened in the end.

from the "Sinclair For Show" Facebook group:

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[Einar Saukas]

I'm not sure about this one.

The article from December 1983 says "it will be retailing its first releases, two Spectrum games called Race Ace and Run, Baby, Run, at £2.75".

It sounds it was just their plan. There's no confirmation that's how it really happened in the end.

from the "Sinclair For Show" Facebook group:

Awesome, thank you!

[Einar Saukas]

I recently added Legends Of Bytes to ZXDB. This magazine is an excellent source of information about Speccy game authors! Someone fluent in Russian should be able to obtain lots of useful information still missing from our database.

It's currently published by a guy called Gennadiy. If someone has his contact information and could invite him to our forum, I bet he would enjoy participating in this thread

I noticed a printing mistake in this magazine: David Taylor's nickname is "Tink", not "Pink".

Except for this, everything else seem very accurate!