Subbuteo duplicate entries

[mrcook]

I was looking over the Skoolkids t2sfiles and noticed that Subbuteo was listed as broken, so I decided to take a quick peek. The game loader is broken, however, as this is a BASIC game it can be loaded manually with LOAD "".

The site is listing this game with 3 separate entries, however this is incorrect as they're all the same game. Here's the 3 entries:

1. https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/1 ... eo_Subgame
2. https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/1 ... m/Subbuteo
3. https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/1 ... um/Subgame

Here's my proposal of what needs changing:

* "Subbuteo + Subgame" is the one entry that has the tape image, so keep this, rename it to "Subbuteo" and delete the other two.
* The TZX is not a compilation so change the Genre to "Sport Game: Management"
* "TAPE B" is the BASIC game, "TAPE A" contains the same team data that is found on tape B but without the rest of the BASIC code. At the every least swap the tape A/B names, and possibly just delete the current TAPE A.

Here's the tape blocks :

TAPE A:

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DATA BLOCKS:
#01 Text Description    : Created with Ramsoft MakeTZX
#02 Standard Speed Data: 19 bytes, pause for 1006 ms
    - BASIC Program
    - Filename        : SUBBUTEO  
    - AutoStartLine   : 32851
#03 Standard Speed Data: 4167 bytes, pause for 30445 ms
    - Standard Data: 4165 bytes

TAPE B:

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DATA BLOCKS:
#01 Text Description    : Created with Ramsoft MakeTZX
#02 Standard Speed Data: 19 bytes, pause for 1002 ms
    - BASIC Program
    - Filename        : SUBGAME   
    - AutoStartLine   : 32768
#03 Standard Speed Data: 41006 bytes, pause for 37514 ms
    - Standard Data: 41004 bytes

You can view the BASIC by just opening the tape manually (I used FUSE) and LISTing it.

I did submit a change to the entry (on the HELP! section), but maybe that was not the correct thing to do, so I'm posting this here.

P.S. I did upload a SCR of the game playing, which is certainly a little more colourful than the current teams listing!

P.P.S. alas, there's no mention of a date, or even a coder in the BASIC.

✓ Reviewed

[druellan]

Thanks, this is a good catch! I need to review this thoroughly to make sure I understand why it has 3 entries, but I think your fix is spot on.