Re: Little bugs in the database 2
Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2019 9:40 am
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Agreed. And the language should be Russian, not Czech. Correct [mention]abelinki[/mention], [mention]pavero[/mention]?abelenki wrote: ↑Fri Jan 10, 2020 1:44 am https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=3470
this should be transliterated as:
Nu, pogodi!
please correct this entry in the database.
I would say the language is correct. The author is Czech. And there are some texts in Czech language in the game, only some of them are in Cyrillic.R-Tape wrote: ↑Fri Jan 10, 2020 5:07 amAgreed. And the language should be Russian, not Czech. Correct @abelinki, @pavero?abelenki wrote: ↑Fri Jan 10, 2020 1:44 am https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=3470
this should be transliterated as:
Nu, pogodi!
please correct this entry in the database.
Agreed.StooB wrote: ↑Fri Jan 10, 2020 10:35 am Spectrum Six Pack
- original release year is 1984, not 1985
- publisher is Sinclair Research, not whoever Polanglia were
- original price should be "Free" not £8.50
- comment of "contents vary" is not helpful and should be deleted, the actual contents are:
I notice that the current ZXDB entry in fact contains the attached readme that would have accompanied this unofficial English translation. For the record, the translator is Eddie Duffy. Based on what I've read, Juan Delcan wasn't only the cover artist (as the current ZXDB entry shows) - it seems he was the artist for the game.patters wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2020 8:56 pm 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?
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and the inspiration should be John Buchan's book rather than the film, as it features a dying American spy called Scadder who is obviously derived from Franklin P Scudder.(https://the.hitchcock.zone/wiki/Miss_Annabella_Smith).8BitAG wrote: ↑Wed Jan 22, 2020 5:48 pm The Thirty-Nine Steps
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=7103
...isn't a Spectrum 48K game... it's a Spectrum 128K *only* game.
Well, the inspiration could be a film, but not the Hitchcock one as the shadowy organisation's name follows the book rather than the film. Jack usually used books as inspiration, rather than films, so I would say, yes, change the inspiration source.StooB wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2020 12:33 pmand the inspiration should be John Buchan's book rather than the film, as it features a dying American spy called Scadder who is obviously derived from Franklin P Scudder.(https://the.hitchcock.zone/wiki/Miss_Annabella_Smith).8BitAG wrote: ↑Wed Jan 22, 2020 5:48 pm The Thirty-Nine Steps
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=7103
...isn't a Spectrum 48K game... it's a Spectrum 128K *only* game.
I have discussed this with Graz. The Lasasoft and Monument releases came out at the same time. Can they be marked as co-releases in ZXDB/SC, as that would be most accurate?PeterJ wrote: ↑Mon Jan 06, 2020 7:03 am 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.
There's no concept of "co-releases" in ZXDB. It's either:Rorthron wrote: ↑Sun Jan 26, 2020 10:34 pmI have discussed this with Graz. The Lasasoft and Monument releases came out at the same time. Can they be marked as co-releases in ZXDB/SC, as that would be most accurate?PeterJ wrote: ↑Mon Jan 06, 2020 7:03 am 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.