Recognise the type-in?

[R-Tape]

Here's a thread for MIA games that have appeared that may or may not be original. If you recognise one as a type-in (or obviously copied, modded or cracked from something else) then please shout out. Here are some for starters...

Towering Inferno


Turtle

[WhatHoSnorkers]

"Turtle" looks identical to "Turtle Bridge" which is chapter 4 of Richard G Hurley's "15 Graphic Games for the Spectrum", Micro Press, 1983. Especially if line 1 is a REM statement with mchine code in it.

[Kweepa]

Towering Inferno looks similar to the game Bounce in the DB. I feel like there are a lot like this, but usually the tower is on the left of the screen (like the Game and Watch Fire game they are based on).

[Ivanzx]

Towering Inferno looks similar to the game Bounce in the DB. I feel like there are a lot like this, but usually the tower is on the left of the screen (like the Game and Watch Fire game they are based on).

Thanks! You mean this one, right?

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/3 ... rum/Bounce

[Ivanzx]

"Turtle" looks identical to "Turtle Bridge" which is chapter 4 of Richard G Hurley's "15 Graphic Games for the Spectrum", Micro Press, 1983. Especially if line 1 is a REM statement with mchine code in it.

Ace! How did you remember?! The game is not even yet in the SC database

https://ia600604.us.archive.org/view_ar ... .Soft).pdf

[WhatHoSnorkers]

Ace! How did you remember?! The game is not even yet in the SC database

https://ia600604.us.archive.org/view_ar ... .Soft).pdf

I've got the book and the screenshot "rang a bell". I DID have to flicking through a few books to find it though.

[R-Tape]

Towering Inferno looks similar to the game Bounce in the DB. I feel like there are a lot like this, but usually the tower is on the left of the screen (like the Game and Watch Fire game they are based on).

Yeah similar. Towering Inferno does play better and has more to it. It gets a bit tricky here - given that Bounce is 1983 it's likely that TI is 'inspired by' Bounce, but that's all assumption. I'll just leave that ID as it is unless we have more info.

[R-Tape]

I've got the book and the screenshot "rang a bell". I DID have to flicking through a few books to find it though.

Incredible sir. Yep that's the one, and Turtle has been inputted faithfully without modding, so that can be archived as the one. The SQL will be queued.

[WhatHoSnorkers]

Incredible sir. Yep that's the one, and Turtle has been inputted faithfully without modding, so that can be archived as the one. The SQL will be queued.

I just typed it in too (and submitted). There are some bits where the printing has clearly gone a bit dodgy so I corrected those in my version to match the screenshot. The book gets points for having graphics characters clearly underlined, and for using a good font. Loses points for odd spacing and having 42 characters per line.

It fits in a 16K Spectrum too!

[PeterJ]

@R-Tape,

I have updated the title of this entry from Turtle to Turtle Bridge, and uploaded the files which @WhatHoSnorkers sent me.

@pavero & @Einar Saukas, I can't seem to link an entry to a book via the preservation tools. Have I missed something?

Please could you link it to '"Turtle Bridge" which is chapter 4 of Richard G Hurley's "15 Graphic Games for the Spectrum", Micro Press, 1983'

Thanks

Peter

[R-Tape]

@R-Tape,

I have updated the title of this entry from Turtle to Turtle Bridge, and uploaded the files which @WhatHoSnorkers sent me.

@pavero & @Einar Saukas, I can't seem to link an entry to a book via the preservation tools. Have I missed something?

Please could you link it to '"Turtle Bridge" which is chapter 4 of Richard G Hurley's "15 Graphic Games for the Spectrum", Micro Press, 1983'

Ta Peter. I sent Einar the code to make the book link this morning. It can't be done in the preservation tools at the moment, and in this case it had to wait until the ID existed in ZXDB first.

[pavero]

@pavero & @Einar Saukas, I can't seem to link an entry to a book via the preservation tools. Have I missed something?

Peter

Now you can only add info/link for Einar in the comment field.

[zxbruno]

I thought this topic would be about people who submitted software as their own when it was actually made by someone else. Now I'm curious if such topic was ever covered. I remember we covered the topic of art that was borrowed from somewhere else, but I'm almost certain there were people who submitted POKEs or other material just to see their name in magazines, even if they weren't the authors.

[R-Tape]

I thought this topic would be about people who submitted software as their own when it was actually made by someone else. Now I'm curious if such topic was ever covered.

Aye this thread is for that too. It's not rare in the preservation section to get MIA flagged as type-ins.

[R-Tape]

Here's another one. Does anyone recognise this as a type-in? (I'll just give a shout out to @WhatHoSnorkers )

Canoe.