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Re: Little bugs in the database 6
Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2024 1:11 pm
by Einar Saukas
Frankie wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2024 7:51 am
Regarding the MicroSolver series mentioned here:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/1 ... Kompilator
I'm working on preserving a utility from that series, and on the last pages of the Swedish manual, they list the programs included in the series.
Find it easier to mention it here, as I'm not sure if and how to add titles to a series, and its not linked yet, so I probably can't anyway
I will create this.
Can you tell if that's an ordered series (where each title has an ordering number) or unordered?
Re: Little bugs in the database 6
Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2024 8:38 pm
by Frankie
Einar Saukas wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2024 1:11 pm
I will create this.
Can you tell if that's an ordered series (where each title has an ordering number) or unordered?
Don’t think there was an ordering number. I’ve found an advert for the series in a mag that is online, and it seems the serie contains these 6 programs only.
Re: Little bugs in the database 6
Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:58 pm
by PeterJ
I just noticed that the YouTube video in the entry for
The Bard's Tale is apparently from a 2022 version. If you go to the
YouTube page it says:
This is an updated 2022 version made by Monsters Productions and Tiboh, and it has these changes:
- Intro converted from C64 by Tiboh.
- The game is converted from +3 disk version and have these extras: There are extra pictures in the +3 version - One for the Guild, one for Garth's Shoppe, and one for the temples - these are just the standard house graphic in the 48K version.
There is a link to the download
here.
Does this need adding to the entry?
Re: Little bugs in the database 6
Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:29 pm
by PeterJ
Between The Stars is a ZX81 program, but the screens show flashing green.
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/4 ... _the_Stars
Re: Little bugs in the database 6
Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:36 pm
by Stefan
It was a type in for the ZX81 which was typed in on a Spectrum and "enhanced"
The Spectrum TZX is attached to that entry, it also contains typos.
From the magazine scans:
Code: Select all
10 REM BETWEEN THE STARS
20 REM BY ROGER MACINTYRE
30
Whereas the tzx starts with:
Code: Select all
10 REM Between the stars
20 REM By Roger Mcinture
25 BORDER RND *7: PAPER 7: CLS
Tsss... pesky type-in'ers.
Re: Little bugs in the database 6
Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:38 pm
by PeterJ
Good spot @Stefan. I'm very keen on us only storing 'virgin' type-ins (other than where there are errors in the listing) so I will make some changes to the entry..
Re: Little bugs in the database 6
Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:14 pm
by +3code
PeterJ wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:58 pm
There is a link to the download
here.
Does this need adding to the entry?
I would say yes, or maybe as MOD?
Re: Little bugs in the database 6
Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2024 8:28 pm
by Neil Parsons
Duplicate entries for Ventamatic educational software called 'Areas'.
This and
this are almost equal to each other.
Re: Little bugs in the database 6
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2024 12:48 am
by Einar Saukas
I'm guessing that
The Open Door was originally released in 1987 (not 1988) and it first appeared in compilation
6 in 1.
Is this information correct?
Re: Little bugs in the database 6
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2024 9:41 am
by 8BitAG
Einar Saukas wrote: ↑Thu Apr 04, 2024 12:48 am
I'm guessing that
The Open Door was originally released in 1987 (not 1988) and it first appeared in compilation
6 in 1.
Is this information correct?
Yes, I don't believe Open Door was released anywhere else before it appeared on the 6-in-1, introduction to adventure games, compilation. And the year of publication should be 1987.
Re: Little bugs in the database 6
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2024 10:32 am
by Einar Saukas
Thanks!!!
Re: Little bugs in the database 6
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2024 9:16 pm
by Einar Saukas
Program
Dieta Cientifica (in Spanish) was probably published as type-in at magazine
K64 but I could not find it. Please help!
Re: Little bugs in the database 6
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2024 4:15 pm
by Einar Saukas
Frankie wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2024 7:51 am
Regarding the MicroSolver series
Could you please confirm these are the correct titles?
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/list?group_id=550
Re: Little bugs in the database 6
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2024 7:24 am
by Frankie
Yes, but there are only 6 titles in the serie, 'Digilog Basic-Kompilator', should be renamed to 'Basic Kompilator', and moved into the 'Softek 'IS' BASIC Compiler' entry
Also all 6 Swedish names I gave in another post should be added as re-releases under the English release. All 6 were re-released in 1983.
SWEDISH NAME: Superfile
ENGLISH NAME: Superfile
SWEDISH NAME: Pascal Kompilator
ENGLISH NAME: HiSoft Pascal 4
SWEDISH NAME: Sys 64
ENGLISH NAME: Sys 64
SWEDISH NAME: Basic Kompilator
ENGLISH NAME: Softek 'IS' BASIC Compiler
SWEDISH NAME: 16k FORTH
ENGLISH NAME: FORTH
SWEDISH NAME: DevPac
ENGLISH NAME: HiSoft Devpac
Re: Little bugs in the database 6
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2024 7:32 am
by Frankie
The games:
Hopper from Spectrum Games:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/2 ... rum/Hopper
and
Road Frog from Spectrum Games:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/4 ... /Road_Frog
Should be merged into one entry under Hopper.
Everything is explained in the YouTube video I link to in this post:
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=11283
I'm not totally convinced that any copies of Hopper ever was sold, or if they had already changed inlay to Road Frog when you ordered Hopper, but I think we better keep Hopper in the database, and then move Road Frog into that entry
Re: Little bugs in the database 6
Posted: Sat May 04, 2024 8:28 pm
by R-Tape
Simon Cooke's label entry links to a Wikipedia article which is actually about a Kiwi olympic sailor of the same name.
I can't find an alternative Simon Cooke at Wikipedia, so the wiki link should be deleted. However, the link to his own site is good, and has a pretty cool speccy themed GUI!
Re: Little bugs in the database 6
Posted: Sat May 04, 2024 9:05 pm
by Einar Saukas
Re: Little bugs in the database 6
Posted: Mon May 06, 2024 12:45 am
by marenja
Information about the game Blue Max looks like being processed (diagonal screen scrolling). But it is not displayed in the game's info page.
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/zxdb/ad ... ge_sql.txt
@druellan
Re: Little bugs in the database 6
Posted: Mon May 06, 2024 2:36 am
by Einar Saukas
It's processed and it was included in the last ZXDB release from
May 4th.
However SC is currently running the ZXDB update from April 27th as mentioned
here. Please wait for the next SC update.
Re: Little bugs in the database 6
Posted: Mon May 06, 2024 8:27 am
by Ivanzx
A uMIA italian game was sold in a Spanish known second hand website:
Game is called Alitalia 84
https://es.wallapop.com/item/gioco-alit ... -963688990
Re: Little bugs in the database 6
Posted: Mon May 06, 2024 2:00 pm
by Frankie
This one:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/magazin ... land_Disks
Country should be changed to Denmark. It was my fanzine, and last time I checked I was from Denmark
Re: Little bugs in the database 6
Posted: Wed May 08, 2024 1:22 pm
by Ivanzx
Re: Little bugs in the database 6
Posted: Fri May 10, 2024 11:14 am
by Lee P
Robot Messiah has the wrong .scr attached to it (see
this post). The correct screen can be taken from either the .tzx or .tap. The main design is flipped to match the artwork, and it includes the Alphabatim logo.
(I guess the other screen, wherever it came from, can be added to additional file downloads?)
Re: Little bugs in the database 6
Posted: Fri May 10, 2024 2:11 pm
by PeterJ
