Spectrum Computing

Hi there! Or should I say Hallo Leute

We have managed to preserved LOTS of german tapes containing a lot of programs like type-ins, homebrew, MIAs and the likes

However, I am not very familiar with the early 80s german Spectrum games/magazines/programs, so it would be great if you German guys could help us out by providing some info on the files preserved

Here is the link where (some of them) have been published:

https://trastero.speccy.org/2023/IVAN/C ... 01a08B.htm

We can use this thread to post the info on these programs/games, so we can between all classify them.

Danke!!

Thanks, Einar!
Yes, some of them are already in the archive, but for example Boxe is MIA, so it could be uploaded already
I have to also load some of the others, as I think that by loading them we can find some authors that are not yet mentioned

Maybe @Luzie and @XTM can help us out

Another 20 programs are now available, and this time, these are more difficult to classify as they are more obscure and small programs (some of them Homebrew from the early 80s):

https://trastero.speccy.org/2023/IVAN/C ... 10a14B.htm

Strassenfarher is Cars:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/1 ... ctrum/Cars

As for Dame, I'm almost sure it's a type-in, because I have the same game in a family made cassette (the same where I found Cars):
viewtopic.php?t=7636

Oloturia wrote: ↑Mon Jun 26, 2023 11:18 am Strassenfarher is Cars:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/1 ... ctrum/Cars

As for Dame, I'm almost sure it's a type-in, because I have the same game in a family made cassette (the same where I found Cars):
viewtopic.php?t=7636

Thanks!

So Dame must come from a British type-in, also published in a German magazine, it is my guess

Tronn:
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/5 ... trum/Tronn

This program is mentioned within a thesis about computer gaming. (Google: homecomputer "gw software" uni-ak.ac.at)
According to it it was a type-in from Homecomputer 4/1984 pp 15-18 (Roeske Verlag).
Biorythmus Tendenz is from the same author. I looked into both listings but found no further information about GW Software.

Thanks for helping out and for the info, @sn3j ! It also seems that another type-in for the Spectrum was published in that issue of the magazine, called "Superfile", which is, also in the recovered files: https://trastero.speccy.org/2023/IVAN/C ... 10a14B.htm



By the way, the game of the cover of the magazine totally looks like F-Zero... 5 years before!

Ivanzx wrote: ↑Wed Jun 28, 2023 7:13 am Thanks for helping out and for the info, @sn3j ! It also seems that another type-in for the Spectrum was published in that issue of the magazine, called "Superfile", which is, also in the recovered files: https://trastero.speccy.org/2023/IVAN/C ... 10a14B.htm

And Superhirn is a type-in from Homecomputer 11/1983, author Christian Boehm.
The author and more details of Superfile can be found inside the mentioned thesis from uni-ak.ac.at.
Kreisstatistik is probably a type-in from Homecomputer 8/1983 p 50.

Ivanzx wrote: ↑Wed Jun 28, 2023 7:13 am By the way, the game of the cover of the magazine totally looks like F-Zero... 5 years before!

I've read it's Sega Turbo.

Ivanzx wrote: ↑Sun Jun 25, 2023 12:20 pm Maybe @Luzie and @XTM can help us out

Sadly I´m can´t remember this programs.

Luzie wrote: ↑Thu Jun 29, 2023 4:55 pm Sadly I´m can´t remember this programs.

Not even one of them?

There will be more coming soon

By the way I looked up Kreisstatistik, it's indeed from Homecomputer 8/1983 p 50.
All Homecomputer mags are available online here, as well as other German computer magazines:
http://www.homecomputerworld.com/magazine.html

sn3j wrote: ↑Sat Jul 01, 2023 8:04 pm By the way I looked up Kreisstatistik, it's indeed from Homecomputer 8/1983 p 50.
All Homecomputer mags are available online here, as well as other German computer magazines:
http://www.homecomputerworld.com/magazine.html

Thanks for the info and for looking, @sn3j

sn3j wrote: ↑Sat Jul 01, 2023 8:04 pm All Homecomputer mags are available online here, as well as other German computer magazines:
http://www.homecomputerworld.com/magazine.html

From this list, we already have ASM (Aktueller Software Markt), Happy Computer, and HC Mein Heim-Computer:

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/magazines.php

Is there any other magazine with any Sinclair related content? All others seem to cover C64 or Amiga exclusively.

You also mentioned Homecomputer that I don't see it in that page. Where did you find it?

Einar Saukas wrote: ↑Tue Jul 04, 2023 7:58 pm You also mentioned Homecomputer that I don't see it in that page. Where did you find it?

Ups sorry. I got it from here: https://www.kultmags.com/mags.php
It's somewhere down in the list. The direct link is likely to break because of the hash id.

Einar Saukas wrote: ↑Tue Jul 04, 2023 7:58 pm Is there any other magazine with any Sinclair related content? All others seem to cover C64 or Amiga exclusively.

I don't know. The list at Kultmags could be a start to check for missing links, though.

Thank you!

Stichwortkartei - Author P. Rupieper - Happy Computer 12/1983 page 119-121.

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Dame - Author David Harwood "Spaß und Profit Spectrum" - Happy(Hobby) Computer 11/1983 54-55

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Haushalt (Haushaltsrechnung) - Author n/a - Homecomputer 11/1983 14-16

Thanks for your help @sn3j in this Spectrum German Archeology work

I think soon there will be another batch of recovered programs/games posted in the site of El Trastero

Danke!