Invalid entry??

Ivanzx

And the last one for today :)

Martijn, when I use infoseek I find a game called ..? by Juana Pueblo Soft, but when I click on it, it appears the following message :

"Sorry, this search string is invalid"

That's all!

mheide

Wow, you discovered that one quickly - it was introduced this weekend. :-)
Previously, the game was incorrectly listed as "Y....." for some reason.

The correct name (as listed now) is actually impossible for the database. The engine only takes the alphanumerical characters from the string, and drops the rest. This game thus has an "empty" title, producing the error you noticed. The same will happen when generating the filenames (empty name, just an extension, with no directory to go into).

The only way about it would be to find a new primary title for this game, with at least 1 alphanumerical character in it. The real title will then be reported as an alias.
Suggestions are more than welcome!

VincentAC

Is there anyway to call it "question mark" temporarily instead? Just for the sake of seeing the page itself.

Then change it to whatever official alias later on.

mheide

For the moment I simply inserted a '0' (zero) before the name, thus making sure the titles stays at the top of the list, and without language impact (e.g. "question mark" isn't Spanish).

Digital Prawn

You can download the game from speccy.org here:-
http://www.speccy.org/base/ProyectoBASE_Indice_Anyos.html

(Scroll down to the 1990 section, and it is the first game listed for that year).

Here is the intro screen:-


It reads "Juego basado en la película El jovencito Frankenstein", meaning

Game based on the movie "Young Frankenstein".

Suggetions I have are:-

It could be listed as

jovencito Frankenstein, El

("Young Frankenstein", although the game does contain a script and original ideas by Bobo, so maybe this is not ideal).

or simply name it as

Signos de interrogación

(Question marks)

As already mentioned, the true name of the game is indeed
¿...?

I feel though that the speccy community should adopt some unofficial name containing alphanumeric characters - to avoid further confusion.

For example, even Google ignores punctuation when searching.

The people on speccy.org had to call the snapshot "nombre.z80" (lit. "name.z80"), presumably just to give it a valid filename!

Whatever the decision, it is not an easy one to make for this title.

Ivanzx

Maybe the best option would be to name the game as "Interrogacion" (Which is question mark in english).

Cheers

mheide

Ivanzx wrote: »

Maybe the best option would be to name the game as "Interrogacion" (Which is question mark in english).

Alright, so this is the new currently listed title.