When was the last update on infoseek actually? I can't find entries from 2014 on
Was surprised when I checked, and it was back in 2014, but must be. So much stuff must have been dug out since then, which is spread all over the Internet. Let’s hope someone have collected it all to be included on WOS.
1. Those two files/games are in German
2. Everything about them is to good to be C Tech 1982, or to be C Tech at all :-)
3. Its not the same game as the 'Lunar Lander' on the C Tech compilation 'Spectrum Arcade Pack'
So, the files can be added on their own with unknown Company/Author.
Unfortunately, not a perfect TZX, not even an unperfect TZX. Got this tape, but side A is blank, and on side B someone recorded a little program of their own, and then after that recorded Red Baron. So can't be sure that it is the true Dutch re-release of Red Baron that was copied onto the tape. The inlay is identically to the original Lothlorien one. Only positive thing is this tape, that proves that Aackosoft re-released the game in Holland:
However there are huge differences between the version online, and the version in the book. So therefore I decided to change the online listing to match the book listing, but quickly found out that the book listing is a huge mess, and just not good in any way. My guess is that the version online is a modified version still with a few text bugs, but a whole lot better that the listing in the book. On the SOFTEK start up screen, the book listing only say TM below SOFTEK, which I would think is TRADEMARK. But the online version has two more sets of letters added below TM, which are MR and LR. I suppose that are the initials of the modifiers, probably siblings with a surname starting with R.
I'm very sure this has never been released on tape, simply because it is to bad/simple to be able to sell, and due to the text bugs. It should be noted that its a:
Modified version of a Type-In game from book mentioned above.
Yeah, that's how I work. When I saw that game, and noticed that there were text bugs in the game, I immediately thought this can only be a Type-In, as no one would release it like that, and the detective work began :D
Comments
ADULT Warning :-)
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Oei$&pub=^Eros$&loadpics=3
This these changes should be made:
Message Language: English to Dutch
There really isn't much language in it, other than the loading screen reading Eros PRESENTEERT Oei, which is Dutch :-)
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0000143
Changes:
Company: Gary Howland to Hirezz Games
See my upload number 008 here: https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/56232/frankie-s-zx-spectrum-digouts#latest
Was surprised when I checked, and it was back in 2014, but must be. So much stuff must have been dug out since then, which is spread all over the Internet. Let’s hope someone have collected it all to be included on WOS.
Cowboy Shootout - Micro Power Ltd
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001105
The In-game screenshot, and the Loading screen gif are wrong. It's those from:
Cowboy Shoot Out - 16/48 Tape Magazine
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0016783
Rolf Ostergaard (Østergaard)
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekpub.cgi?regexp=^Rolf+Ostergaard$&loadpics=3
Name should be changed to:
Rolf V. Ostergaard (Østergaard)
Proof for that can be found in recently uploaded game Escape from ZX Power at the end of the listing :-)
Don't think there can be any doubt that these two MIA games from Buttercraft:
Winged Avengers
Scramble Condition Red
are the same as these two Work Force games:
Winged Avenger, The
Spectrum Scramble
If you load Work Force Spectrum Scramble, it even prints CONDITION RED after first load.
If you look at this page bottom left corner, then the description of the two Buttercraft games match the Work Force games:
http://live.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek/magazines/popular-computing-weekly/5/2#16
Opinios?
The two files downloadable on the 'Lunar Lander - C Tech' page:
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Lunar+Lander$&pub=^C-Tech$&loadpics=3
Has nothing to do with C Tech for these reasons:
1. Those two files/games are in German
2. Everything about them is to good to be C Tech 1982, or to be C Tech at all :-)
3. Its not the same game as the 'Lunar Lander' on the C Tech compilation 'Spectrum Arcade Pack'
So, the files can be added on their own with unknown Company/Author.
Unfortunately, not a perfect TZX, not even an unperfect TZX. Got this tape, but side A is blank, and on side B someone recorded a little program of their own, and then after that recorded Red Baron. So can't be sure that it is the true Dutch re-release of Red Baron that was copied onto the tape. The inlay is identically to the original Lothlorien one. Only positive thing is this tape, that proves that Aackosoft re-released the game in Holland:
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekpub.cgi?regexp=^Aackosoft$&loadpics=3
Take a look at the tape for proof of that this should be added as a MIA title:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/119k7eu9hxnm5vj/Red Baron (Dutch).zip?dl=0
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0014836
Should be renamed to:
Skatteberegning 1983
There is also a Skatteberegning 1984, which is uMIA :-)
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0017492
Programmers are not from Germany, as starting screen says they are from Vienna, capital of Austria
About Colony - Softek
https://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001013
This was published as a Type-In game in the Softek book The Spectrum Handbook by Tim Langdell page 73:
https://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=2000356
However there are huge differences between the version online, and the version in the book. So therefore I decided to change the online listing to match the book listing, but quickly found out that the book listing is a huge mess, and just not good in any way. My guess is that the version online is a modified version still with a few text bugs, but a whole lot better that the listing in the book. On the SOFTEK start up screen, the book listing only say TM below SOFTEK, which I would think is TRADEMARK. But the online version has two more sets of letters added below TM, which are MR and LR. I suppose that are the initials of the modifiers, probably siblings with a surname starting with R.
I'm very sure this has never been released on tape, simply because it is to bad/simple to be able to sell, and due to the text bugs. It should be noted that its a:
Modified version of a Type-In game from book mentioned above.
Yeah, that's how I work. When I saw that game, and noticed that there were text bugs in the game, I immediately thought this can only be a Type-In, as no one would release it like that, and the detective work began :D
Lægge Til Trække Fra - ZX Data
Is a Danish translation of this Widgit Software release:
https://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0009032
Here is the inlay: https://www.dropbox.com/s/rekprvpd14dqi9v/Lægge Til Trække Fra (Inlay).zip?dl=0
I've not uplaoded the TZX file as its been around for a while on Facebook done by Guy Black. Suppose you guys got it already :-)