Double file of Pyjamarama Jackson Soft Italian edition
I noticed in yesterday's update that a file named "Pyjamarama(JacksonSoft).tzx" has been added to the archive. It is a double: the Italian official translation of the game, marketed by Jackson Soft, a label of the now defunct Gruppo Editoriale Jackson, has already been converted by myself as a perfect TZX from the original tape, which is by the way still in my possession, instead of an "unidentified copy" as this new file is.
Therefore I suggest that this new file should be dropped from the archive, as it is a double of an already existing file, and of uncertain origin as well, while the file I made for the WoS archive could be renamed to "Pyjamarama(JacksonSoft).tzx".
Therefore I suggest that this new file should be dropped from the archive, as it is a double of an already existing file, and of uncertain origin as well, while the file I made for the WoS archive could be renamed to "Pyjamarama(JacksonSoft).tzx".
Post edited by Alessandro Grussu on
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I also linked Jackson Soft to its parent label and marked both as having folded.
The Italian re-releases for Everyone's a Wally and Herbert's Dummy Run are currently reported as having been done on the Gruppo Editoriale Jackson label. Should these be changed into Jackson Soft as well (we don't have any inlays to check)?
I remember that the two games you mention here were not translated into Italian, as Automania and Pyjamarama were instead.
Again (hope it is clearer now): Jackson Soft was a brand of Gruppo Editoriale Jackson. Under this label, between 1984 and 1985, later translated into Spanish by Ingelek Jackson, GEJ published the original Video Basic courses for Spectrum, C64 and VIC 20, and officially marketed some games in Italy, namely:
- Automania (translated into Italian)
- Pyjamarama (translated)
- Everyone's a Wally (as "Wally Family"; English)
- Herbert's Dummy Run (English)
- Brian Bloodaxe (English)
- That's The Spirit (English)
- The Way Of The Exploding Fist (English)
The games were sold in newsstands and came with a 16-page booklet with some news and articles and the game instructions translated into Italian.Gruppo Editoriale Jackson folded at the beginning of the '90s.