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Questions about type-ins

IvanzxIvanzx
edited December 2011 in Infoseek database
Couple of them :)

I have seen that some of the type-ins that still appear as MIA, have actually an in-game screenshot, because the game was later published on tape in most (or all) the cases. Shouldnt then the game, even if the type-in has not been typed, be removed as MIA??

The second one: There is a spanish site where many type-ins have been typed and stored, and I have seen a couple of them that still appear in WoS as MIA. The site is not related to SPA2 or Trastero del Spectrum, so I was wondering if it would be possible to send them and be added to the archive?

Thanks, team :)
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  • Battle BunnyBattle Bunny
    edited December 2011
    Here's some examples. All four are available on compilations; the two also published in print are marked "Not typed in yet!" whereas the two only published on magnetic media are marked "Missing In Action!", so there is a consistency and distinction in and between the entries.
  • IvanzxIvanzx
    edited December 2011
    Battle Bunny wrote: »
    Here's some examples. All four are available on compilations; the two also published in print are marked "Not typed in yet!" whereas the two only published on magnetic media are marked "Missing In Action!", so there is a consistency and distinction in and between the entries.

    Well, but if this type-ins appeared in a tape compilation later, they actually were typed-in!! :) Thats what I do not understand about this :)
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  • jpablojpablo
    edited December 2011
    Hi Iv?n,

    I might be talking nonsense, but I can see a good reason for that. Maybe the type-in is not *exactly* equal to the compilation version. I mean, until it is typed in, we can never know! ;)
  • IvanzxIvanzx
    edited December 2011
    jpablo wrote: »
    Hi Iv?n,

    I might be talking nonsense, but I can see a good reason for that. Maybe the type-in is not *exactly* equal to the compilation version. I mean, until it is typed in, we can never know! ;)

    Yep, that was what I was thinking right now about it, it was the only good reason that came to my mind, and yes, it could be that the game were modified somehow :)
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  • Battle BunnyBattle Bunny
    edited December 2011
    Ivanzx wrote: »
    Well, but if this type-ins appeared in a tape compilation later, they actually were typed-in!! :) Thats what I do not understand about this :)

    Ah, but you're mixing up pre-publication and post-publication typing-in. Every published program was typed in by the author at some point, but that doesn't qualify it as being "typed-in" for the purposes of the "Availability" heading in Infoseek.

    If it was originally published in print with the intention of being typed in by readers, then subsequently published on tape, the tape version would also not qualify as being "typed-in", as it's highly improbable that it would have been again; it would just have been copied electronically from a tape supplied by the author.

    For a type-in to qualify as being "typed-in" it would have to be typed in by a third party from the paper version after publication. That's the only way of being certain (apart from typing errors) that the type-in matches the printed version, as there's always the possibility that the tape version, having been published at a later date, has differences from the printed version.
  • mheidemheide
    edited December 2011
    Titles that were originally published as type-ins say so in the publication field. There are indeed cases where they were later re-published through other means, but they should still say type-in.
    If you find examples that are incorrect (you didn't mention any in your post), those should probably be corrected.

    If we don't have individual downloads for them, they should be NTI for availability.
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