Galactic Survival Pak

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• Ivanzx

  August 2012 edited August 2012

  Even better, it is an uMIA, it would be nice if you could get some info, like year of release, authors, type of game, etc...so Martijn can create an entry for the game ;)

  <a href="http://rincondelspectrum.blogspot.de/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://rincondelspectrum.blogspot.de/</a>;
• Graz

  August 2012 edited August 2012

  The advert is from Personal Software magazine (Winter 1983) Just incase someone can get to a scanner before I can. No other information on the ad, aside from the tag-line, "Every Astro-Traveller must have this!"
  
  Also found this interesting... The ad says that if you order California Gold Rush before Nov 11th, then you get a 10-game cassette for free. I wonder what that one was?!
• Andrew Barker

  August 2012 edited August 2012

  A few google searches for California Gold Rush revels this link which is an interview with Colin Porch on the C64:
  http://www.c64.com/interviews/porch.html
  
  At C64 Tapes they have two titles by that name:
  http://c64tapes.org/games_list.php?title=%5EC&sort=title
  ... one on the Anik Micro Systems label and the other on Software Supersavers Ltd.
  The latter lists Colin Porch as the author:
  http://c64tapes.org/title.php?id=6413
  
  If you do an infoseek search for Software Supersavers:
  http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekpub.cgi?regexp=^Software+Supersavers+Ltd$
  ... it mentions California Gold Rush but are shaded out, most likely as they were only on the C64. Look at the ad:
  http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=Crash/Issue10/Pages/Crash1000154.jpg
  
  OR, I'm barking up the wron tree as I think we're talking about California Gold Rush from Anik:
  http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=C+VG/Issue027/Pages/CVG02700160.jpg
  
  On this advert Galactic Survival Pak is listed under Dragon.
  
  It's a shame we have no MIAs resolved from Anik :-(
• Andrew Barker

  August 2012 edited August 2012

  Yet more searching and it may appear Anik are either still trading ?:
  
  http://business.zibb.co.uk/profile/anik+microsystems/gb/northamptonshire/northampton/nn3+9bh/23510066
  
  Emuparadise curiously have a TAP file:
  http://www.emuparadise.me/ZX_Spectrum_(Tapes)_ROMs/Phasorchase_(1984)(Anik_Microsystems)/87677
  However it matches this infoseek entry:
  http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0003689
  
  I also found a TZX, but it looked like a TAP->TZX conversions, from one of those unscrupulous web sites who harvest any ROM (ahem) they can find.
  
  Dunno if the info is just wrong or whether Anik re-released Phasorchase at some point ?
  
  
  I think until we get any physical evidence of these titles, we're a bit stuck filling in the gaps.
• Graz

  August 2012 edited August 2012

  Wow, California Gold Rush from Anik IS the same as the Software Super Savers one!
  Well, the story is the same anyway and they share the character of Jake and what needs to be done in the game.
  
  But the question now seems to be... Did they actually release anything on the Speccy as mentioned in their adverts?