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Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2013 7:01 am
by Vicman *1970
Found 2 games thats maybe need the link/point : "related game"
1. Deciper (1982)(Romik)........[coding P.R. Software]
2. Logic (1982)(P.R. Software)

the graphic is almost identical....

Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2013 10:39 am
by Mayhem
If you check the tape inlay for both, you'll find they are part of the same compilation release...

Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2013 11:12 am
by Vicman *1970
ähm....no :roll:

Romik = compilation Mind Twister -> contains 4 Games :
BlackJack, Decipher, Four Thought & Teaser

P.R. Software = compilation 6 Programs
Alarm Clock, Blackjack, Logic, Pickupgame, Smashout & War

Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2013 11:59 am
by Mayhem
Yeah, I was thinking of the wrong game there. They do look similar.

Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2013 1:05 pm
by Vicman *1970
Game : Dodgems
wrong : Language - German
right : English

Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2013 7:32 am
by Vicman *1970
well, not a big deal...but :
Tapefile : Booby in Action (1986)(Computronic) is missplaced.
wrong : \Extras\Tap\Unexp taps
right : \Extras\Tap\3k taps

Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2013 10:39 am
by Vicman *1970
Tapefile :
Fight Night (1986)(Compute mit) don't work for me....(Fight Night.tap)

but it works well in VICE, when you put tokra's 2 *.prg's in one zip-file.
This way i've added them to TOSEC.

Fight Night (1986-12)(Tronic Verlag)(de)[Compute mit][type-in][multipart].zip
=
Fight Night (1986-12)(Tronic Verlag)(de)[Compute mit][type-in][multipart].prg
fightnight2.prg

Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2013 2:09 pm
by Mayhem
Fight Night has a different second part PRG name to what the first file shows on screen. Is it meant to auto boot the second part though? As I added it myself, and created the TAP, I'm not sure.

Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2013 12:32 am
by Vicman *1970
o.k. , i've checked it again.
Tape dump works....but i need to load the second part manually with LOAD [Return] RUN [Return]

Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2013 4:08 am
by Mayhem
Yeah, there's a few like that in the database, where the first part does not auto load the second part, and you have to manually type LOAD.

Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2013 7:16 am
by KingTrode
@Mayhem

With all the reports Vicman is throwing your way (nice work), I feel like I'm slacking somewhat in testing GB20 - main reason being spending free time on my new game "Dice Drop" :roll:

So if there's any thing(s) specific you'd like me to test just let me know, as a break from coding will probably do me good.


KingTrode / Jim

Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2013 11:09 am
by Mayhem
Well, that's true, Vicman has been very useful ;)

Of course I don't know if the reason no one else has commented so far is because they've not had much chance to try it out, or they genuinely haven't found any problems heh.

Just use it, play around, see if anything is wrong, that's pretty much the reason for handing it over to a few people early :)

Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2013 12:32 am
by Vicman *1970
Well, i'm far from testing each game....
I focused my tests on the new entries. Think you haven't changed much on the old *.mdb-file ?
And i think the GB is mostly free from errors ! 8)

...though, i would change the publisher name for some type-in's.
i.e. :
Happy Computer = Markt & Technik
Compute mit = Tronic Verlag
Computronic = Tronic Verlag
Homecomputer = Tronic Verlag (except "Spukhaus" & Skipping Ball" , should be "Roeske Verlag")
home computing weekly = Argus Press

or maybe making it more specific : i.e.
Game: Worm
Publisher : Tronic Verlag (Compute mit)

Game: Trenchfire
Publisher : Compute! (Compute!'s Gazette)

this way i named the roms in TOSEC :
Zyklo (1984)(Tronic Verlag)(de)[Computronic][type-in].d64

best solution for me would be an extra info-field in GB.
Game : Wormy
Publisher : Tronic Verlag
Type-in Magazine : Compute mit

Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2013 3:35 pm
by Kweepa
If the magazine name is given as the publisher, the rest of the information can be inferred. Not so if the magazine publisher is given. So I'd prefer to keep the type-in publisher as the magazine name. In a sense it's correct anyway, since the type-in was published in the magazine.

Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2013 5:23 pm
by Mayhem
Yeah, that's pretty much why I did it that way, so you know what magazine published it. Although with the Gamebase 1.3 interface, such extra details might be present in the field library. I'll see when I get there...!