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Message: 5178

Author: Daniel

Date: 28/11/2005

Subject: TZX versions of JSW/MM games

 

Steve wrote:

> I'm more than willing to include the outstanding MM and JSW games
> in the vault, if someone can provide me with an authorative list of
> games and revisions... In fact, I'd be quite happy to host all the
> revisions of a game, if they're clearly labelled or documented...

Daniel wrote:

> I would like to put forward a following suggestion: perhaps if all
> the authors agreed, we could agree on it and somebody could send
> Steve Brown (...) a .zip file with the final versions of all the
> games which are not included yet (and the proper versions of older
> games, like "Time Hole"), on behalf of this Group and the
> respective authors, with the kind request to transfer them to .tzx
> format and include them?

(...)

> Now, in my humble opinion Andrew Broad would be the man on whom
> such high-level mission should be bestowed, wouldn't you agree?
> What do you think, Andrew, and what do other authors think?

Andrew wrote:

> I give permission for the latest gamma-released versions of my
> games to be included in the .zip file you mention, but I don't
> accept the mission of compiling and sending it myself.

> It's not one of my life's priorities to make sure that the MM/JSW
> collection is complete and up-to-date on WoS and the TZX Vault -
> just to make sure that my own List is as complete and up-to-date
> as I can manage.

In view of all of the above, I would like to volunteer to compile
the authoritative list of games which have not been included in TZX
Vault / WoS so far (of course using Andrew's list, which I consider
the cornerstone of JSW/MM community) and to put the pertinent files
together and send them to Steve.

It is not one of my life's priorities, either, but since I love
completeness, I am willing to devote some of my time to this task.
And I have personal interest in it, because in the future I would
like to host .tzx files - of MM and JSW games ONLY - on the website
I plan to create, so the important thing for me is that these files
come into existence, the next important thing of course being the
permission from Steve and Martin to use them.

Please, let me know if you have any objections! And please, all of
the authors whom it may concern (apart from Andrew, who has already
given the information - thanks!), let me know if you have any
specific points to mention (e.g. I will aim to put together the
final / latest revisions of the games; you may want me to include an
earlier revision, or specify that you only want the SE included, not
the original edition, or something like that).

If nobody objects to my fulfilling this task, I suggest that when I
have the list and the .zip file ready, before sending it to Steve, I
will put it in the Files folder (if it doesn't exceed the storage
space we have - isn't it time to ask Yahoo! for enlargement, by the
way?) so that everyone can look at their games and revise the files
to make sure everything is accurate.

Also, Steve, if you are following this - I could prepare the .tzx
files for you if it doesn't require the use of a real Spectrum. I
would just ask you to tell me exactly how I should do it (Andrew,
thanks for the tip about TAP2TZX, but I think I would still need to
hear the "official" procedure from Steve or Martin :-) ).

Please let me know what you think. I think that my e-mail address is
visible when I post these messages, so you can e-mail me directly
about specific games.

Daniel

 

 

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