Posted By
Emitewiki2
on 2024-10-18
15:23:51
|  Reaching out to user for displaying their scan
Hello! I was researching for the game "Das Rätsel um die 7. Kolonie" so that I could add a record of the game's existence to our database of all video games as well. (It is one of only a few Commodore Plus/4 games that I know we are missing.) Someone has taken a *beautiful* scan of the game's cassette cover here, which I think is very impressive and I congragulate them! I cannot find a way to locate their username, but I was hoping to reach out to them and ask for permission to display their scan as the game cover on our database as well. Does anyone know how I can reach out to this user?
Thanks so much! This is such a wonderful site!
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Posted By
Emitewiki2
on 2024-10-18
15:26:14
| Re: Reaching out to user for displaying their scan
Oops! I forgot to say in the original post that database I am submitting the record of the game to is MobyGames https://www.mobygames.com/ ! Haha
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Posted By
Csabo
on 2024-10-18
15:28:12
| Re: Reaching out to user for displaying their scan
You can simply hover over the image to see who submitted it, in this case Lacus. Feel free to use the images, the only reason we scan and host them online is for them to be preserved.
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Posted By
Emitewiki2
on 2024-10-18
16:18:08
| Re: Reaching out to user for displaying their scan
Ah, fantastic, thanks!
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Posted By
Emitewiki2
on 2024-10-20
16:58:08
| Re: Reaching out to user for displaying their scan
I am only asking here one more time because Moby requires that I have specific permission for the covers of every game we submit, but is it okay if I also display your site's covers for
* Kingsoft Sport-Show /software/Kingsoft_Sport_Show
* Der Pfad Im Dschungel /software/Der_Pfad_Im_Dschungel
* Die Seefahrt /software/Die_Seefahrt
?
Those are the only remaining Commodore 16, Plus/4 games that I believe we don't have cataloged!
(P.S. had to strip the links so they don't trigger the spam filter.)
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Posted By
Csabo
on 2024-10-20
18:33:14
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Sure, go for it.
Did you mean remaining Kingsoft games, that are not cataloged, perhaps? From the list here I see 500 games listed for the C16/Plus4, which is just a fraction or the real number, no matter how you count it.
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Posted By
Emitewiki2
on 2024-10-20
19:26:15
| Re: Reaching out to user for displaying their scan
Ah, I was going off an internal list someone had made of "known missing games" for the Commodore 16, Plus/4. Is there a location on this site where there is a list of how many Commodore 16, Plus/4 games are out there, or an easy .csv source that could be used to cross-reference against our database? Or is the best place to find all of the games [at this link](https://plus4world.powweb.com/games) by manually clicking each letter?
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Posted By
Csabo
on 2024-10-21
09:34:17
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From the top menu, click Software | Game | All. You should be able to copy/paste the resulting table into a spreadsheet, and it does show if the given games are commercial or homebrew (I'm assuming your site doesn't deal with the latter).
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Posted By
Emitewiki2
on 2024-10-21
18:14:51
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Oh, wow, you're right. I copied only half the list here on your site and then downloaded all of Moby's logged Commodore Plus/4 games, then removed all of the matches across the spreadsheets and already found over 1600 games we don't have logged!!
Well, I guess we are not nearly as close as I assumed we were to completely cataloging that system haha. The list I was using obviously had not intended to be exhaustive, I now realize. This is way too many releases for me to manually enter into our site, I guess I will have to wait until we find some additional volunteers that are passionate about linking up this information to our site as well, because 1600+ games are way more than I have motivation for! ^-^'
Thanks for all of the help!
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Posted By
JimmyCoupe
on 2024-10-24
10:46:12
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We still also need "The Commodore plus/4 Adventure Pack" by Peter Gerrard. Please, please, please can people look deep into their collections, pull out your copy and snapshot the 4 games using the Vice emulator or better rip the disk. I have the game that somehow was made of cheese. I managed to save the menu and the colossal cave before the disk crumbled into dust.  please someone help 
I have just written to Duckworth books as they still exist. Maybe they hold an archive of their releases? I have asked.
I refuse to be defeated, I have traced a thread of this game into the "Centre for computing history". I can see they have the book that comes in the pack so I have asked them to check their archive. If anyone can help its people like this.
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Posted By
JimmyCoupe
on 2024-10-28
05:53:43
| Re: Reaching out to user for displaying their scan
The Centre for computing history have got back to me about the "The Commodore plus/4 Adventure Pack". They checked the adventure book that comes with the game but sadly there was no disk. They do not have the original game but they do still have 700 more boxes to sort and archive. Since the man who came back to me loves the plus/4 and it was also his first computer he will actively continue searching with me and will let me know if he finds it in the archive.
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