 Two Different Versions | Two slightly different versions of the game have been released: an earlier one in the year 1986 as game included mainly into Sports 4, and consequently into Kingsoft Sport Show, which blatantly shows the former compilation's loading screen; a latter one, included into Power Pack (Anco), which release date is not known yet, but the presence of Terra Nova, dated 1987, marks the lower time limit of it.
Although the code varies very little between the two versions, those variations culminate in repercussions in the range between unperceivable and decisive. The most notable of those differencies affects the earlier version which doesn't work on Commodore 16 due to a bug which makes the intro crash after the selection of the team(s), once the teams are disposed on screen. This serious flaw has been fixed in the latter version, making it work on every 264 series' machine.
Both earlier and latter versions shows some garbage in the upper line of the screen: upper left in the earlier case, due some code roughly left there; upper right in the latter case, glitch which is probably driven by some reasons very close to the infamous 'serious bug' cited before, which have been partially fixed only but continues to scatter some fixed values into the memory.
 ESF Sports 4 intro  ESF Power Pack (Anco) intro
Taking the chance to have a new fixed version, the latter release also fixes a typo which was present in a Kingsoft advertising tag written on the right side of the football field. Thanks to it, the EVEVTS word has been fixed into a better appropriate EVENTS.
 ESF Sports 4 EVEVTS advert  ESF Power Pack (Anco) EVENTS advert |
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