Hi,

For the eCC-Frontend, i need some Infos about the Games.
For Example: Year of Release, Publisher, Developer, Programmer, Musican, Multiplayer (yes/no...or how much), medium (Tape,Disk,Cartridge ? )..etc

on this site : http://www.ep128.hu/Ep_Games/Games_09.htm  I can see a few infos (release,publisher)
Where can i find this Infos ? - do you have a list...maybe in english...?

and another Question :

I have some TOSEC-Files of the Enterprise-games.
"3D Starstrike" is there namend : "3D Starstrike (1985)(Realtime Software)" - so : Release: 1985 / Publisher:Realtime Software
But on your Download-Site above it's called : 1988 Code Masters......
What are the right Infos...(maybe there are different versions....one from 1985 and the other from 1988) 
(or is 1988 the Spectrum-release ? )

any ideas here ?
 

Stupid me........

fighter and strike.....time for some eyeglasses 

Thank you, Lacika

Do you also have some ideas, where i can get more infos about the Games ?
 

For the eCC-Frontend, i need some Infos about the Games.
For Example: Year of Release, Publisher, Developer, Programmer, Musican, Multiplayer (yes/no...or how much), medium (Tape,Disk,Cartridge ? )..etc

There are not many multiplayer games (I mean the game can be played by two players at the same time), e.g. Wizard of Wor.

If you can find the cassette cover on the web-page mentioned (ep128.hu), the medium is tape. The other games were not officially released, they are works or conversions of "amateur" programmers, so they spreaded the way that people copied them. Maybe there are a few games that work only on tape, and a few that only on disk. (But the members of the forum repaired most of such games in order that (=damit) they work both on disk and on tape.) As I know no cartridge games were made.

(Ich hoffe du verstehst was ich geschrieben habe. Wenn du etwas nicht verstehst, schreib doch mir eine Botschaft und ich probiere es dir auf Deutsch zu übersetzen!)

(Ich hoffe du verstehst was ich geschrieben habe. Wenn du etwas nicht verstehst, schreib doch mir eine Botschaft und ich probiere es dir auf Deutsch zu übersetzen!)

If you want...you can do it. Just for fun 

If there only stands "Ep128" , the Game was developed/released for the Enterprise, right ?

Not always. It can ba also a CPC conversion. E.g. Turbó Rudi was thought to be an original EP game but not much ago somebody found the CPC game Electro Freddy. It is sometimes difficult to find the original game because it can have different name.
RX-220 also seemed to be an original EP game but somebody realised in 2009 (!) that it isn't.

But how can i see, wich Game is :
1. an officially (commercial) conversion/version for the Enterprise ?
2. only for Spectrum, and  then coded by "amateur"-programmers ?
3. first developed/released for Enterprise, and then converted to the Spectrum (don't know, if Spectrum was always the First System for the Games)

A good question... you cannot see it only if we tell you. Maybe a thorough database of Enterprise programs is still missing, we should create it. 
Those who had/have Enterprise computer at home know about what programmes he bought in the shop and what programmes were sold. That's why we know which program is a retail ("officially issued") game which isn't. And, of course, the cassette covers we find on the net (e.g. on E-bay) can tell us more. But those who didn't have an Enterprise computer can't have much information about it because in the program database we didn't write about these things, yes. Sorry about the inconvenience. At any rate we try to help you.

Moreover, I have had an Enterprise computer since about 1988 but I don't know about all the programs if they are original EP programs or not. We always find an original game in some other computer for the game we thought it was originally coded for EP. (E.g. RX-220)

In the wiki here I began to write a list of the original EP games (here). But I am afraid there are some not original EP games in the list. At any rate, the "Orksoft játékok" (Orksoft games) are original EP games (hello Endi!) but, of course not officially released. At the end of the list you can see "Eredetinek látszó Enterprise játékok, de nem azok" which means "Games which seem to be original EP games but they aren't".

A good question if there are more officially released EP programs than cassette covers on the ep128.hu. Maybe there aren't.
One more thing: Cassette pack 1-2-3 cassette covers contained cassettes with some programmes you can find on the ep128.hu but I am not sure which games they contained.

I think we have to create now a thorough list about the original EP games, about the conversions and about the official (retail) games...

Maybe a thorough database of Enterprise programs is still missing, we should create it. 

I'm already working on it (for a while...  )

Well, it's sometimes a really interesting question if a certain game is an original EP game or not. As for Sorcery and Cauldron, we talked about the problem on the Hungarian forum and we couldn't decide if these two programs are original EP games or not. We cannot know if these games were converted from CPC or maybe they were being written simultaneously for CPC and EP.
Furthermore, if they were really converted from CPC, they can also be considered original EP games as they are not simply conversions but major differences can be found between the CPC and the EP versions.
So, it's sometimes subjective to decide if a game is original EP game or not.

First we should define what an original EP game is. Anyway, there are a lot of Pacman-like games but there might be original EP games among them. If the idea is not original, the coding can be independent from other platforms, it's the criteria of an original game. And, in the case of Cauldron and Sorcery we cannot know the truth.


As for the official games, they are all official which have a cassette cover on ep128.hu. But under "Kazettaborító terv" there are only our pass-time designs. We are still thinking about if there are more official games we don't have the cassette cover but there might not be too many.

strangely, that no one of them is here in the Forum !?

Yes, it's strange. I don't really know why the official game programmers didn't find this forum, yet. Maybe they have a lot of other things to do, I think...