Collecting the sphere gives you points in the PET version and although there is a clue on how to deal with the zombie there does not seem to be any reason why you should deal with him as he causes little hindrance.
I am now stuck at our old friend the plug. So far the only way I have managed to ...
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Re: Catacombs
Update.
The manure is in the castle area. Unfortunately all of the castle area seems to be dark which makes extensive exploration difficult as the lamp keeps going out.
The manure is in the castle area. Unfortunately all of the castle area seems to be dark which makes extensive exploration difficult as the lamp keeps going out.
Re: Catacombs
I've spent some time with the original PET version. I now know what you need to get past the web (LanHawk was right), it then took me ages to realise that in this version the silver throne itself is the treasure and is not part of an additional puzzle.
The dark hooded figure on horseback turns up ...
The dark hooded figure on horseback turns up ...
- Mon Jun 08, 2026 9:53 pm
- Forum: Site feedback & announcements
- Topic: Umlauts and other diacritics are broken
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Re: Umlauts and other diacritics are broken
Hannes, there are no games attributed to FrantiÅ¡ek Fuka and JiÅ™i Koudelka so deleting those entries is not a problem. The question that you have now made me realise is which is the correct spelling for František Fuka/Frantisek Fuka and Jiři Koudelka/Jiri Koudelka? Not knowing the answer I will ...
- Sun Jun 07, 2026 9:49 pm
- Forum: Site feedback & announcements
- Topic: Umlauts and other diacritics are broken
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Re: Umlauts and other diacritics are broken
The problem with Jiři Koudelka and František Fuka is that they are actually duplicates. When I tried correcting them, it is not possible due to that.
So should I delete FrantiÅ¡ek Fuka and JiÅ™i Koudelka, then rename Frantisek Fuka and Jiri Koudelka to František Fuka and Jiři Koudelka ...
- Sun Jun 07, 2026 5:41 pm
- Forum: Site feedback & announcements
- Topic: Umlauts and other diacritics are broken
- Replies: 29
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Re: Umlauts and other diacritics are broken
Garry, you won't be able to see it because it is admin only, but there is a page for editing authors' names and details which shows all of the names entered on the site. So there is no need for to go through individual entries to find problem names. The same goes for "Genre", "Publisher", "System ...
- Sat Jun 06, 2026 10:57 pm
- Forum: Site feedback & announcements
- Topic: Umlauts and other diacritics are broken
- Replies: 29
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Re: Umlauts and other diacritics are broken
Hannes, I see that you have committed the fix but some parts have gone wrong :(
In the fix page that you posted the apostrophes and dashes for the user comments for https://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C330/Lords+of+Karma.html were properly corrected, but with the fix applied those messed up ...
In the fix page that you posted the apostrophes and dashes for the user comments for https://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C330/Lords+of+Karma.html were properly corrected, but with the fix applied those messed up ...
- Fri Jun 05, 2026 7:33 pm
- Forum: Site feedback & announcements
- Topic: Umlauts and other diacritics are broken
- Replies: 29
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Re: Umlauts and other diacritics are broken
Very good! I've updated the linked page. This now represents what I consider a complete set of fixes all across the website. I'll leave it for review in case anyone spots any mistakes which make it worse. I can pull the trigger any time.
I've taken a few minutes to peruse the fixes and I haven't ...
- Thu Jun 04, 2026 10:52 pm
- Forum: Site feedback & announcements
- Topic: Umlauts and other diacritics are broken
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2943
Re: Umlauts and other diacritics are broken
I'm still looking into what other database fields could be affected. Is there any impact on the forums as well or only on the website?
The umlauts in the thread Jörg Walkowiak's "Gold Fever" - https://solutionarchive.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=871 - are present and correct. So the forum is ...
- Mon Jun 01, 2026 5:55 pm
- Forum: Site feedback & announcements
- Topic: Umlauts and other diacritics are broken
- Replies: 29
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Re: Umlauts and other diacritics are broken
Yes, the user comments - see: https://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C330/Lords+of+Karma.html:
"I’m a big fan of Avalon Hill Microcomputer Games and have nearly all of these titles in my game collection. Lords of Karma can’t be 1978 given one primary fact. Avalon Hill in context to computer ...
- Sat May 30, 2026 11:42 pm
- Forum: Site feedback & announcements
- Topic: Umlauts and other diacritics are broken
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2943
Re: Umlauts and other diacritics are broken
This is a rough equation in hex I've devised that may explain what is going on, where:
x is the value of the actual character
y is the value of the first rogue character
z is the value of the second rogue character
I'm getting the values from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode ...
x is the value of the actual character
y is the value of the first rogue character
z is the value of the second rogue character
I'm getting the values from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode ...
- Sat May 30, 2026 9:03 pm
- Forum: Site feedback & announcements
- Topic: Umlauts and other diacritics are broken
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2943
Re: Umlauts and other diacritics are broken
Add
½ => ½
â => â
è => è
Ç => Ç
Å« => ū
also I am seeing î (see links below), I think it should be Î or î
https://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C9360/%C3%83%C2%AEle+Tristam%2C+L.html
https://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C1599/Diamant+de+l'%C3%83%C2%AEle+maudite%2C+Le.html
I'm guessing that ...
½ => ½
â => â
è => è
Ç => Ç
Å« => ū
also I am seeing î (see links below), I think it should be Î or î
https://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C9360/%C3%83%C2%AEle+Tristam%2C+L.html
https://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C1599/Diamant+de+l'%C3%83%C2%AEle+maudite%2C+Le.html
I'm guessing that ...
- Thu May 28, 2026 9:42 pm
- Forum: Site feedback & announcements
- Topic: Umlauts and other diacritics are broken
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2943
Re: Umlauts and other diacritics are broken
Thanks Garry for bringing this to our attention. I noticed this for one entry back on the 16th, but I hadn't realised it was site wide. I hope there is an easy solution, the thought of correcting each error individually does not appeal.
Re: Waxworks
I remember having fun with this until I got to the ending, which was quite a disappointment.
- Wed Mar 04, 2026 10:11 pm
- Forum: It's all fun and games
- Topic: Chesterland Adventure
- Replies: 2
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Re: Chesterland Adventure
On the author's page, we are supposed to find the game's source code, but the link is broken.
Doing some detective work with the Internet Archive I'm not sure if "the executable, which runs in MS-DOS and Windows 95-2000. Source code included, originally written for the Borland C compiler in 1995 ...