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Updated meta data focused on Spinnaker Software, Penguin Software, Polarware, and Windham Classics

New working software list items (apple2_flop_orig.xml)

Adventure Creator [4am, A-Noid]
Alice in Wonderland (Spinnaker Software) [4am, A-Noid]
Alpha Build [4am, A-Noid]
Counting Parade [4am, A-Noid]
Crime Wave [4am, A-Noid]
Magic Spells (version 1.0) (Advanced Learning Technology) [4am, A-Noid]
Paper Graphics (version 1983 revision 1) [4am, A-Noid]
Paper Graphics (version 1983 revision 2) [4am, A-Noid]
Paper Graphics (version 1986) [4am, A-Noid]
Pie-Man (revision 1) [4am, A-Noid]
Pie-Man (revision 2) [4am, A-Noid]
Reading II [4am, A-Noid]
Shortcuts [4am, A-Noid]
Sum Ducks [4am, A-Noid]
Sword of Kadash [4am, A-Noid]
The Graphics Magician (version 1.0) [4am, A-Noid]
The Graphics Magician (version 10.82) [4am, A-Noid]
The Graphics Magician Junior [4am, A-Noid]
The Math Busters [4am, A-Noid]
Trains [4am, A-Noid]
Transylvania (version 1982) [4am, A-Noid]
Transylvania (version 1984) [4am, A-Noid]

Redumped software list items (promoted to working) (apple2_flop_orig.xml)

Magic Spells (version 2.0d) (The Learning Company) [4am, A-Noid]

Removed (apple2_flop_clcracked.xml)

Swiss Family Robinson (imperfect clean crack)
The Wizard of Oz (imperfect clean crack)
Treasure Island (imperfect clean crack)

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Updated meta data focused on Spinnaker Software, Penguin Software, Polarware, and Windham Classics

New working software list items (apple2_flop_orig.xml)
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Adventure Creator [4am, A-Noid]
Alice in Wonderland (Spinnaker Software) [4am, A-Noid]
Alpha Build [4am, A-Noid]
Counting Parade [4am, A-Noid]
Crime Wave [4am, A-Noid]
Magic Spells (version 1.0) (Advanced Learning Technology) [4am, A-Noid]
Paper Graphics (version 1983 revision 1) [4am, A-Noid]
Paper Graphics (version 1983 revision 2) [4am, A-Noid]
Paper Graphics (version 1986) [4am, A-Noid]
Pie-Man (revision 1) [4am, A-Noid]
Pie-Man (revision 2) [4am, A-Noid]
Reading II [4am, A-Noid]
Shortcuts [4am, A-Noid]
Sum Ducks [4am, A-Noid]
Sword of Kadash [4am, A-Noid]
The Graphics Magician (version 1.0) [4am, A-Noid]
The Graphics Magician (version 10.82) [4am, A-Noid]
The Graphics Magician Junior [4am, A-Noid]
The Math Busters [4am, A-Noid]
Trains [4am, A-Noid]
Transylvania (version 1982) [4am, A-Noid]
Transylvania (version 1984) [4am, A-Noid]

Redumped software list items (promoted to working) (apple2_flop_orig.xml)
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Magic Spells (version 2.0d) (The Learning Company) [4am, A-Noid]

Removed (apple2_flop_clcracked.xml)
-------------------------------
Swiss Family Robinson (imperfect clean crack)
The Wizard of Oz (imperfect clean crack)
Treasure Island (imperfect clean crack)
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The change adding an Oxford comma to the HRW company name is definitely wrong.

But aside from that, as you can see in #14101, there’s a move towards putting multiple info values into separate elements to make filtering easier (e.g. “show me all the software the Mitch Stein was a programmer for”). It should probably be applied to the programmer info in these software lists at some point.

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<info name="developer" value="Holt, Rinehart &amp; Winston" />
<info name="developer" value="Holt, Rinehart, and Winston" />
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“Holt, Rinehart and Winston” is a company name (not the names of three developers) and does not contain an Oxford comma.

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You're right. I changed the '&' to "and", because that's the way it's written on images that I looked at. I completely missed the comma. I'll fix that everywhere later today.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1699041974i/5976788.jpg

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I'm responsible for putting & here - what's how it quickly googled. But "and" is more often afterwords and looks like proper way to name it.

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@cuavas Agreed on the Programmer switch to multiple entries. I need to write a script to do it and update all the 5000+ entries in the apple II lists. Does @holub have a script already?

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I did search and replace with regexp. I can push split for "programmer" item after you done with this.

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@cuavas - Fixed "Holt, Rinehart, and Winston". I also committed additional meta data fixes.

Start of meta data updates for Hayden Book Company / Hayden Software.
@cuavas cuavas merged commit c17da74 into mamedev:master Sep 9, 2025
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