The digitisation and preservation of games and software for the SC-3000 has so far been pretty thin on the ground. The guys over at SC-3000 Survivors have made a great start, with a handful of releases so far and an excellent tutorial on how to do it yourself with the M.E.S.S. emulator. I've been meaning to join in on this project for years, with about 100 .wav files sitting idly in a folder, languishing in digital limbo, begging for some digital restoration and remastering. I think 2019 might be the year I start to give it a red hot go.
Starting today, I'm going to try and commit to releasing a new digitally restored and remastered SC-3000 tape dump each week (but don't be surprised if I falter after the first week, life has a habit of getting in the way). This will build up a collection of digitised SC-3000 software I'm going to dub the "GreatS3k" set. The name comes from the old "Good" rom sets, but I'm going to include cover scans, tape scans, and manuals where I can, which makes it better than a "Good" set, it's a "Great" set (I see you groaning, and I chose to ignore you).
We might as well go alphabetical and start with the A's
GreatS3k Release #001: Addition Tutor
Addition Tutor was one of the very first games released by John Sands Electronics for the SC-3000 in Australia in 1983, and very likely part of the first batch of launch titles. It's not particularly fun or exciting, but if we discriminate against titles based on whether they are fun or exciting, than there aren't going to be many SC-3000 games to release in this collection.
