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Incorrect spelling of the title

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The correct title is spelled with ONE L. TraveLer.[1][2] Hippo99 (talk) 04:00, 3 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, I wonder why it's spelled with one L on that screen, and two Ls everywhere else I've seen. BOZ (talk) 12:04, 3 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Good question, BOZ. TraveLLer is the UK spelling while TraveLer is the US spelling. (American_and_British_English_spelling_differences#Doubled_consonants) Maybe the British were tempted to put the second L? The original game (and its screen shots) bear only one L. In this light, Krell Software was a US (N.Y. based) enterprise. Hippo99 (talk) 13:38, 3 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Do we have an image of the box cover or owner's manual to compare? I'm sure that would settle it conclusively. BOZ (talk) 14:15, 3 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Of course that would do it... (besides the screen-shots and emulated game should have the same -or more- power). However, scanned covers or manuals of any version seem hard to come by... seemingly a not-so-popular game then. Hippo99 (talk) 22:15, 3 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
One L. I found ads by Krell Software Corp. in 2 issues of Compute!:
  • October 1981, Issue #17, page 37.[3]
  • December 1981, Issue #19, page 15.[4]

You can get the free PDF at archive.org. Hippo99 (talk) 07:03, 5 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ note spelling in-game
  2. ^ note spelling in screenshot.
  3. ^ Compute! October 1981, Issue #17 - page 37. (PDF)
  4. ^ Compute! December 1981, Issue #19 - page 15. (PDF)
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