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wackee
Registered: Nov 2007
Posts: 263 |
Subtypes for tools?
Was this suggested before? I cannot believe it was not :)
Please, oh pretty please, let's have a subtype for 'C64 Tool' - we have mode for the gfx, why can't we have something for this one?? It's so logical I think... At the very least to have 'Gfx tool', 'Sound tool', 'Disk tool', 'Packer' etc.
It such a pain in the ass to look for tools here when you're developing a release or want to do something very specific. And you're convinced there is already a tool to do it, but most querries return squat. My example: I was looking for something for automatic transfer from turbo-tapes to disk, and no querry returned A.T.T.A.C V1.0 - I spotted it in the comments of some other tool, whereas A.T.T.A.C V1.0 was the only one which met all my requirements. Same for gfx-to-char converters, for example ;) |
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cba
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 873 |
I add demos/tools/cracks etc. and would love to see more categories.
In fact I would love to have more standards for csdb that are really followed, like banning the uploading of .prg files and finally csdb v2 !, would be nice if this would really happen ! |
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Groepaz
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 5850 |
Quote:banning the uploading of .prg files
and t64/lnx/zipcode/othercrap ... yes indeed =) |
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Count Zero
Registered: Jan 2003
Posts: 318 |
What Niels said :)
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wackee
Registered: Nov 2007
Posts: 263 |
There are right now 5000 tools in the database.
If we split it by name and do it in stages - for example letter by letter - it could be done progressively over some weeks, I guess.
For example, A is just ~230 entries, of which like 15 are different versions of Action Replay, or Abuze Cruncher :)
The situation in which you need to download & run to check what the tool does will be really rare, I think.
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DGGR
Registered: Mar 2005
Posts: 133 |
+1 for CSDB v2.0 :)
Also Wackee's suggestions makes sense to me – lots of useful tools are falling into "too generic" category of C64 Tool (i.e. http://noname.c64.org/csdb/release/?id=89406&show=summary) |
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Moloch
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 604 |
Lots of people make updates to CSDb entries all the time. I easily make 30-50 updates a week in casual mode and when motivated could do 2 or 3 times that in a day.
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Graham
Registered: Dec 2002
Posts: 970 |
Just put all the current tools into the "Misc" category, the rest will happen automatically. |
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enthusi
Registered: May 2004
Posts: 571 |
I guess some experiment could be made:
- split all 5000 tools into groups by first letter (as described above).
- people here raise their arms as to which group they will attend, i.e. 'enthusi takes care of categorizing all tools starting with "t"
- for each change any of you made, sent 1 eur via paypal to me, so I can evaluate the overall progress ;-)
If this works: Im fine :) And the issue is settled and similar things might even be accomplished for other things in CSDb.
It's like that awesome Hexquisite Ptoing launched once elsewhere - just more boring and much less beautyful :) |
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wackee
Registered: Nov 2007
Posts: 263 |
That experiment needs to be started with basically implementing the feature.
Any progress there? |
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wackee
Registered: Nov 2007
Posts: 263 |
Bump this mutha up!
Any word, dear csdb mods & admins? :) |
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