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Frantic
Registered: Mar 2003
Posts: 1630 |
C64 Codebase
Hello!
It was a while ago now that C64 Codebase Wiki opened its doors. I would just like to encourage good coders sympathetic with this project to actually add some code there. This is important in order to keep the quality of the site. I feel that the quality is somehow fading a little with the stuff that has been added during the last 6 months, to generalize a little.
If you are a decent coder: Just think for a moment about all those sources that you have lying around on your C64 disks and PC harddrives. Codebase needs you!
http://codebase64.org/doku.php
If someone feel like donating some cool stuff, I could use that as prices in some kind of add-good-stuff-to-codebase-competition or so.
A good codebase is a good base for the future C64 scene! ;)
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Frantic
Registered: Mar 2003
Posts: 1630 |
Oswald: There IS a page for requests: http://codebase64.org/doku.php?id=wishlist
Nobody really uses it though. I added a note about the wish list page on the front page of the wiki now to encourage people to use it.
You got a point concerning the voting. It is indeed not clear that a lot of people would start to contribute more to the wiki just because there are votes on this and that article which state that "this is a bad article" or such. HCL's suggestion of more content-loaded statements (rather than number-votes) is perhaps a key here a way to leave feedback rather than just some general voting. Perhaps I should look into re-enabling the discussion plugin again. Last time I tried it it ended up being exploited by "hackers"/spammers.. Perhaps some bugs are fixed by now..
That being said, I don't see any reason to panic regarding the state of Codebase64. Fact is that a lot of people seem to find it very useful, even though everything in this world can of course always get better.. :) |
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Count Zero
Registered: Jan 2003
Posts: 1826 |
Frantic: is there some special pages as mediawiki provides them? can the "trace" be disabled? :)
Another approach in adding to the content would be to add selected articles from transactor, magic disk and others to the mags section - or at least list them more direct than: "DL it all here and see for yourself" :).
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Frantic
Registered: Mar 2003
Posts: 1630 |
@C0: Sorry.. didn't understand your question. Can you rephrase?
Regarding mag articles as a source for content I think that is a good idea. Many mag articles are quite short and perhaps not that up to date though... but still. There is this other wiki which is focusing on transcribing old c64 mag articles. If someone has the time to dive into that to find those articles that are relevant for codebase64, that would be very nice. |
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Count Zero
Registered: Jan 2003
Posts: 1826 |
Which one of them? :)
When browsing through codebase a "Trace" of recently visited pages is building up. E.g. "Trace: » start » base » vic » links ". IMHO thats just annoying :)
As for "Special Pages" I of course mean things such as "recent changes" which I saw, but I seem to miss pages such as "All Pages", "Missing Pages" and such?
As for transcribing - even when not caring much about an actual transcription a rip-off from a scanned PDF with the article excerpted and just a short note often helps perfectly.
Shameless ego-xample:
http://rr.c64.org/wiki/File:The_Transactor_Vol09_01_1988_Sep_Wa..
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Frantic
Registered: Mar 2003
Posts: 1630 |
Yo.. Trace can be disabled easily. I am not completely in love with that function either, but on the other hand I've started to use it just because it is there. :)
Regarding mags, it seems that I read your previous post too quickly. I thought you referred to disk mags, but now I see that you refer to printed mags.. I guess one could add PDF's then, yep.. |
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St0fF
Registered: Oct 2002
Posts: 40 |
I hope my few lines added to codebase are OK and useful. I assume Ninja has no objections, as his original source was published anyways.
Just have a look at http://codebase64.org/doku.php?id=the_ninja-method:nmis_and_dis.. and maybe place it somewhere else in the tree - I just thought it's a very intelligent stable-do-something-approach - so it'll fit into jackasser's series. |
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JackAsser
Registered: Jun 2002
Posts: 1995 |
Quote: I hope my few lines added to codebase are OK and useful. I assume Ninja has no objections, as his original source was published anyways.
Just have a look at http://codebase64.org/doku.php?id=the_ninja-method:nmis_and_dis.. and maybe place it somewhere else in the tree - I just thought it's a very intelligent stable-do-something-approach - so it'll fit into jackasser's series.
Just wanted to mention an additional advantage of using NMI-pages: If you can loose one cycle more you can easily have one extra page (with a jitter of 0-8 cycles) and thus automagically handle different CIA versions without detection. |
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Frantic
Registered: Mar 2003
Posts: 1630 |
Stoff: Thanks for the contribution. Didn't have time to check in detail right now, but according to my brief glance now it seems to be stuff of the good kind. Do not feel hesitant to make the changes that you propose. |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5031 |
indeed, great article by Stoff, the kind of I'd like to see more often. |
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St0fF
Registered: Oct 2002
Posts: 40 |
Thanks for all the flowers. It indeed helps a lot if you code stuff you want to explain yourself. I mean, I had Ninjas source, but I restarted from scratch - it was also my first own "half variance delay" routine in there (3 A4-pages of sick and mostly wrong calculations ...).
I guess one has to turn 30 to feel the fun again, just the way it was with 15 years ...
@Jackasser: I've tried a lot to loose another cycle - but failed. How would you get 8 cycles of jitter? |
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