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cba
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 935 |
Release id #102925 : Legion's Intro
<sigh>
Stop using .prg files, I'm getting tired of this, I keep on removing them, instead of somebody just doing it right from the start ;(
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11366 |
Quote:After the survey is finished, I'll send the results to the admins, for their consideration. Whatever happens, happens. I don't have any power here, but I'm still allowed to express my opinion backed by the survey, right?
do whatever you feel like :) keep in mind though that the admins only care about the technical aspects of the site, and the rest is maintained by the moderators. (and i really wonder why they even tolerate something like this.... oh well =P) |
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Digger
Registered: Mar 2005
Posts: 427 |
ANALSCAN.PRG sounds interesting. I think some people should undergo this procedure ;P |
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wacek
Registered: Nov 2007
Posts: 513 |
Anal Scanner by Beyond Force :) |
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Adam
Registered: Jul 2009
Posts: 323 |
using disk images to preserve stuff is far better than having prg files, and for me personally, that's a good thing. When I want to run them on my real machine I need to put the prg's into a D64 image anyway so I can write them onto a blank floppy. disk images are best ;]
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Rough
Account closed
Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 1829 |
I suggest next time using a "survey maker" coded on the C64 and uploaded as .prg
Seriously, I'm absolutely + CBA, 16 chars filenames are standard on the 64 (exception tape files), this is not CESDb. Figure what 'E' stands for... Hint: One starts with V, another with CC.
Gangsta's Paradise (the former? Chromance ftp) has got a lot of .prg files as these were uploaded very long time ago, partly in the 90s, when people just wanted the files, slowly I changed them to zipped .t64 and .d64 ones. But I stopped working on GP for no time and Lion being a prick. |
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bugjam
Registered: Apr 2003
Posts: 2583 |
While I fully agree that the original filename should be preserved, I am not sure if it really makes sense to put them into a .d64 if they are _only_ available as .prg - at least with regards to the filename history. The .prg's might have been renamed at some point to a filename longer than 12 or 16 characters; the information about the source of a file inside a .d64 is thus lost, if the .prg suffix is cut off when copying the file into the image. This could lead to the wrong assumption that a filename is original, while it isn't. But it is getting very academical here - kind of like that, though. :-) Personally I also uploaded (zipped) .prgs if my own source was already a .prg. If I convert from physical disk, I use of course .d64.
So while I agree with the general notion of preferring images over prgs, I support wackee's point in uploading prgs if there is no physical source, with a rather different argument.
I think convenience is not a point at all here, but I think we more or less all agree on that. :-) |
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wacek
Registered: Nov 2007
Posts: 513 |
Here are the results (no increase in votes in recent weeks so it makes no point to continue with it :D). You may of course consider them inconclusive, since only 80 ppl took time to do it.
The way I'd read them is that PRG should not be the preferred format (D64 is clearly the way to go), however a smart way of reflecting the reality would be making it AN ACCEPTABLE OPTION within the database, not a 'discouraged' format. Doesn't that make just a little bit of sense in the view of the results? ;)
I'll forward this to the mods & admins in a few minutes. Whatever happens, happens ;)
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