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SIDWAVE
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Registered: Apr 2002
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DemoBase 64
Optic and me talked about a demobase project on IRC.
I think it's time now, while disks are still working.
Let's assemble a team, and divide the work, and get crackin'! :-)
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There is a lot of collectors, and I heard Graham has a big one.
Join!!
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Matt
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 598 |
am I interested?
fuck man yes I am!!
one request though, please sort the demos by groupname and not by demoname, cos that drives me nuts! 8) |
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Optic
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Registered: May 2002
Posts: 28 |
Matt:
I thought of arranging the demos/intros to individual folders by groupname, so don't worry... I hate the demoname first approach too.. |
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SIDWAVE
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The biggest problem with this, is that people work on their own, different schemes. We have talked and talked, and people are still building their own private collections, instead of doing it together. There has been arguments, how to name files etc.
That is ALL up to the task-group who will finally do it.
I feel since some month the whole thing has stalled.
It's a combination of lack of time, and unwillingness to get to an agreement how to make it.
Step 1 should be to discuss, which fields should the database have.
There's no reason to go anywhere before this is nailed down.
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Jazzcat
Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 1044 |
This is a ridiculous discussion.
Not that having a C64 Demo/Legal collection archive online is ridiculous. But the arguments about file structure and other petty things.
Don't forget the essential point of what an archive is. Filenaming is almost a fashion. Format should be emulator friendly. Not much else to say here.
As for all these people building their own collections. Some try and help here and there. They would all find there missing wares by working together (but that will never happen). I'm hoping someone just goes it alone (or with one or two SERIOUS people) and puts the damn thing online.
I did it with mags.c64.org - once you plant the seed, the tree grows from there. Don't try make a tree grow so much when you haven't even thought where to plant the seed.
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Matt
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 598 |
well I just wanted to state, as a demo collector that is :8 that going through somebody's collection is pretty hard when you have to search by demoname and not by groupname.
don't think it is that rediculous my man ;)
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Jazzcat
Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 1044 |
Matt: Have it so you have title/group. Have it so you can search either title or by group. Is it that hard? :)
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Matt
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 598 |
for example; yu know your collection from let's say group X isn't complete. you miss some demos but you don't know which ones. well, u look into the directory, search for group X and you know which demos that r missing in yer collection
simple as that
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Earthshaker
Registered: Sep 2002
Posts: 118 |
I myself use the following:
group name - (year-month-day) - demo name
<example>
Silicon Limited - (1992-04-23) - Spoiled Rotten.d64
I convert everything to D64 files because they are easiest to use. The complete dates are optional, if i don't know the date i use (19xx) and no more.
Maybe we can work out some standard first. |
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Graham
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Registered: Dec 2002
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i myself do the following: d0000.zip to d9999.zip. unpacking and content handling is done by a database frontend. i hate clicking through directories and stuff, especially with packed d64 files.
Earthshaker wrote:
"group name - (year-month-day) - demo name"
what if a demo was released by more than one group? |
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Earthshaker
Registered: Sep 2002
Posts: 118 |
Quote: i myself do the following: d0000.zip to d9999.zip. unpacking and content handling is done by a database frontend. i hate clicking through directories and stuff, especially with packed d64 files.
Earthshaker wrote:
"group name - (year-month-day) - demo name"
what if a demo was released by more than one group?
Well then it would be something like:
<example>
Genesis Project + Fire Eagle + Contex - (1989) - Aachen Meeting.d64
I also sort the demos in folders by group. So if, like in this case, there are 3 groups who produced the demo, i put the demo in every folder. |
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