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The Shadow
Registered: Oct 2007
Posts: 304 |
Adding A BBS Section...
There have been discussions in the forums, in the past, about adding a BBS section to the CSDb. Perff told me that he would consider adding a BBS section when he finds the time. He does not know much about the great boards that supported the 64. For
such a section to be added, we all must describe more about it.
Detailed information is needed about BBSs, for this to happen. Does anyone have any ideas? |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11360 |
mmmh is board software really all that important? if we add that, then we want to add what kind of equipment the board used too - and that will get *really* messy very quickly =D
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wreg
Account closed
Registered: Mar 2004
Posts: 679 |
if you allow that much, it will get stored in a nice way
and if you dont support this or that, it will just end up in the trivia-field or even worse, in the comments :-)) |
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Frantic
Registered: Mar 2003
Posts: 1647 |
According to my experience BBS people usually pay quite a lot of attention to the software used, so.. I guess it should be included. |
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taper
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 119 |
Indeed BBS software should be listed, aswell as the hardware the BBS ran on!
There is a vast difference between different BBS programs, just take C*Base and UCBBS as examples.
Also, boards have run from everything from a stock c64 with a 1541 to c64 with Super CPU, Swiftlink/T232, HD, RAMLiNK and such, so it would be very interesting to know what a specific BBS ran on (when this is possible). |
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Jazzcat
Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 1044 |
BBS Software - yes.
Hardware - nice to know, maybe not quite as important though.
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DemongerX
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Registered: Jun 2002
Posts: 137 |
I agree, bbs software should be a must. You could often tell the feel of a bbs just by the software used(ie. ucbbs is very distinctive in how its setup, whereas you can generally tell if a bbs is a ivory or image or cbase, just by how the prompts respond.) |
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Stan
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Registered: Apr 2004
Posts: 187 |
BBS software would be appreciated.
Groups and magazines hq-ships regarded as most important. |
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Burglar
Registered: Dec 2004
Posts: 1089 |
also, for presentation, relevant data should also be shown on group/scener/mag/release, so links back to the board pages. but that should be pretty obvious.
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11360 |
burglar: yes ofcourse. all kinds of related "backlinks" are implicit (and well, they are easy to add once the rest is implemented, so thats nothing to get a headache about =P)
mmmh so, basically 3 things are missing from my proposal so far?
1. the bbs software ... imho the best way to reflect this would be simple links to release entries in the bbs entry
field type subfield
software used link to release timespan (one or more)
this would make it easily possible to not only point out what software was used, but also credit said software correctly, upload it etc. and most importantly, it would be a lot less problematic than using a selection list, which then would need constant maintenance, and would grow ridiculously large too =P
2. used hardware. i am not really sure how to implement this in a useful way. since there are no database entries for hardware items, pretty much the only way would be a selection list - however that could easily grow into a mess due to all the different stuff that should possibly be in such a list, and it would mean constant maintenance too.
3. associated magazines. this is really a tough one. were there really so many mags with official associated boards that some text or even links in the trivia couldnt cover it properly? however, i cant really think of a decent way how to represent this info in the database at this point - unless someone else has a clever idea :)
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Burglar
Registered: Dec 2004
Posts: 1089 |
about mags, quite a lot of mags are tied to a magazine staff group, like The Pulse Magazine Staff. so you could use a group as a sort of replacement mag id. not elegant, but simple and easy. |
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