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wacek
Registered: Nov 2007
Posts: 513 |
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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King Durin
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Registered: Oct 2007
Posts: 85 |
Quote: yes sure - i'd like to hear some ideas from other people who submit a lot though. just to avoid the pet-theory thing you know :)
I wanna know who's going to categorize the vast database of tools we have now into something more usable? Adding these new categories means nothing without categorizing the existing releases.
King Durin aka plbyrd
http://cbmcommand.codeplex.com
http://www.paytonbyrd.com |
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iAN CooG
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 3193 |
This is an open database, everyone who cares - must be registered and logged - can edit entries, like we already do since years =)
The only problem are locked and incomplete entries, but for those there are always mods and trusted users who can edit them anyway. |
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King Durin
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Registered: Oct 2007
Posts: 85 |
Quote: This is an open database, everyone who cares - must be registered and logged - can edit entries, like we already do since years =)
The only problem are locked and incomplete entries, but for those there are always mods and trusted users who can edit them anyway.
I bring it up because I think we need a few good men to step up and undertake this beast of a task. The results will be extraordinarily useful, so hopefully a few brave souls will be willing to help out.
I for one will volunteer to do some, but I probably can't do more than 10 or so at a time. I'll probably wind up downloading each one and using it just to see what it really does. Comments may ensue. |
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iAN CooG
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 3193 |
I add sids and music credits daily, few demos a day, if there is time and will, but I do it because I'm the first that have an advantage doing so, finding new sids and who did what and when, hence fixing HVSC sids. It's not a paid work and too bad, virtually infinite due to the amount of unverified data.
If there is will and time, anyone can give his little contribution, anytime. |
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cba
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 935 |
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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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11384 |
Quote:banning the uploading of .prg files
and t64/lnx/zipcode/othercrap ... yes indeed =) |
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Count Zero
Registered: Jan 2003
Posts: 1932 |
What Niels said :)
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wacek
Registered: Nov 2007
Posts: 513 |
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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Digger
Registered: Mar 2005
Posts: 436 |
+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: 2928 |
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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