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Ymgve
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 84 |
Converting C64 mags?
I've been thinking a bit and have wondered if there would be any interest in an effort to convert the text of old c64 mags into readable ascii that can be put on the web. This would make all the text of the old mags searchable and might provide a really valuable resource for the community. Does this sound like something viable or would it just be a waste of time? Comments please. |
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drake
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Registered: Dec 2002
Posts: 207 |
these magazines still can be read nowadays on a c64. so when you talk about privacy or ex-scene wars it doesn't matter. btw: who cares about that? addies became invalid and phonenumbers probably too!
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Ymgve
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 84 |
I was thinking more of that when it is put on the web, search engines like Google will have that information in a form that is 1000 times easier than finding some obscure diskmag, get the emulator, and look through there. I could of course prevent search engines from listing my site, but that does somewhat defy my goal for the project - to let the information be more accessible and searchable.
On a related note, why does CSDb exclude search engines from this site? Same reason?
Here's what I've done so far - there's no UI yet, so bear with me: http://www.dynedyr.org/c64mags/
(I hate Propaganda's custom character set, btw. Argh..) |
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cadaver
Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 1159 |
Great work so far!
About on-the-fly depacking, I can think of 2 ways and neither are too pleasant:
1) OCR off emulator screenshots
2) Rip out or reverse-engineer the depack code |
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Ymgve
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 84 |
For the moment I will have to do neither of these things, and just leave out the magazines that do on-the fly depacking. If anybody else would try to reverse-engineer that code it would be great :) |
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xIII
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Registered: Dec 2001
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I have done some (complete) text ripps from our diskmagazine Internal a long time ago... if I can find them I could send them to you. Maybe you can encourage me to do the other Internal mags aswell ;)
xIII/WOW |
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Gizmo
Registered: May 2003
Posts: 4 |
Heyzz, i saw one of our mags on there :) |
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Ymgve
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 84 |
I've updated with a simple PHP front-end now: http://www.dynedyr.org/c64mags/ - search is up and working, so have fun :) |
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Merman
Registered: Dec 2002
Posts: 140 |
Would you be interested in articles from Scene World? Most of them are in TXT format to begin with, although final editing may make important changes... |
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Ymgve
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 84 |
I'd be interested in any english diskmags that have been converted. The more the better :) |
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Newscopy
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Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 1 |
Fucking awesome work. This is definately a piece of work that can erectify the historic writings of the C64 scene. Not only was media a lifeform of its own at one point, but also a good encyclopedia and capsule of what was going on during certain times. |
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