they'll get to that, trouble is, they have to filter out the dross first, if you look at the other good utils, any confirmed good dumps are marked ! thats what will probably happen to goodsamc, i dont know why the author allows "crap" to be listed in the renamed db, instead of just acknowledging the existance of the crap in the db, and only renaming good stuff - i guess its just easier that way
> -----Original Message----- > From: Aley Keprt [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 25 April 2001 13:55 > To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no > Subject: Re: GoodSAMC > > > > And, finally, it refuses to accept disks with more than 80 tracks > > (maybe all except 80, but I have only 80, 82 and 84). > > > > Must be a non-80-track thing, as it also complained about undersize SAD > > images - your 'alternative module player' comes on a small SAD image, > > and that had to be converted to DSK and then back to 80 track SAD for it > > to be recognised! > > Really? > It's called "Aley's" instead of "Alternative". I don't know who the f. > wrote > the worng name into the database. > And I don't know why it has undersized SAD. Isn't the file corrupted? > (just > a question) > > > <ponder> > > As Dean mentioned, it's the first release so hopefully it'll be > > improved. It seems to need: > > - gzip support > > - support for SADv2 (recognising gzip file with .sad extension) > > - support for non-80-track SAD images > > - disk format understanding for better equivalence checking > > In other words it must read/unpack each file into memory, and then test > the > checksum. > > > The initial list seems to have done quite a good job of gathering up > > most demos and utils, even if it did pick up some commercial ones along > > the way - oops!. Tho the list does contain quite a lot of unnecessary > > duplicates - maybe it'd be more useful if the 'unofficial' ones were > > weeded out? > > You never know what is official. It contains tens of "spectrum games > collection" or "demos collection" images. > That's why I wrote it is a nonsense to make database of diskettes. > I think we should build a database of ROMs instead. (real roms - MGT Sam > Basic version 1,2,3..., SamCo ROM, etc.) > > Aley
