On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 03:59:43PM +0100, Aley Keprt wrote: > I must add that this GoodSAMC is a holy nonsense. Sorry that I complain > once again, but really - eh - where is any good point in having all these > non-official ZXS games "compilations" in a disk database? I bet every one > of us have got his own 10 or 30 ZXS disks. Should we have all these > "compilations" listed in GoodSAMC? I don't think so. The software like > GoodSAMC is good for MAME or similar projects, where it is used only for > official ROM releases which are always the same. But using it for private > nonofficial ZXS games "compilations"? Hey, I call it silly.
You're absolutely right. Also, I doubt that much of the software in GoodSAMC has been verified to see if the dumps are actually good! (IIRC, disks use a 16-bit CCITT checksum, which isn't brilliant.) > And as for archiving software, I would vote for a file-based format, like > TAP or something silimar. I agree. I think TAP might be fine as-is (but I expect that a lot of Speccy related software won't like SAM header blocks.) -- Stuart Brady
