wwww.yourcommodore.com
As a news site only, it was consuming rather large chunks of my time.
So, over to the community - some suggestions please as to what to use it for ?
I was hoping you had a lot of that stuff automated. If you are doing it by hand then I can imagine it would be a horrible time sink.
Would you be amenable to the idea of delegating some of those updates to some of the members of the community?
Quote from: plbyrdI was hoping you had a lot of that stuff automated. If you are doing it by hand then I can imagine it would be a horrible time sink.
Would you be amenable to the idea of delegating some of those updates to some of the members of the community?
I'm having all sorts of issues with my hosting companies SQL at the mo (as a result I've taken it down while I try & resolve this).
I'd possibly like to move the focus over to something like a hosting site for scanned magazines or something.
cheers,
Lance
I'd love to see more magazines scanned. Lots of them come up on eBay, but even though they usually sell pretty cheap, I don't have the cash to have them shipped here. Plus where would I put them all? Information in books is easy to come by, but information in magazines is unevenly distributed and hard to come by.
I love atarimagazines.com, even though the name makes me gag and all they've really got are Creative Computing and the COMPUTE! magazine line. Program listings and figures are also often missing from their pages. Craig Bruce's Transactor archive is invaluable, even though they exist only as scans and not searchable text documents.
I would love to see INFO preserved, of course. But though I've got two full sets, I just don't have the time to do all that scanning! Plus to get page scans into proper shape for decent OCR, you always need to do some manual cleanup.
Without the OCR, or at least someone hand-indexing everything, it's hard to find what you're looking for. And it makes it less likely that you'll find that wonderful information you didn't even know existed!
Well, if anyone wants anything hosted, I'll open the site to them (as long as it's Commodore related of course). Maybe build a proper Wiki ?
One thing we talked about on another thread was using the 'C128 Specific Products List' as a kind of index for a Wiki that would provide more info on those products - descriptions, prices, publisher/manufacturer, reviews, links to product-related sites, etc.
Now that would be cool.
Quote from: airshipOne thing we talked about on another thread was using the 'C128 Specific Products List' as a kind of index for a Wiki that would provide more info on those products - descriptions, prices, publisher/manufacturer, reviews, links to product-related sites, etc.
Now that would be cool.
That has possibilities - cover scans etc ?
How do people feel about MediaWiki ? Or is that over the top for what we need ?
cheers,
Lance
Actually a Wiki based around the product list seems a good idea - maybe expanding it to a 'canonical' 128 list (include hardware as well).
I think MediaWiki might be overkill though, can we get some suggestions for this ?
Lance
Quote from: adminActually a Wiki based around the product list seems a good idea - maybe expanding it to a 'canonical' 128 list (include hardware as well).
Actually, if you're going to do a wiki anyway - why not establish a *generic* C128 wiki covering *all* C128 topics?
Thinking about it, the whole commodore128.org site could be turned into a wiki (plus the forum and a download area).
Btw.: I'm not sure if "yourcommodore.com" would be a proper URL for a C128 wiki ;)
QuoteI think MediaWiki might be overkill though, can we get some suggestions for this ?
We're using MediaWiki for Aminet's wiki and I love it. It might be a bit more ressource hungry than other solutions, but from a user's point of view it rocks.
Quote from: KorodnyWe're using MediaWiki for Aminet's wiki and I love it. It might be a bit more ressource hungry than other solutions, but from a user's point of view it rocks.
MediaWiki is a big application for one person to administer though (my main issue with it).
It'd need to be administered by several people.....
Lance
Here's a proposed (rough) layout for a category structure for the Wiki. Okay, discuss. :)
C128 Wiki
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Community
Forums
IRC
BBS's
Newsgroups
Mailing Lists
Video/Audio
Conferences
User Groups
Software Archives
Documentation Archives
Retailers
Repair
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Reference
Books
Magazines
Video/Audio
Lists
C128 Software
C128 Hardware
C128 Books
Incompatible Software
Incompatible Hardware
Trivia
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Emulation
Emulators
Cross Development
PC
Mac
Linux
Communication
File Transfer
Star commander
OpenCBM
64HDD
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Hardware
Other CBM
IEEE Floppy Drives
IEEE Hard Drives
Computers
Other CBM
PET
VIC-20
C64
Plus/4 & C16
B128
C65
C128
Flat
C128D
C128D-CR
Current Commercial
CommunicaTions
Modems
RS232
Ethernet
Monitors
Composite
RGBI
Storage
Floppy Drives
Tape
Hard Disks
Printers
IEC
Parallel
Printer Interfaces
Interfaces
IEEE
Controllers
Joysticks
Mice
Cartridges
REUs
Misc.
Abandonware Peripherals
CommunicaTions
Modems
RS232
Ethernet
Monitors
Composite
RGBI
Storage
Floppy Drives
Tape
Hard Disks
Printers
IEC
Parallel
Printer Interfaces
Interfaces
IEEE
Controllers
Joysticks
Mice
REUs
Misc.
Hacks (Peripheral Modification/Enhancement)
CommunicaTions
Modems
RS232
Ethernet
Monitors
Composite
RGBI
Storage
Floppy Drives
Tape
Hard Disks
Printers
IEC
Printer Interfaces
Interfaces
IEEE
Controllers
Joysticks
Mice
Cartridges
REUs
Misc.
Homebrew (EXpansion & Invention)
User Port
Expansion Port
Cassette Port
IEC Serial
Video
RGBI
Joyport
Internal
MiSc.
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Software
Current Commercial
GEoS
GameS
Arcade
Adventure
Strategy
Puzzle
Board
MiSc.
Productivity
Wordprocessing
Spreadsheet
Database
Utilities
Disk
Printer
System
Tape
Development
OS's
Languages
BASIC
Compilers
M/L
Assemblers
Monitors
ROMs
System
Disk
Misc.
Abandonware Commercial
GEoS
GameS
Arcade
Adventure
Strategy
Puzzle
Board
MiSc.
Productivity
Wordprocessing
Spreadsheet
Database
Utilities
Disk
Printer
System
Tape
Development
OS's
Languages
BASIC
Compilers
M/L
Assemblers
Monitors
ROMs
System
Disk
Misc.
Homebrew
Demos
GEoS
Games
Arcade
Adventure
Strategy
Puzzle
Board
MiSc.
Productivity
Wordprocessing
Spreadsheet
Database
Utilities
Disk
Printer
System
Tape
Development
OS's
Languages
BASIC
Compilers
M/L
Assemblers
Monitors
ROMs
System
DiSk
CP/M
Misc.
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Other
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Commodore 64 Resources
That's a pretty darn good list.