At 11:26 PM -0700 5/6/00, Glenn Saunders wrote:
>At 09:54 PM 5/6/00 -0400, Garon Grainger wrote:
>> it's not up to date, but I was thinking of trying to breath some life
>> back into it.
> I like the look of what you did, but I'm actually thinking that we could
> use an even more robust solution, something database-driven with an admin
> to easily update it.
That struck me as well as I read through the thread... It would depend
quite a bit on people accurately labelling what they're posting though,
to make searching better. If I want to look at all Stolberg's samples,
or all versions of Oystron, how would I search? Perhaps we should
discuss a naming convention? Or an "organizing convention", as names
should probably stay in 8.3 format for greatest compatibility...
> Also there should be a way to categorize important posts and then query
> through them for what we are looking for, not just substring searches.
Again, an organizational structure might come in handy. In the long run
though, it would probably have to be a moderated process. And in general,
I think more tutorials and/or a FAQ would be the best, but these involve
reorganizing posts' content into well-thought-out documents, and who has
the time to do that. Bugger...
But I might suggest the following categories: submissions (i.e. original
code, to match source & BINs), coding ("why doesn't this work?", "how'd
they do that?", "what opcode do I need?"), game design (issues not directly
involving code), tools (DASM, emulators, specs, StellaGraph, MAKEWAV, etc),
OT: 2600 (games, companies, collecting), OT: Atari (5200, 7800, computers),
OT: other (other systems [not sure if Lynx & Jaguar should go here or in
OT: Atari though]). Comments?
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