What to do with .....

Blacklord · October 02, 2007, 07:10 PM

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 ?

Guest · October 02, 2007, 10:08 PM

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?

Blacklord · October 03, 2007, 05:38 AM

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

airship · October 03, 2007, 05:46 AM

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!

Blacklord · October 06, 2007, 07:51 PM

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 ?

airship · October 07, 2007, 05:32 AM

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.

Blacklord · October 07, 2007, 08:14 AM

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

Blacklord · October 07, 2007, 09:30 AM

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

Korodny · October 09, 2007, 02:34 AM

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.

Blacklord · October 09, 2007, 06:41 PM

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

airship · October 12, 2007, 03:11 AM

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

Guest · October 12, 2007, 03:32 AM

That's a pretty darn good list.

What to do with .....

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