> > 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
