Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-11-03 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 10/31/18 6:13 AM, Adam Sampson via cctalk wrote: > Al Kossow via cctalk writes: > >> On 10/29/18 12:54 PM, geneb wrote: >>> https://archive.org/details/walnutcreekcdrom >> It sure would be nice if you could get a comma separated list of >> metadata instead of a bunch of pretty pictures >

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-11-02 Thread geneb via cctalk
On Fri, 2 Nov 2018, Pontus Pihlgren wrote: On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 05:01:18AM -0700, geneb via cctalk wrote: Take it up with the Internet Archive. Not my circus, not my monkey. I'm sorry for barking up the wrong tree :) I should know better than to shoot at the messenger. No worries,

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-11-02 Thread Pontus Pihlgren via cctalk
On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 05:01:18AM -0700, geneb via cctalk wrote: > > Take it up with the Internet Archive. Not my circus, not my monkey. > I'm sorry for barking up the wrong tree :) I should know better than to shoot at the messenger. Cheers, Pontus.

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-10-31 Thread Adam Sampson via cctalk
Al Kossow via cctalk writes: > On 10/29/18 12:54 PM, geneb wrote: >> https://archive.org/details/walnutcreekcdrom > It sure would be nice if you could get a comma separated list of > metadata instead of a bunch of pretty pictures It's fairly well hidden, but you can indeed do that:

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-10-31 Thread Bill Degnan via cctalk
> > > >> > > > > It's very time consuming to browse through that though. > > > > It would be nice if you could make the service more > > accessible. A csv export of a table including metadata for > > each entry shouldn't be so hard. It would probably save you > > some bandwith as well. > > Take it

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-10-31 Thread geneb via cctalk
On Wed, 31 Oct 2018, Pontus Pihlgren wrote: On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 01:53:18PM -0700, geneb via cctalk wrote: On Mon, 29 Oct 2018, Al Kossow wrote: On 10/29/18 12:54 PM, geneb wrote: Here's the Walnut Creek collection: https://archive.org/details/walnutcreekcdrom It sure would be nice

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-10-31 Thread Pontus Pihlgren via cctalk
On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 01:53:18PM -0700, geneb via cctalk wrote: > On Mon, 29 Oct 2018, Al Kossow wrote: > > > > > > >On 10/29/18 12:54 PM, geneb wrote: > > > >>Here's the Walnut Creek collection: > >>https://archive.org/details/walnutcreekcdrom > > > >It sure would be nice if you could get a

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-10-30 Thread Bill Degnan via cctalk
On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 11:09 AM geneb via cctalk wrote: > On Tue, 30 Oct 2018, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote: > > > I have a file called November 1994 Walnut Creek CPM cdrom.iso > > is this it? ~635 Mb - 46860 files. > > Bill > > > Bill, that's one disc out of the hundred-plus that Walnut Creek

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-10-30 Thread geneb via cctalk
On Tue, 30 Oct 2018, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote: I have a file called November 1994 Walnut Creek CPM cdrom.iso is this it? ~635 Mb - 46860 files. Bill Bill, that's one disc out of the hundred-plus that Walnut Creek produced. g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-10-29 Thread Bill Degnan via cctalk
I have a file called November 1994 Walnut Creek CPM cdrom.iso is this it? ~635 Mb - 46860 files. Bill On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 10:52 PM Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > > > On 10/29/18 6:11 AM, geneb via cctalk wrote: > > > This is going to be a long term project that will end when I've either >

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-10-29 Thread Peter Corlett via cctalk
On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 01:46:50PM -0700, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > On 10/29/18 12:54 PM, geneb wrote: >> Here's the Walnut Creek collection: >> https://archive.org/details/walnutcreekcdrom > It sure would be nice if you could get a comma separated list of metadata > instead of a bunch of

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-10-29 Thread Ethan via cctalk
You realize that you can click a button and get a text list of those "pretty pictures", right? Click the "Show Details" checkbox and you'll get a block of text that describes each one. g. I would assume he means text listings / directory listing type view. - Ethan

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-10-29 Thread geneb via cctalk
On Mon, 29 Oct 2018, Al Kossow wrote: On 10/29/18 12:54 PM, geneb wrote: Here's the Walnut Creek collection: https://archive.org/details/walnutcreekcdrom It sure would be nice if you could get a comma separated list of metadata instead of a bunch of pretty pictures THAT is where IA is a

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-10-29 Thread geneb via cctalk
On Mon, 29 Oct 2018, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: Gee, I didn't know you collected old CD archives. I've got some WC CDs here: "Internet USENET source code." CDs 1,2,3 C/C++ Users Group Library August 1997 "Toolkit for Linus"-2 CD set. --- Developer Source Vols. 4-10

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-10-29 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 10/29/18 12:54 PM, geneb wrote: > Here's the Walnut Creek collection: > https://archive.org/details/walnutcreekcdrom It sure would be nice if you could get a comma separated list of metadata instead of a bunch of pretty pictures THAT is where IA is a colossal FAIL

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-10-29 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
Gee, I didn't know you collected old CD archives. I've got some WC CDs here: "Internet USENET source code." CDs 1,2,3 C/C++ Users Group Library August 1997 "Toolkit for Linus"-2 CD set. --- Developer Source Vols. 4-10 (1995-1998); archives of source code published in magazine

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-10-29 Thread Ethan via cctalk
Even a full list of what CDs Jason has there w/o indexing would be helpful. Trying to figure out what is there is a nightmare. For a while, I had about 400gb of cd images on bitsavers until we ran out of disk space. I probably have a few hundred more gb I've read since then. I've slowly been

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-10-29 Thread geneb via cctalk
On Mon, 29 Oct 2018, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: On 10/29/18 6:11 AM, geneb via cctalk wrote: This is going to be a long term project that will end when I've either exhausted the available CD-ROMs on the IA, or I die, whichever comes first. ;) Even a full list of what CDs Jason has there

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-10-29 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 10/29/18 6:11 AM, geneb via cctalk wrote: > This is going to be a long term project that will end when I've either > exhausted the available CD-ROMs on the IA, or I > die, whichever comes first. ;) Even a full list of what CDs Jason has there w/o indexing would be helpful. Trying to

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-10-29 Thread geneb via cctalk
On Mon, 29 Oct 2018, Tomasz Rola wrote: On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 06:11:14AM -0700, geneb via cctalk wrote: First up is the addition of Crescent Software's entire product line. The company produced a number of good library suites in the late 80s and early 90's. Note these are all DOS products -

RE: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-10-29 Thread geneb via cctalk
On Mon, 29 Oct 2018, Ali wrote: Next up is a HUGE CD-ROM and FTP site archive I've been working on. http://www.retroarchive.org/cdrom/index.html What I've done here is pull CD-ROMs from the Internet Archive and make them easily browseable. I've also extracted the contents of each of the

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-10-29 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 06:11:14AM -0700, geneb via cctalk wrote: > First up is the addition of Crescent Software's entire product line. > The company produced a number of good library suites in the late 80s > and early 90's. Note these are all DOS products - the Windows > product line was sold

RE: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-10-29 Thread Ali via cctalk
> Next up is a HUGE CD-ROM and FTP site archive I've been working on. > > http://www.retroarchive.org/cdrom/index.html > > What I've done here is pull CD-ROMs from the Internet Archive and make > them easily browseable. I've also extracted the contents of each of > the > zip, etc. files and