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Message: 6068
Author: andrewbroad
Date: 27/02/2007
Subject: Re: Massive MM/JSW update on TZX Vault and WoS
Daniel wrote:
>It's great to see the TZX Vault and WoS looking so complete and up to
> So Steve Brown has done it! The Jet Set Willy and Manic Miner
> sections of the TZX Vault are sparkling with "New" or "Updated"
> stars! Have a look at:
>
> http://www.tzxvault.org/j.htm
>
> and
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> http://www.tzxvault.org/m.htm
>
> (plus all of the other pages for other games).
date now, but I don't really like the way that parts of box-sets have
been pulled out as separate downloads, because:
(a) it makes the 'M' and 'J' lists unnecessarily long;
(b) it makes the 'M' and 'J' lists unnecessarily complicated, and
less conceptually elegant than the authors' intentions;
(c) it will cause MM/JSW completists who rely on these sites to click
unnecessarily many links and perform unnecessarily many downloads;
(d) the files formerly known as README.TXT are redundantly duplicated;
(e) the files formerly known as README.TXT lose their integrity when
they refer to TAP-files that not only have been converted to TZX, but
are in zip-files that have to be downloaded separately.
(f) some of the game-names (e.g. Jet Set Willy: ylliW teS teJ) look
a bit silly or less meaningful when taken out of the context of the
box-set that contains them (in this case Party Willy), giving titbits
the same status as 'full' games.
(g) this policy could cause a quadratic explosion of download-links
for games that have both several revisions and several variants (e.g.
JSW64: number of variants * number of hacklevels).
> The shockwave from this update has already reached World ofParticularly as I need the original TAP files to be hosted on WoS
> Spectrum, too, even though there will still be some updating there
> to do concerning non-TZX files, credits, etc. :-) .
before I can link to them rather than hosting them myself (my
website's storage-quota is currently 93% of 15 MB, and some of these
games take up 3% or more).
--
Dr. Andrew Broad
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/willy/
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