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Message: 6439
Author: andrewbroad
Date: 20/05/2008
Subject: Re: WOS and TZX Vault's policy on compilations
Daniel wrote:
>[quoting Steve Brown of TZX Vault]
> "Unfortunately I can't host tzx files of files that have been splitHmm... now I almost wish that I had released the Party Willy box-set
> up, as the whole point of the site is to archive original tapes,
> and the current tzx files contain everything exactly as they are on
> the tapes themselves..
>
> Martijn at WOS might though..."
>
> Martijn has asked me to upload the split TZX files again, but he
> has also explained that normally if multiple titles appear on
> 1 tape, that tape gets listed as compilation. An entry is added to
> the database for each individual title in the compilation, and
> everything is linked together.
as one big TAP-file with a BASIC menu at the start! It's not an
elegant solution for the emulator-age, but at least it would have
kept the number of entries on WOS and TZX Vault down.
Well, maybe it's not such a bad thing that some of the Party Willy
components got individual entries, but it could certainly influence
whether I concatenate the TAP-files I'm planning for my next
project... 8-)
--
Dr. Andrew Broad
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/willy/
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