Some disks where listed in the index which had no files, so those entries were deleted. I think the problem was the catalogue itself was outdated. I did post about the numbering problems elsewhere on the forum. so I was wondering if this is a complete collection (=additional stuff) or just the stuff that is already on the CD-ROM's. but there are often disk numbers missing. Lotek_style wrote:Yeah I guess you did't get what I mean There are several Floppyshop CD-Rom's out there.
I guess it depends if people find the site useful or not. Once the core is stable (It should be now anyway) I may look into putting up other PDL's online in a similar way. If the site screws up unexpectedly, I may be working on the scripts, but probably will be no tweaks until I get some bug reports back from people. In anycase, AFAIK there isn't any bugs, but no doubt there will be some somewhere. I'm not going to start checking stuff on older browsers, lifes to short Strangely there are still a huge amount of hits on my site using FF3 and IE6. I tried not to use anything to fancy function wise. The site needs cookies and javascript to work. But for this particular setup, text file database is a whole lot easier and faster. At least then making changes to text files is easy, and I don't have to write a script to do the changes The timings were done in milliseconds, so either method is fast anyway. Anyway, after much faffing about, I just went with plain text files for the database. Sometimes SQL was over 100 times slower, probably a slow down in opening up a connection to the database. I also was planning on having a SQL database for this stuff, but after doing some testing, it was over 10 times faster to do a simple text file read and read in the whole file and parse it than calling a single read on a SQL database. That took a huge amount of time in itself. A lot of text files I had to write scripts to extract the info and sort it out into separate disk chunks. I'm not going to spend time on tidying up the ST info's at least not anytime soon, as there are thousands of files where there can be several or more programs on each floppy, thats a huge undertaking. But it is separated into separate lines on the Falcon disks. There are a lot of disk (mostly ST ones) where the info was just one large block of text. In that case, tough Search results can be limited to 10 or 50 results anyway.
#Searchable disk catalog Pc#
Be warned that the browse section can output a LOT of pages, so if you have a crappy PC it will most probably crash it. Keywords are highlighted in the search results. Anyway, you can search by key word or phrase, or browse the entire section. I don't know why people leeching the stuff on my site as mostly the ISO's are available on other sites anyway. I had to put captcha in there to stop leechers as there are some GB's of files.
#Searchable disk catalog series#
The entire floppyshop gold series is now online with a searchable database and every file is downloadable. Myself and my girlfriend have spend many days in reorganising the floppyshop database into a online searchable one.