Re: List of Apple II Sirius Software Titles - complete?

[Hot Rod <hotrod.apple2@gmail.com>]

On Sunday, August 26, 2012 11:26:57 PM UTC-5, BLuRry wrote:
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> > The only one I could find that's not on your list is "Star Cruiser".
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> > We were discussing MobyGames above.  To save adding a another post I'll add some further thoughts here.  IMHO, there are lots of issues that make MobyGames unsuitable as a games cataloging site, and these are particularly serious:
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> > * They deface all of the screen shots with their logo.  How dare they !
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> > * The search results are fixed at 25 per page.  I want to be able to list any number I like per page. e.g. 1000 per page.
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> > * They claim Copyright over everything: "MobyGames™ Copyright © 1999-2012, MobyGames.  All rights reserved. Do not duplicate or redistribute in any form."  This claim is bogus.
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> > If the Apple 2 community does a lot of work adding games / content to MobyGames, then it will suffer these terrible restrictions and they will have no rights to their own work.
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> > Any Apple 2 catalog I contribute to will need to be free of all such restrictions.  All such information should be FREE / public domain.
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> > In addition, anyone should be allowed to download a copy of the database / web site for off-line searching / browsing or for on-line mirroring - either the whole thing or the parts they want.
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> I struggled with this sort of thing also when I was pondering what to do for game descriptions and screen shots in Apple Game Server.  I was unsure that copying these directly from Moby would be a no-no because of the bogus copyright garbage.  If there were a reuse-friendly source of information I would gladly integrate it with Apple Game Server and make a more detailed game catalog.
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> -B

A repository for Apple II program info would be wonderful (an ad-free one even better).  There's so much rich metadata that could be included too (like secret keys and such).  I'd be contributing info right now while I go through stuff if there was a decent place to catch it.  Figuring out what versions of things I have versus what's online is a bear, with only titles to go by.