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Re: search engine for apple II file archives?
In article <483d5d50-04ad-4f9f-b76f-c3a64e7fd7c6@googlegroups.com>,
kinkapalms@yahoo.com.au wrote:
[...]
> Back in the old days, an extra site index was maintained on Asimov
> (IIRC) that included the contents of all DOS 3.3 disk images. e.g.
> "index.of.dos3.3.disks.txt". This was really handy for looking at
> what files were included in disk images. The last DOS 3.3 index file
> I have here with me is from 1995. Not sure when they stopped being
> updated / created.
>
> Sample contents of this "index.of.dos3.3.disks.txt" file:
>
> ::::
>
> /pub/apple_II/images/games/rpg/Akalebeth+.dsk.gz
> ******************
> * *
> * GAME DISK #1 *
> * *
> ******************
>
> *T 002 AKALABETH
> *A 005 STAR SEED
> *B 139 KONG
> *A 026 PENNY ARCADE
> *B 098 GO
> A 024 STAR LANES
> *A 015 SUPER COLLISION
> *B 057 SABOTAGE
> A 004 BEGIN
> A 086 AKAL
> *B 031 LUNAR LANDER
> T 002 SS
[...]
>
> I don't recall what software generated this listing - there's no
> "created with....", etc included in the text file.
>
> It would be good to generate an up-to-date catalog of all disk images
> - ProDos, DOS 3.3, etc.
>
> If it would help, and if I had a suitable indexer tool, then I would
> be prepared to re-create such an index once a month against my Asimov
> mirror and upload it to Asimov.
>
> I just checked out MacGUI City
> (http://macgui.com/downloads/?mode=search), and this ia an excellent
> tool, but I'm not sure how up-to-date its index is. e.g. I searched
> on "Thunder" trying to find the "ThunderBombs" game that we have been
> discussing in another thread here, and it wasn't found.
I used Apple Commander and a shell script to create a similar index of
Mike Harvey's Nibble disk archives:
<http://home.roadrunner.com/~jbmatthews/a2/nindex.html>
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John B. Matthews
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