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Re: search engine for apple II file archives?

On Saturday, 21 July 2012 08:39:39 UTC+10, twalkowski  wrote:
> Why not just open the file "site_index.txt" and use the "find" feature of whatever tool you're viewing it with?

Because that only lists the files (disk image names) in the archive - NOT the contents of those disk images.

So, it's no good for the 100's of disk images where the contents are not part of the file name.  e.g. what other files, games are on these disk images: exterminator+.dsk.gz, falcons+.dsk.gz, etc ?

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                              

/pub/apple_II/images/games/rpg/xyphus_2.dsk.gz
   B 004 CIT                             
   B 026 MAP00                           
   B 026 MAP01                           
   B 026 MAP02                           
   B 026 MAP03                           
   B 026 MAP04                           
   B 026 MAP05                           
   B 033 PICTURE00                       
   B 033 PICTURE01                       
   B 033 PICTURE02                       
   B 033 PICTURE03                       
   B 033 PICTURE04                       
   B 033 PICTURE05                       
   B 018 TABLE00                         
   B 018 TABLE01                         
   B 018 TABLE02                         
   B 018 TABLE03                         
   B 018 TABLE04                         
   B 018 TABLE05                         

::: etc:::

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.

Moose