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Re: search engine for apple II file archives?
<kinkapalms@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> 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
Won't the Master Disk Catalog distributed with CiderPress build just such a
file?
-michael - NadaNet 3.1 and AppleCrate II: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon