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 franz_opa hoplaa! 79 Posts #199 (14 years, 3 months ago) |
I think that platform page should be arranged to categories (i guess, by manually editing platform page instead of creating any new category system)
This would be especially helpful for people without not much knowledge about old machines. They could instantly get some kind of idea what are the relationships between different machines and to what periods they belong here is the first suggestion for categories 8-bit generation of home computers (early & mid 1980s) Amstrad CPC Atari XL Commodore 64 MSX MSX2 MSX2+ VIC-20 ZX Spectrum 128 ZX Spectrum 16k/48k/+ (BBC Micro) 8-bit generation of game consoles (1980s) Nintendo (NES) Sega Master System Sega SG-1000 Mark III 16-bit generation of home computers (1985 - early 1990s) Amiga Atari ST Atari STe 16-bit generation of game consoles (1987 - early 1990s) PC Engine Sega Megadrive/Genesis Super Nintendo Neo Geo Handheld game consoles (1989-) Game Boy Game Gear (Neogeo Pocket) (Wonderswan) IBM PC compatible computers PC custom & soundcards & tracker formats japanese home computers FM Towns Sharp X68000 (MSX Turbo R) (PC-88) Fifth & sixth generation game consoles Nintendo64 Sega Dreamcast Others: ATmega88 Crap Miscellaneous Newschool Arcade Atari Falcon Z80 / ULA (or is this 8-bit computer?) |
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franz_opa hoplaa! 79 Posts #1335 (10 years, 5 months ago) |
Platforms were re-organized recently (November 2013).
-- I think this category called "hardware" is redundant. It is confusing that some PC music is placed there, it would be more handy to put all the PC music to the same place. Thus I suggest that different PC sound cards could be seen as subcategories of the "Computer PC" branch, for example "Computer - PC - OPL2 (AdLib / early Sound Blaster)" etc. I think Konami SCC could be placed under "Computer MSX" category and floppy drive as well as ATmega88 could be placed under "miscellaneous". Thus the whole hardware would disappear. -- Similarly, I think that "utility" categories should be subcategories of "computer PC" since they are all PC music. In this way all the PC music would be found from the same place. I'm afraid it make some people confused if PC music is scattered in different places. |
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 MAT Objection! 106 Posts #1336 (10 years, 5 months ago) |
Utility such as Cuebase at first ran on Atari ST, current version on PC, so it is not just tied to a single platform. At least according to wiki, I'm not familiar with actual software not its history.
Hardware was initially just Sound Card category, but wanted to include other hardware like Microchip or Floppy etc, hence made it slightly broader. Actually, MT-32 and such isn't only tied to PC, we have to split on other platforms, but yeah, some platforms could be further cleared. At the moment we have many things mixed, basically I tried to sort what already existed without deleting platform or adding new ones (except Official OST). |
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MAT Objection! 106 Posts #1337 (10 years, 5 months ago) |
Your point was quite sound, my friend.
I removed Hardware category, and added MT-32 and all those sound cards to their respective computers, PC or MSX, since MT-32 existed as sub-categorized on two more computer systems, so it is only logical to have PC under PC. Moved microcontroller and floppy music under miscellaneous. |
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franz_opa hoplaa! 79 Posts #1342 (10 years, 5 months ago) |
Good... Btw, I think that the old OPL3 platform logo could be restored (only for OPL3, so it does not restore the confusion). The text is too small on that current Sound Blaster logo.
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 Stefan_L Deleted by request 167 Posts #1343 (10 years, 5 months ago) |
I made a new OPL3 icon... is it ok? 
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franz_opa hoplaa! 79 Posts #1344 (10 years, 4 months ago) |
I appreciate your efforts though I really miss the original one (with a green circuit board)
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MAT Objection! 106 Posts #1345 (10 years, 4 months ago) |
That was a circuit board? I thought it was green monitor, just as red circuit board icon looks like red monitor to me 
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franz_opa hoplaa! 79 Posts #1389 (10 years, 2 months ago) |
Right now each platform menu page has set so short that Amiga platform has 37 pages!
Needless to say it is very painful to browse it like that, so please change it back. 5 pages of Amiga platform was painful stupid enough, it should have rather been made longer than shorter. |
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FishGuy876 FishGuy876 / Brainstorm 484 Posts #1390 (10 years, 2 months ago) |
Hi,
I changed the values to lower ones to help with the speed of the site while navigating under heavy traffic. Ive now set them to much higher values, so there is additional wait between some pages, but I'll keep an eye on it. Thanks. |
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 Dankore4 Posts #2009 (3 years, 9 months ago) |
Thank you for sharing! This is very interesting information for me.
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