chip's Collection - ADA (Amiga Demoscene Archive)

[chip]

Hello Basty, thanks for the info

About the upload speed, it seems normal now, so no need to try anything anymore

Sure remain the fact that i did nothing and the speed is changed a lot of time in a random way ..... really weird

[chip]

So, i can confirm for sure now

Upload speed is come back again at his normal (impressive) level

Really don't ask me what i have done, since i have done nothing at all !

Anyway this mean for ADA no splitted archive anymore

[chip]

I just want to share my thinking of this moment

I really don't know what will be the future of ADA

I would like to be like DamienD who has worked on his collection for a so long period

But i guess i am not the same kind of person

Indeed in my life i always changed my interests and now it's already 5 years that i am busy with ADA

Fact is that to do things in the right way (to collect all the demo releases around) i need at least the same amount of time

I don't know if i will do that guys

I am not saying project is dead .... at the moment it is still active

I am only saying things could change in the near future

That means project could be stopped .... or perhaps i only need a break, who knows

[chip]

After some days i better thinked about this

Well, i taken a decision .... for now ADA will go on

At the moment i really don't have the courage to trash away all the work done

But i well know myself and for the future it's not so sure .... sometimes i leave the projects without no return

Yep, a bad part of my person i should say .... no one is perfect

[Crashdisk]

Cool, this is good news but don't forget: You are the master of your project and you have the right to take a break or give yourself more time between each distribution.
After 10 years on the TOSEC project, I take regular breaks, work on other projects and then come back to TOSEC with motivation

[chip]

Thanks for your words Crashdisk

Yep, motivation is the magic word, it's probably normal that it can go down sometimes

Like you suggest, also taking a break could be useful ..... i will see

Cheers, chip

[chip]

After some thinking about the future of ADA, it's time to return to facts !

So, i just uploaded a new version of the collection

ADA now contains 17.319 files for a total size of 3,86 GB

Enjoy

[Amiga1992]

Are you keeping a changelog chip? Would be great to know exactly what was added each time you update.

[chip]

No Akira, no changelog .... i am sorry

[Amiga1992]

Maybe for next updates? Would be nice. if not, you know, still thankful for this.

[chip]

I understand that it would be useful .... but i am too lazy

Anyway thanks for the appreciation Akira

Even if i am doing ADA for personal pleasure, positive feedback are really good further motivation for me

[Amiga1992]

Originally Posted by chip

I understand that it would be useful .... but i am too lazy

You're not! It takes a ton of time to make this pack.
I'm just being greedy

[chip]

Well, that's sure

But without spending time no real project can be done IMHO

[chip]

Time to update the statistics of ADA

The collection now contains 17.453 files for a total size of 3,90 GB

Enjoy

[chip]

I never talked about how my collection is organized

May be it is something obvious, but i need to say just some words anyway

The ADA folder is divided in many folders which are groups or single authors

I made no differences between authors that belongs to no groups and groups

This difference is instead done by other collections .... it's just a choice, i like it more in this way

In the end there's a folder called "(Unknown)" which logically contains productions for which is impossible to find the author

[chip]

And i never talked about how my collection is made

Another obvious thing perhaps, but better to be precise

ADA is builded from the scratch, no other collection is used as the base

This doesn't mean no other collections are considered, at the contrary all other collections are taken

This only means that each single file is checked before it goes in the archive

I don't rely in any way on the work done by other to quick up the process

In other words each release is verified to be good, even if for preservation purpose also not-working productions are kept

I am using all the possibles sources for building the collection: CDs, ftp servers, BBS backups, disks collections and so on

Real problem here is the time, i don't think i will be able to scan more than 1.720.000 files in this life !

[chip]

Time to update the statistics of ADA

The collection now contains 17.618 files for a total size of 3,95 GB

Enjoy

[DamienD]

chip, IMHO number stats are meaningless and don't tell anything useful...

I know you don't and won't provide update packs.

...but can't you at least list what you've updated?

[chip]

If someone spot the collection for the first time, i guess statistics can be useful to know what's inside the archive he can download

About a list of new added releases i found it meaningless for the project itself

ADA is a big archive of demoscene, it is perfect for all users which want a single file with all the releases ready to use

I don't want to be rude, but this is really the way i like to distribute the collection ..... take it or leave it

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by chip

If someone spot the collection for the first time, i guess statistics can be useful to know what's inside the archive he can download

You are a strange one chip...

How can "be useful to know what's inside the archive he can download"; when it's just numbers?

Originally Posted by chip

About a list of new added releases i found it meaningless for the project itself

How is telling what actual files are inside your collection meaningless? More so with updates that you do?

Much more meaningful that a bunch of numbers

Originally Posted by chip

I don't want to be rude, but this is really the way i like to distribute the collection ..... take it or leave it

Be rude all you like; I have zero interest in your collection so will never use