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TheRyk
Registered: Mar 2009
Posts: 2076 |
Release id #26944 : SpritePad V1.5
This happens when nothing is upped _ON_ CSDb:
All external links are rotten as of today.
If no one can provide & upload an old V1.5 .ZIP for download,
the entry's a goner...
... would be a pity imho! |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11135 |
You could start with unlocking the entry... :o)
Also why are external links even still allowed? I FIXED ALL OF THEM once. bah
(I have the file...) |
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TheRyk
Registered: Mar 2009
Posts: 2076 |
touché and done :) Thanks for upping
Just BTW... though I've had an idea, why old versions and new version .SPD files seem to be incompatible (The 3 header bytes of old versions .SPD are not so hard to guess: $d021/MC1/MC2) I was too lazy to figure it out and could read the answer in 1.5 Readme.TXT
Quote:filename.spr.inf - contains just 3 bytes, background colour, multicolour 1, multicolour 2.
obviously that ".inf" is the header in 1.x Sprite Pad .SPDs (I've never bothered to find out, have always just cut off the 3 bytes header in Cross Assembler).
Quick and easy solution to handle .SPD files done with recent Spritepad in old versions of the tool is of course: Export/Import .BIN |
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Jetboy
Registered: Jul 2006
Posts: 219 |
Quote: You could start with unlocking the entry... :o)
Also why are external links even still allowed? I FIXED ALL OF THEM once. bah
(I have the file...)
There are lots of entries with external files that are no longer working. It's not only problem of CSDB but internet as a whole. Sites come and go, nothing really last forever :) So if we want to have the database intact, all files need to be hosted on csdb. |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11135 |
Yes, which is why i fixed all external links years ago (ie uploaded all the files). External links should have been completely disabled since then. But like every other thing that never happened, of course. |
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Raistlin
Registered: Mar 2007
Posts: 571 |
Yeah, there really shouldn’t be external links… why not set them to only be visible to mods? Or, yeah, remove them completely.
What happens with such as PC tools, though..? Theoretically some of those could be huge. Are they not allowed, limited in size, or..? I realise there that links can be put into other fields than “download” … like GitHub links etc… but if someone attached a 5gb ZIP for a PC tool/library, I assume that would fail..? |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11135 |
well, 5gb is probably a little bit excessive :=D
IIRC there never were any files more than a couple MB - well within the limits that mods can upload (for normal users its less). |
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TheRyk
Registered: Mar 2009
Posts: 2076 |
In general, for obvious reasons, we really want to host as much as possible here on CSDb and only in addition provide external download links. This also includes Other Platform Tools.
Of course we don't want to waste RAM by hosting 5GB of workstages (<- those can be dumped on imgur or similar services) for a single PETSCII or 256bytes demo.
But those are extreme cases.
If I didn't overlook anything, limit is currently 50 MB (not so sure if there's a difference between trusted/standard users anymore, in case you face a lower limit and hence, can't upload, just contact moderators or trusted users) which is sufficient in >99.9% of all cases.
IIRC the few cases in former times (with even lower filesize limits) were huge PDF papermags (where it might be argued publishers might also produce one with reduced resolution) or when developers included hundreds of MB PDF or video in the .ZIP of their download (<- which can be questioned in the first place, personally, no matter where I download software, I'm always rather fed up to download huge archive just to find 99.9% in the archive is only documentation, that stuff can also be told without wasting so much RAM and anything superposh can be hosted somewhere on the Internet and linked in the docs, e.g. videos and the user can decide whether to check that out or not). |
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spider-j
Registered: Oct 2004
Posts: 446 |
Quoting TheRykOf course we don't want to waste RAM by hosting 5GB of workstages
RAM? Does CSDb run on a RAM disk? ;-) |
