Spectrum Computing

Martijn was working 35hrs a week on top of a full time job because he was the only one that could update the database and move the files. Most of the holidays he took to catch up on infoseek updates, and when he did go away there was often server problems. Added to that, many years ago he wanted to ...

Unless you have access to the FB admins group then you have no idea of what discussions happened or didn't happen. I was warned by several people in advance that it would be a mistake to aid Einar but chose to ignore the warnings.

The admins at the time had also spent (along with Martijn) some considerable time helping Einar create ZXDB. When was "the time" that time was spent by the admins and Martijn helping Einar? There's been a FB group chat around for a year. It was started when the core admin scripts were com...

The admins at the time had also spent (along with Martijn) some considerable time helping Einar create ZXDB. They had all expressed disappointment with his actions following our help which - as we were told - was to help WoS, whereas it seemed afterwards the intentions were very different. And as sa...

You do know the URL you posted is wrong?

I *think* I've fixed the leeching bug. I'm sure someone will let me know if I haven't....

The access to WoS data is far more & a lot easier than it was before. If anything, the walls are being knocked down.

I'm not even sure if you're being serious now.

permanent site logins to access all material,m (API keys), and of course IP banning is a good one... I registered late november to find my IP was blocked 24hrs after (without a first post made) to the live.worldofspectrum.co.uk subdomain, one that's still inforce as of today. Pity really.. Of cours...

Lovely to see peoples opinions here. Just for clarity, when I put the mags back on, I was slated because the page load time was too long with an issue being an average of 70mb. So, I reduced the thumbnails and made browsing quicker and easier. On SC, the thumbnails are actually the full size images ...

Yes we do. The new site will let people choose between text versions and images (where text has been done), and additionally the text versions are to be a part of infoseek. We aren't loading new data until we switch over in the new year as we are replacing the mags with hi-res too.

There's also the slight issue that at least 1 publisher will take legal action should they see their books in the archive. Which is why the new archive won't have them... Permissions change.

There's videos, loads of additional files for publishers, people, etc., the denied titles, books, denied magazines, hi-res inlays & numerous other documents.

I wasn't talking about the extra 1tb. I was talking about the existing archive.

Not sure how often to keep repeating. Archive.org DOES NOT HAVE THE FULL ARCHIVE. Not even close to full. The archive is a lot more than was publicly available - we are addressing that along with the new data.

Correction. The entire WoS archive isn't available anywhere else. It's currently around 250gb, with 1tb still to process - around 1/4 of that will be used. I'd be grateful if you'd stop fueling rumours that WoS is going anywhere thank you. As for the forums - the search works as well as it can with ...