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- Wed Jul 08, 2020 9:44 pm
- Forum: ZXDB Discussion
- Topic: New WoS and ZXDB
- Replies: 258
- Views: 59419
Re: New WoS and ZXDB
1. Gather some really short and strong facts together in one place (sticky-topic here on forum?). 2. Every time you meet new accusations or old myths, just leave the comment with link. This way Lee will have to spend more efforts for slandering than you for defenses. These are great ideas. This sou...
- Mon Jul 06, 2020 10:22 pm
- Forum: ZXDB Discussion
- Topic: New WoS and ZXDB
- Replies: 258
- Views: 59419
Re: New WoS and ZXDB
Fogarty: Ok, time to clear this up. After god knows how many pages of discussions, nobody from ZXDB has contacted me at all. Fogarty says: "Nobody from ZXDB has contacted me at all". But I see 22 posts from Einar in one thread "New WOS and ZXDB" in the Updates channel, which is ...
- Mon Jul 06, 2020 4:53 pm
- Forum: ZXDB Discussion
- Topic: New WoS and ZXDB
- Replies: 258
- Views: 59419
Re: New WoS and ZXDB
He took ZXDB, ignores any attempt to resolve this matter and I’m sure he laughs at all of us and feels untouchable. He can laugh as much as he likes. The community around ZXDB gets better every day, with no backwards steps. ZXDB is up-to-date, freely downloadable, multiple sites based on it, each p...
- Mon Jul 06, 2020 12:27 pm
- Forum: ZXDB Discussion
- Topic: New WoS and ZXDB
- Replies: 258
- Views: 59419
Re: New WoS and ZXDB
Lee Fogarty from WoS Facebook Group: ... From what I can make out, the claim is that we are using the ZXDB database. Totally untrue - the WoS db was created a long time before - using the original data files. The claim is: the current version of WoS is showing data that wasn't in Martijn's WoS data...
- Sat Jul 04, 2020 1:42 pm
- Forum: ZXDB Discussion
- Topic: New WoS and ZXDB
- Replies: 258
- Views: 59419
Re: New WoS and ZXDB
Lee Fogarty I think it needs clearing up exactly what "created by" means. And another reason the data has to go is some of the changes are dubious or un-needed. This is why WoS always wanted to credit people submitting changes, and list them on the whats new page. From what I can make out...
- Fri Jul 03, 2020 11:31 pm
- Forum: ZXDB Discussion
- Topic: New WoS and ZXDB
- Replies: 258
- Views: 59419
Re: New WoS and ZXDB
PHP-FPM can be used instead of mod_php. Mod_php is an Apache extension that put the full PHP runtime into each Apache child process. I don't think SC uses PHP-FPM, but HHVM instead. Which is a facebook-optimised PHP runtime. But you still need some http server, whether it is FPM or mod_php. And it ...
- Fri Jul 03, 2020 9:53 pm
- Forum: ZXDB Discussion
- Topic: New WoS and ZXDB
- Replies: 258
- Views: 59419
Re: New WoS and ZXDB
2. PHP-FPM cannot be used instead of Apache. It can be used with Apache OR with nginx (or with any other web server). Am I wrong with this one? PHP-FPM can be used instead of mod_php. Mod_php is an Apache extension that put the full PHP runtime into each Apache child process. I don't think SC uses ...
- Fri Jul 03, 2020 9:22 pm
- Forum: ZXDB Discussion
- Topic: New WoS and ZXDB
- Replies: 258
- Views: 59419
Re: New WoS and ZXDB
So I just don't see how serving files through PHP-FPM and then through Apache can be more effective than just through Apache. I'm not telling something is slow here, just wanted to clarify. Apache concurrency is limited to how many child processes you are running. 10 child processes, 10 concurrent ...
- Fri Jul 03, 2020 9:04 pm
- Forum: ZXDB Discussion
- Topic: New WoS and ZXDB
- Replies: 258
- Views: 59419
Re: New WoS and ZXDB
For the record, I have recently received some communications. For the record, no-one from the WoS admin team has responded fully to Einar's concerns in the same manner Einar raised them. And that same team is quite content to slander Einar and his work at every turn. That same team can pull its fin...
- Fri Jul 03, 2020 8:57 pm
- Forum: ZXDB Discussion
- Topic: New WoS and ZXDB
- Replies: 258
- Views: 59419
Re: New WoS and ZXDB
Note: SC doesn't use Apache to serve up static assets, and I believe it's using PHP-FPM -- which is why SC is still quick loading when dealing with traffic levels multiple times higher than what currently takes WoS down. Is it really so? As far as I can see, at least logo (which is a truely static ...
- Fri Jul 03, 2020 6:43 pm
- Forum: ZXDB Discussion
- Topic: New WoS and ZXDB
- Replies: 258
- Views: 59419
Re: New WoS and ZXDB
That is something else that has nothing to do with the forums. You're obviously confused. This is the Spectrum Computing form. This section is ZXDB discussion, so this thread - about the use of ZXDB on WoS - is perfectly on topic. The WoS forum, too, is even more so on topic. Remember when Fogarty ...
- Fri Jul 03, 2020 12:09 pm
- Forum: ZXDB Discussion
- Topic: New WoS and ZXDB
- Replies: 258
- Views: 59419
Re: New WoS and ZXDB
[ test changes in a development or staging area before pushing them out To be honest this also happens on SC sometimes. I know since I've done it myself :lol: On our hobby- and side-projects we all do it, until we get burned enough, then we evolve to deploying things in a more battle-tested way. :-...
- Fri Jul 03, 2020 12:00 pm
- Forum: ZXDB Discussion
- Topic: New WoS and ZXDB
- Replies: 258
- Views: 59419
Re: New WoS and ZXDB
There is no valid reason why new WoS can't support the ZXDB-minted id for titles that weren't in old WoS, thus preserving the ZXBD id. That's already been seen, as new titles not in old-WoS that briefly appeared in new WoS had the same id as those in ZXDB. When did the new titles get added to WoS? ...
- Fri Jul 03, 2020 10:28 am
- Forum: ZXDB Discussion
- Topic: New WoS and ZXDB
- Replies: 258
- Views: 59419
Re: New WoS and ZXDB
@Mike Davies Lee will never confess that WoS is using ZXDB. his ego won't allow him. it is like you were telling people that Einar stole the data, and ZXDB is crap, and then suddenly saying that ZXDB is better than your work. and now you have publicly apologize to Einar and other ZXDB-connected peo...
- Fri Jul 03, 2020 7:44 am
- Forum: ZXDB Discussion
- Topic: New WoS and ZXDB
- Replies: 258
- Views: 59419
Re: New WoS and ZXDB
WoS seems to be down.... It's a syntax error in the PHP script -- so Fogarty doesn't test changes in a development or staging area before pushing them out to a production server. Interestingly enough, the file being edited is the software details page. If past behaviours continue, perhaps he's addi...
- Fri Jul 03, 2020 7:28 am
- Forum: ZXDB Fixes
- Topic: Desert Rats 128k loading screen
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7561
Desert Rats 128k loading screen
I noticed in my recent spate of cassette tape testing that the 128k version of Desert Rats (on the B-side of Desert Rats) has two variants. https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/1357/ZX-Spectrum/Desert_Rats On the entry page for it, it shows a binoculars picture for the 128k version, which is correc...
- Fri Jul 03, 2020 5:23 am
- Forum: ZXDB Discussion
- Topic: New WoS and ZXDB
- Replies: 258
- Views: 59419
Re: New WoS and ZXDB
Now that it's irrefutable that the new WoS is using ZXDB, and that Fogarty is making changes direct to the database to bypass the changes/versioning layer of his CMS, and that the new titles added to ZXDB that briefly appeared on new WoS with their ZXDB minted ids: There is no valid reason why new W...
- Thu Jul 02, 2020 7:53 pm
- Forum: ZXDB Discussion
- Topic: New WoS and ZXDB
- Replies: 258
- Views: 59419
Re: New WoS and ZXDB
Einar, the Will Smith of the Spectrum community:
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBgeCZW3upg[/media]
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBgeCZW3upg[/media]
- Fri Jun 19, 2020 2:13 pm
- Forum: ZXDB Discussion
- Topic: New WoS and ZXDB
- Replies: 258
- Views: 59419
Re: New WoS and ZXDB
Regarding the useful gold mine of information on the forums, is there a plan (even if it's covert?) that's underway to somehow mine this, err, gold so that it doesn't get lost due to Lee's incompetence? Obviously, if it's covert then no-one's going to say anything... so I'll take that as proof that...
- Thu Jun 18, 2020 8:58 pm
- Forum: ZXDB Discussion
- Topic: New WoS and ZXDB
- Replies: 258
- Views: 59419
Re: New WoS and ZXDB
It turns out new WoS is using ZXDB ! More precisely ZXDB version 1.08 released on September 2, 2018. This is a remarkable piece of investigative work. Exemplary. I guess WoS now needs to acknowledge that it's powered by ZXDB, like every site using data from it. If that can be done in good faith - t...
- Sat Jun 06, 2020 5:31 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Definitive list of games incompatible with +2A/+3 and of compatible versions (if any)
- Replies: 158
- Views: 30989
Re: Definitive list of games incompatible with +2A/+3 and of compatible versions (if any)
Sly Spy Secret Agent (Hit Squad release) crashes on completion of loading the 128k side using a +2A's Tape Loader option. 48k version on the other side works fine. I tried the 128k version again by going into 128k basic, entering USR 0. 128k side loads fine, and I'm at the menu along with 128k music...
- Mon Jun 24, 2019 9:52 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Definitive list of games incompatible with +2A/+3 and of compatible versions (if any)
- Replies: 158
- Views: 30989
Re: Definitive list of games incompatible with +2A/+3 and of compatible versions (if any)
It’s likely the malformed TZX file. There are a few floating around that prose problems loading on real hardware. Incidentally, M.A.S.K. is one of them. This is loading the original cassette. I know for sure the original Gremlin cassette fails on the +2A, and worked okay with a Sony TCM 939 cassett...
- Sat Jun 22, 2019 8:48 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Definitive list of games incompatible with +2A/+3 and of compatible versions (if any)
- Replies: 158
- Views: 30989
Re: Definitive list of games incompatible with +2A/+3 and of compatible versions (if any)
I'm having a problem getting Gremlin's M.A.S.K to load on a +2A Spectrum. Today I've tried the Byte-Back version which looks to use the same loader as the original Gremlin release. It's the green & black stripey loader, where the loading screen loads line by line from the bottom upwards. The Byt...
- Sun Nov 18, 2018 7:00 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Definitive list of games incompatible with +2A/+3 and of compatible versions (if any)
- Replies: 158
- Views: 30989
Re: Definitive list of games incompatible with +2A/+3 and of compatible versions (if any)
Two recent games for me that don't seem to work on a +2A, but worked fine on a 128k: Bedlam Original GO! release: Game loads, but noticeable graphics corruption on the menu, and crashes when starting a new game. I haven't tried the Sinclair User cover-tape version. Guerilla War Original Imagine rele...
- Sun Nov 11, 2018 6:34 pm
- Forum: Website
- Topic: New Upload & Edit Facility
- Replies: 55
- Views: 13156
Re: New Upload & Edit Facility
Ok, first question. If I want to remove a game from a group, for example, I want to remove https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.php?cat=96&id=2778 from "vector graphics" group, how I must proceed? Seems to me that a "no group" option should be present at the top? Or a check...