In a previous message, carpman typed vigorously:
>Digging for hours in front of a CRT for newton apps becomes less fun every=
>time I do it. Besides the fact that most of the information about apps is
>out of date, or was wrong in the first place, it makes my eyes hurt. Being
>cheap as I am, insetead of buying a better monitor, I have (am) built
>(building) newtontracker.net
First of all, thank you carpman, whoever you are, for starting up another
project supporting the Newton community at large.
Secondly, I see a couple of opportunities here:
How about hooking in to the downloadable content found on the UNNA site
as a starting point for the tracker? The missing piece in this case would
be descriptive text for each piece of software. Filling in this
information would be a fairly mammoth task which might involve parsing
the read me files included in many of the archives. Daunting? Yes.
Impossible? Not really.
Any thoughts on this Victor? I think you had been tossing around the idea
of a more descriptive, text-based front end for UNNA at one time. Or was
that another conversation?
Additionally, would there be any benefit in contacting Jakob Peterh=E4nsel
of DNUG and merging the old Newton Versions database into
newtontracker.net? There was a ton of information (historical and
otherwise) in that database, and we have unfortunately been without it
for nearly two years now.
If someone is interested in following this one up (I already have too
many thing on my plate at the moment...), the last contact info I have
for Jakob are these two email addresses. The second one is the most
current.
info_at_dnug.dk
jakob_at_hjemme.dk
Just a couple of things to chew on.
g.
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