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New GameBase64 Browser for Mac OS X

Fri Apr 09, 2010 9:47 pm

Hi there!

In the past few weeks I've developed a completely new GameBase64 frontend for Mac OS X. This is completely unrelated to the previous efforts or jGameBase.
[I want to link to some screenshots here, but I'm a newbie on this forum, so it won't let me. :-/ Anyway, imagine mind-blowing design and unprecedented ease of use here.]
It supports fast searching, browsing in a table or a screenshot grid view, allows people to manage collections of games, and it has optional color correction for the GB64 screenshots and lots of other goodies.

I'm looking for a proper way of getting the teams opinion on this, since I want to adhere to the license agreement. I'm not exactly sure about some of the details.
Basically .mdb is a non-option on Mac OS X, so I've converted the current (and previous) databases to sqlite3 format. The application will automatically download the database file matching the user's data files from my server.
Please note that this is not a real frontend for people who want create/maintain the database. There are no editing features. It's purely a browsing frontend for users.

Anyway, please let me know if it's fine to release this, since it's basically finished now.
And I also want to take the opportunity to thank all of you for the great work you've done so far. I found countless old games that I've already forgotten about while working on this. The quality of your work is outstanding.

Cheers,
Andreas
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Mon Apr 12, 2010 9:35 pm

Hi

Sounds interesting! To post pics/links I think you have to make 5 or 6 posts.
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Tue Apr 13, 2010 5:39 am

Yeah I know... ;)

But I'd rather just release it as a whole. So am I in adherence to the license agreement? Any thoughts?
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Tue Apr 13, 2010 7:51 am

Hi again

Is your app open source? The GB frontend is under the GNU GPL, so to comply with that license it would have to be too. For the GB64 license, you'd have to ask some of the other team. Pugsy and Michael Plate maybe able to help you further, try sending them a PM.

Cheers

James
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Tue Apr 13, 2010 8:00 am

Yes, it will be released under the GPL anyway, like my other Mac apps. But note that I did not base this on any of your existing code.
I'll contact the others about the database, thanks.
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Tue Apr 13, 2010 8:15 am

No problem. I'll be interested to see your app (I have a mac to try it on). Let me know what the GB64 team say!

You've nearly had enough posts now to link to a screenshot ;)
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Tue Apr 13, 2010 8:16 am

Yeah, just one more... ;)
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Tue Apr 13, 2010 8:17 am

After this one...
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Tue Apr 13, 2010 8:19 am

Go for it!
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Tue Apr 13, 2010 8:21 am

Nope, still doesn't work. My posts are not "legitimate" enough. ;)
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Tue Apr 13, 2010 8:25 am

Jimbo
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Tue Apr 13, 2010 8:30 am

Looks great!
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Tue Apr 13, 2010 5:12 pm

Thanks. It's only been a little over a month of work in my spare time yet, and I have many more ideas to implement in the future. But it should do fine for a 1.0 release.
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Tue Apr 13, 2010 5:46 pm

Looks excellent.

As long as your frontend is completely free (open source is a bonus) I see no problem, though it may be better to host the sqlite3 database on the gb64 site:

This was Michael's original response for jGamebase in 2006:-
We could add a download for the converted db on our website and you refer to our page. As long as it is available from our page only, I see no problem.
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Tue Apr 13, 2010 6:50 pm

I'm open to having the database files hosted on the gb64 site. Please send me a mail at sid(at)galway(dot)c64(dot)org to discuss this in detail.

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