klownybrown

Thanks a lot. We'll try Cart Commander right now.

Guess what, I did. I couldn't find any search tags that yielded a proper result though. "database" and "collection" and combination didn't work out. Any hints please?

Hey people, I'm at my friend's place at the moment, and we're wondering how to keep track of his growing collection of Atari Carts. To be more specific, we are looking for some kind of Database software made for collecting cartridges. Google sent us to collectorz.com, so we tried their "Game Collector" software. But quite honestly, it is not sufficient for our needs. We'll mainly need a few text fields like gamename, company, year, cart ID, that kind of stuff, and very important, a way to display cart scans (label and top), box scan (front and back) and one - or better two - screenshots. Export to external formats like txt, html, csv would be nice as well. I tried hacking up some MS Access thing, and to my surprise, my ten year old access skills didn't fail on me. The actual problem though, Access seems to be quite rubbish when it comes to including images into the database. I really want to avoid hacking up some Apache/MySQL/PHP web frontend/database, so: What are you guys using to keep track of your collection?

Thanks a lot! This was exactly the type of answer I was hoping for. So there's no excuse for delaying work on that birthday present any longer. Regards, Klown

Hello, I'm rather new to VCS development, so all of this seems to be a very vague plan. I want to write a VCS game, burn it on eprom, put it into a cart and then give it away as a birthday gift for a friend who is a very enthusiastic Atari fan. After reading up on BB, I thought it might save me loads of time, but there are still two major questions remaining: - Will the average BB project run on the real thing? ...and... - How do I write PAL code instead of NTSC? Is it just a different color table or do I have to fix other stuff in order to get a working PAL project? I'm sorry if those questions have been already discussed on the boards, if so, just drop me a pointer, thanks. Regards, Klown