atrax27407 Posted May 18, 2021 Share Posted May 18, 2021 I am looking for a library program to catalog my software library. I am currently using Marty Kroll's CATRLIB but it is not exactly what I want. Does anyone have suggestions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparkdrummer Posted May 18, 2021 Share Posted May 18, 2021 I recommend DISKODEX by OPA. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted May 18, 2021 Share Posted May 18, 2021 CATLIB and DISKODEX were the two that immediately came to my mind for cataloging disk libraries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted May 19, 2021 Share Posted May 19, 2021 It looks like Gary may be lost somewhere in the ether, as he hasn't signed on since the end of August. His website has been dead since late last year, but the files are recoverable on the Wayback Machine (use 2018 and 2019 pulls). Here is the DISKODEX manual, but I don't have a copy of the program handy. . . He's definitely still alive, but apparently in a place where electronic communications are not possible (Name + Nintendo will be very enlightening there). No idea how that will turn out--but for now, he is definitely out of pocket. DISKODEX.pdf 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atrax27407 Posted May 19, 2021 Author Share Posted May 19, 2021 (edited) Found DISKODEX in Yesterday's News 05_02_1.dsk Edited May 19, 2021 by atrax27407 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+9640News Posted May 19, 2021 Share Posted May 19, 2021 9 hours ago, Ksarul said: He's definitely still alive, but apparently in a place where electronic communications are not possible (Name + Nintendo will be very enlightening there). No idea how that will turn out--but for now, he is definitely out of pocket. I just read an article. Very likely we will not see him around on this forum again. Bright mind but directed his energies along a poor path choice. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrhodes Posted May 19, 2021 Share Posted May 19, 2021 I'm honestly surprised Nintendo has not tried to squash the Tilda project yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixelpedant Posted May 19, 2021 Share Posted May 19, 2021 1 hour ago, jrhodes said: I'm honestly surprised Nintendo has not tried to squash the Tilda project yet. NOBODY expects the TI-99 Copyright Violation! Our chief weapon is obscurity!... obscurity and irrelevance... irrelevance and obscurity... Our two weapons are obscurity and irrelevance... and ruthless efficiency! Our three weapons are obscurity, and irrelevance, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to a 40 year old computer... Our four... no... Amongst our weapons... Amongst our weaponry are such elements as obscurity, irrelevance... I'll come in again. 1 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOME AUTOMATION Posted May 19, 2021 Share Posted May 19, 2021 2 hours ago, pixelpedant said: Our four... weapons are obscurity, and irrelevance, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to a 40 year old computer... and in my case at least diabolicalness! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atrax27407 Posted May 21, 2021 Author Share Posted May 21, 2021 I have been playing around with DISKODEX for a couple of days and found it to be a very good program. I have adopted the following procedure: 1) Use a large RAMdisk to save the disk catalogs to ( I can go through about 100 disks in 45 minutes or so). Saving them to a RAMdisk is very fast. 2) Once I am through with the catalog (I am going by "disk box"), I use ARCHIVER to compress the two files DISKODEX creates. 3) Save the archived files back to a physical disk. The files are small enough that I calculate that I will be able to get about 10-12 of them on a DSDD disk. So far, it has worked very well, indeed! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atrax27407 Posted May 23, 2021 Author Share Posted May 23, 2021 Just finished up my library catalog with DISKODEX. As of this minute, I have 17,134 files spread among 1039 disks. It worked out quite well!? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparkdrummer Posted May 23, 2021 Share Posted May 23, 2021 Told ya! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atrax27407 Posted May 23, 2021 Author Share Posted May 23, 2021 I decided to catalog a couple of boxes of 5.25" disks (mostly old master copies). It only took about 1-1/2 hours. Added almost 175 disks to the total. Now up to 1184 disks and 19,307 files. That is every TI disk in the house! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Schmitzi Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 Hi, what is/do you have the latest version of *DISKODEX ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atrax27407 Posted May 25, 2021 Author Share Posted May 25, 2021 The only version that I could find was the one in Yesterday's News 05_02_1.dsk. I have no idea if it is the latest verison. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparkdrummer Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 I’m pretty sure that one is the latest and greatest. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 On 5/23/2021 at 3:30 PM, atrax27407 said: I decided to catalog a couple of boxes of 5.25" disks (mostly old master copies). It only took about 1-1/2 hours. Added almost 175 disks to the total. Now up to 1184 disks and 19,307 files. That is every TI disk in the house! just in time for #525FloppyDay 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apersson850 Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 I didn't know there were such programs around. I wrote my own back in the 1980's. Same idea. But there were no RAMdisks around at that time, so I abandoned the project, as I thought processing time became too long when the number of disks included became large. But apart from that, it was a similar idea as with Diskodex. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atrax27407 Posted May 26, 2021 Author Share Posted May 26, 2021 By saving the disk directory to a RAMdisk, you make the original process much faster. Then, by archiving the resultant indices, you save an incredible amount of space. I have my entire library on a single DSDD disk with 450 sectors to spare. When I want to search for a file, I simply un-archive the appropriate group of files (they are arranged by disk box #) to a RAMdisk and the search is lightning fast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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