First post, by DosFreak
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I've been working on my compatibility list for years, since 1999 (see signature for link).
Initially it was a simple text file and then I switched over to excel.
Excel works just fine but there are issues:
1. Requires an excel reader and requires compatibility with the excel document. Eventually compatibility will be lost somewhere along the way.
2. Excel document is growing bigger and bigger in size. Hosting it here at vogons it's around 700kb due to me compressing the hell out of it but it will only get bigger and the download seems to average around 250+ downloads a month.
3. Currently there is only one main view. All of the OS/Games and all other fields on one worksheet. Using a wiki and putting this data in a database I could have alot of different queries for all kinds of things.
4. I'm the only one inputting data. I like this.....it's what makes my compatibility list the best out there but......I'm only one person and there are tons of different hardware configurations and tons of games that I don't have that aren't represented on the list.
5. My list isn't as well known as it should be. I see way too many people on forums who should know something very basic (like using ScummVM or DOSBox) but do not. Putting the list on a wiki as opposed to an excel file should make it very easy to provide this information.
So anyone have any recommendations on good WIKI software? I need something that's easy to use since I'm concerned with inputting my results, not playing around with a WIKI all day.....
I suppose if we have the space on VOGONS we could make it the VOGONS WIKI (we have a DOSBOX wiki but it's only for DOSBOX games),
but I'd definetly need to have Admin access to it and a local copy since I'd probably be the one providing updates to it the most and it wouldn't be a totally open WIKI probably restricted to just MODS/Admins to make changes. (or is there an easy way to for a user to change a wiki but a mod/admin has to approve the changes?)
Eventually I'd like to integrate my game demos as downloads with the WIKI but I don't have the money or hosting space for that.......(although I will be buying 6 2TB HD's soon to replace the 6 1TB HD's in my home server......)