Just an Idea - What do you think?

[CP/M User]

It just occured to me, that this site was lacking a place where you
can review things, things which we thought were very good or just
bugged us to the point where we have to talk about it. The
Amstrad CPC Forum at http://cpczone.emuunlim.com/boards has
gone to the trouble of creating a site for the reviews of CPC
games. But I thought with this site, why stop there?

This site has which covers a broad spectrum could cover all sorts
of things, since it has general discussions, rants, political
discussions, jokes, to Vintage Computing - Systems, Hardware,
talks about the site (where I 'am), Actions, etc, etc, etc.

The review of a product, would have to be of some significance
world wide, like discussing where the best of everything around
Victoria, Australia (unless people are visiting, then I'd suggest a
travel guide - unless they really wanted an opinion! ;-)

I feel it has to be something available to the world (via the
Internet), in the form of software, which has vintage significance,
such as an Emulator, or even a great piece of software for your
vintage computer?
Of course, I'd respect that if software was to have Vintage
Significance, then it should be older software, otherwise
you'd open yourself up to software based on something old
for Windows 95 or later (my EDSAC emulator for example).
Maybe this is too big a risk & would open to more off-topic
discussions (which are moved to the rants section).

Any it's just an idea, I'm not pointing the Gun at anyone! ;-)

Cheers,
CP/M User.

 

[Terry Yager]

I could prolly write a couple of vintage hardware reviews, if such an area were available. (IOW, I think a "Reviews" forum would be A Good Thing).

--T

 

[CP/M User]

"Terry Yager" wrote:

> I could prolly write a couple of vintage hardware
> reviews, if such an area were available. (IOW, I
> think a "Reviews" forum would be A Good Thing).

I think it's a good idea, but there are perhaps some
guidelines which would have to be set for this, cause
obviously, if it was a review of something vintage,
then it would depend on what it is & how to review
something. The best way I figured would be to do
without a scoring system, unless you wanted to give
it an overall rating. Say from 0 (absolute dud) to 10
excellent. Software could be compared with simular
software & so could hardware, computers, whatever.

But I also thought why stop there, when in the
off-topic section, you could have a review section
for other products (which everybody could relate to).
For example, I've talked about Movies in there, DVDs
as such, but music groups could be another - if you've
know of anything which might interest perhaps,
regardless of age?

I don't know, but maybe General Discussions in both
areas are the place, but it covers more than just
reviews would, or if sections like Software, Hardware,
computer subsections for that either, it just depends
on the amount of interest people want to share their
thoughts (without ranting or raving! ;-)

CP/M User.

 

[Micom 2000]

Quote
But I also thought why stop there, when in the
off-topic section, you could have a review section
for other products (which everybody could relate to).
For example, I've talked about Movies in there, DVDs
as such, but music groups could be another - if you've
know of anything which might interest perhaps,
regardless of age?
end Quote

There's already a place for that. It's called usenet.

I abandoned classiccmp because it had gotten so massive and with so many topics that were uninteresting to me, that it was untenable and too time-consuming. That works on a regional BBS but not on the huge place the Inet has come to be.

Lawrence

 

[CP/M User]

"Micom 2000" wrote:

>> But I also thought why stop there, when in the
>> off-topic section, you could have a review section
>> for other products (which everybody could relate to).
>> For example, I've talked about Movies in there, DVDs
>> as such, but music groups could be another - if you've
>> know of anything which might interest perhaps,
>> regardless of age?

> There's already a place for that. It's called usenet.

> I abandoned classiccmp because it had gotten so massive and with so
> many topics that were uninteresting to me, that it was untenable and too
> time-consuming. That works on a regional BBS but not on the huge
> place the Inet has come to be.

Ah yes, but the problem with that Lawrence, is Usenet is massive in itself & tends to be quite fragmented when it comes to the people who use it. In this situtation you can talk to your vintage friends & discuss off-topic material & what their views are. I found most of my 'net buddies just went to the same ol' groups (which is fine), but you can't really have a discussion without being off-topic! It just doesn't bring any dimension to people Usenet & plus it's time consuming jumping groups.

CP/M User.