inRetroSpect

I have decided not to develop inRetroSpect anymore as a Windows executable. It has gone just about as far as I can imagine bar rewriting it. I am quite interested in learning more about developing Web applications and that is what I hope to do with inRetroSpect. I want to change it to using a SQL Server database rather than an Access one and have it so that anyone can access it and recommend updates from this site. I am doing this to purely learn how to write a Web App using ASP pages.

Amendment 07/05/2006:

The amendment mentioned above is now much more than a work in progress. The development with ASP I felt was a great success personally but with the better development tools available (i.e. Visual Studio .NET (currently 2005)) to myself I have been able to make even further progress. I have grown in confidence with the structure of the site with this and it will soon be available; I’m just waiting to decide a few things:

1. The name of the site and where it should be hosted (any recommendations for the site name are readily accepted).

2. What downloads should be available (if any at all). I think not, due to the minefield that is providing Roms/snapshots emulation-wise. I would do this but it means going through a database of 7000+ games.

3. The main page structure. I don’t want it to just be a search engine.

The Windows executable will always be available and can be downloaded here.

If you do not have a Microsoft database program (Access, SQL Server, MSDE) installed on your PC then you will need to install the Jet Engine components. The self-extracting file is available here.

2003 Chris Bourne (inretrospect@blueyonder.co.uk)

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