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A database of CHIP-8 ROM metadata

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New JSON structure #11

Closed Timendus closed 1 year ago

Timendus commented 1 year ago

TODO

[x] Finish platforms.json
- [x] Add missing platforms
- [x] Write missing descriptions
[x] Update README

Comparison to the other PR

Merging in the Space Invader meta data from #3, we now get this far:

Stored:
- Title
- Description (but closer to the "canonical" description)
- Year of release
- Author
- Platform(s) as a complex entity
- List of binaries instead of the one-on-one mapping
- Keys
Not used:
- Author objects (may revisit that in a future PR)
- Images (that's definitely coming in a future PR)
- Category -- don't really see the use yet if we have no way of filling that property
- Version -- most ROMs have just one version, so left it out
- All file names -- just the one for now; in fact, I'm considering removing file names all together because they are super unreliable for matching and thus add very little functionality
- Source code meta data -- seems only useful if we also share source, but then why not just add the binaries to this repo too... 😄
- Interpreter -- Could be fun to know, but again this is probably going to be a property that's almost always empty