Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dimensional Traveler Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: Lost Games Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2025 17:40:26 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2025 02:40:24 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="2015a80c55e4ed343b0cbea67a6d84f3"; logging-data="1465043"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+OCMwWFfHFRq9OxUJn/930" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:wR+UmmO0fnOSwyBvicnczZz0wJY= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2333 On 1/27/2025 7:23 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote: > On Sun, 26 Jan 2025 10:21:52 -0800, Dimensional Traveler > wrote: > >> On 1/25/2025 8:59 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote: >>> >>> * have I ever mentioned I have a spreadsheet where I log all my games? >>> I'm sure it must have come up before ;-) >>> >> https://clz.com/games > > I prefer a spreadsheet just because its more platform neutral and > doesn't require an online connection to use. Just drop the file > wherever and I have the data. Plus, it has all the fields I want and > is easy to modify. > > I actually had a database for it (not a real one; I used Access ;-) > but it didn't really add all that much in needed features and wasn't > as portable, so I went back to the spreadsheet. > *shrug* They have a half-dozen or so software packages for different things. I have the ones for Books and Movies (home media basically, VHS, disc). I find them useful as I have several thousand of the first and over 600 of the second. I'm also still on version 18 of both, haven't paid for the upgrades/updates, and they work just fine. -- I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky dirty old man.