C64 Intros Reorganizer

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Welcome to C64 Intros Reorganizer!

1. WHAT IS C64 INTROS REORGANIZER?

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An intro is a little program that preceedes a cracked game. It displays some

information about the game, the group who cracked it and usually fellow

crackers are greeted. This information is often presented using colorful

scrolling text, accompanied with some fancy music.

A great collection of intros for the Commodore 64 can be downloaded from

http://intros.c64.org.

You can find a huge collection of intros there, that can be played in a

Commodore 64 emulator or on a real Commodore 64.

The intros package that can be downloaded from http://intros.c64.org has

a few drawbacks. The naming convention is consistent, but not always clear.

Another drawback is that intros from all cracking groups that start with

the same letter, are located in the same subfolder.

Because of this, browsing the intros is not very comfortable.

C64 Intros Reorganizer makes browsing the intros easier, by copying or

moving the intro files to a more suitable folder structure. The folder

containing the intros is scanned and all recognized intros are copied to a

target folder. This target folder can be a new, empty folder, or a folder

that contains already a number of reorganized intros, that you want to

update with some new intros.

In the target folder, the subfolders A to Z are created if needed.

Under these folders, for each cracking group a subfolder will be created.

So if you want to watch an intro from the cracking group Eagle Soft

Incorporated, you will find these intros in E\Eagle Soft Incorporated.

2. HOW TO USE C64 INTROS REORGANIZER.

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C64 Intros Reorganizer consists of 2 parts: a script file and a data file.

The script file (C64IntrosReorg.cmd) performs the actions: it moves or

copies the intro files to a new location, creates a log file etc.

The other part is the data file (C64IntrosList.txt). This file contains

all information about the intro filenames and the name of the cracking group.

To get started, follow these guidelines:

* Download the intros package from http://intros.c64.org

* Extract this package to a folder on your harddisk

* Copy C64IntrosReorg.cmd and C64IntrosList.txt to the same folder

* Execute C64IntrosReorg.cmd

* Review the settings and optionally change some options

* Choose menu number 6 and confirm your choice with Y

* Wait until the reorganization completes

* Read the log file to see if there were any errors

* Browse the reorganized intros with a Commodore 64 or an emulator

3. COMMAND LINE PARAMETERS.

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All settings can be changed by the integrated menu. Another way to tell

C64 Intros Reorganizer how it should operate, is to specify one or more

command line parameters. A command line parameter always starts with a

forward slash (/). Some parameters have a trailing colon (:), followed by a

value for that argument. You can use these options:

/introsdir:"<folder name>"

Specify the source folder that contains the intros you want to reorganize.

If the path contains spaces, it should be enclosed in quotation marks.

This can also be set with menu option 1.

/outputdir:"<folder name>"

Specify the folder where intro files should be copied or moved to.

If the path contains spaces, it should be enclosed in quotation marks.

This can also be set with menu option 2.

/copy

Intro files will be copied from the intros folder to the target

folder, so the source folder will remain unchanged.

This is the default setting.

Backdraw is that it is hard to find out which files were not recognized,

if any.

This can also be set with menu option 3.

/move

Intro files will be moved from the intros folder to the target folder. If

all intro files are recognized, all .prg files will be deleted from the

source folder.

Only unrecognized intros will remain in the source folder after running

the script.

This can also be set with menu option 3.

/skip

If an intro file already exists in the target folder, the intro will not

be copied or moved from the intros folder. This is the default setting.

This can also be set with menu option 4.

/overwrite

If an intro file already exists in the target folder, the intro in the

target folder will be overwritten with the version in the intros folder.

This can also be set with menu option 4.