Looking For Hall Of Light Contributors

[CodyJarrett]

Hello folks. I'm looking for people who can help contribute to the Hall Of Light (HOL): http://hol.abime.net

It's a database of Amiga games that is maintained and updated by a regular team of eight and a group of contributors. There is, however, a huge amount of work still to do.

Here's how you can help:

- Screenshots.
We need to play through all commercial titles and grab screens through the whole game. This is going to take some time, especially with the likes of point and click adventures. If your favourite game has too few screens in the HOL or there is not enough variety why not grab some new ones?

The general rule is; the more the better. It's easy if you emulate - just load up WinUAE and use End+PrtScrn while playing through a game.

Here are some good examples of sets of screenshots:
[Note - there are screens here that some might consider spoilers. In the future these will probably be hidden until the user choses to view them]

Moonstone Screens (by Duke) - these screens have it all; variety, action shots and they don't leave anything out.

James Pond Screens (by KillerGorilla - the screens here represent the different levels of the game as well as informational, bonus and intro screens.

Another World Screens (by Cody) - the cinematic story can be followed from top to bottom.

Indy Jones & The Fate Of Atlantis Adventure Screens (by Cody) - a point and clicker that has been well and truly screengrabbed.


- Box Scans
As many of the core team have exhausted their own collections of Amiga games the scans now need to come from contributors. You don't need to supply as many as the top contributors (e.g. 2,356 from Toaks and 1,196 from Eggsplosion) and even if you only have a few games they would be welcome. If you've got a scanner check your collections and see if the HOL is missing any box scan or if an existing image could be replaced.

Please scan at a reasonably high resolution as box scans will be resized to 640x*.


- Data Fixes
There are still loads of mistakes and missing data. Suggestions for fixes would help immensely.


- Game Maps
Check out DeAdLy_cOoKiE's Exile or Carcharias' Faery Tale Adventure maps. They look cool and can be very useful but obviously take some time to put together.


- Conversion Screenshots
These are screenshots of the same game on other systems. You could load up emulators and grab a couple of screenshots (titlescreens and in-game shots) for the C64, Spectrum, Apple II, Megadrive, SNES, Gameboy...


It might also be an idea to jointly contribute to the HOL and Lemon Amiga. For example, the same set of raw screenshots could update a HOL entry and a LA entry at the same time.

Remember, if you contribute your name will be added to this hallowed set of folks: http://hol.abime.net/team.php#contributors!

If you've got contributions please email cody 'at' abime.net. They can also be uploaded to the FTP (remember to note who they came from):

Address = ftp.abime.net
Username = hol
Password = incoming

Thank you!