{"id":648,"date":"2007-09-30T15:23:11","date_gmt":"2007-09-30T07:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2007\/09\/30\/organising-games-collection-with-gcstar\/"},"modified":"2007-09-30T15:25:58","modified_gmt":"2007-09-30T07:25:58","slug":"organising-games-collection-with-gcstar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2007\/09\/30\/organising-games-collection-with-gcstar\/","title":{"rendered":"Organising games collection with GCstar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a little while today entering my games collection into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gcstar.org\/\">GCstar<\/a>, a great open-source personal collections manager.<\/p>\n<p>Using GCstar is easy. You just start a video game collection and then enter games by typing in their names. It searches a range of websites to find details on the games (including box\/case images and screenshots). You can also add a list of borrowers and set it to automagically send reminder emails; neato!<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s even a cute &#8220;game shelf&#8221; view with all your games displayed on a virtual shelf. Here&#8217;s a screenshot (resized to fit in a blog post):<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"image647\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/gcstar_games.jpg?w=840\" alt=\"gcstar_games.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s much better than that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnome.org\/projects\/gnumeric\/\">Gnumeric<\/a> spreadsheet I was maintaining by hand&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Conclusion<\/strong>: Highly Recommended&#8230; but I wish there was a decent open-source web-based collections manager (that I could run on onetwenty.org).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a little while today entering my games collection into GCstar, a great open-source personal collections manager. Using GCstar is easy. You just start a video game collection and then enter games by typing in their names. It searches a range of websites to find details on the games (including box\/case images and screenshots). &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2007\/09\/30\/organising-games-collection-with-gcstar\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Organising games collection with GCstar&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-as","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}