Amigazone versus Merlancia

@harv,

Sorry to hear about the worm, but maybe your ISP can do a better job in the future of keeping your system updated.

As for the rest, I think we need to step away from the keyboard before someone gets upset.

Wayne

[hrlaser]

Wayne wrote:
@harv,

Sorry to hear about the worm, but maybe your ISP can do a better job in the future of keeping your system updated.

As for the rest, I think we need to step away from the keyboard before someone gets upset.

Wayne

It isn't the hosting company's responsibility to maintain customer co-lo machines. It's the machine owners' job. Luckily, my friedship with this ISP goes back a very long way so things are being done which I can't do from home and would require a very long trip and a lot of time I don't have to accomplish.

Again, all of these things are irrelevant to the purposes of any of this thread which started out with ridiculous, unfounded, baseless rumors and I've wasted way too much time dealing with this thread already.

Harv
 

[irishmike]

@harv

Sure, I am familiar with Wildcat, I believe that is a BBS package or is this different software?  Anyhow, I understand what you are saying.  As I said, it is a friendly suggestion, nothing more :-)


I wish you the best however you choose to go forward and I am glad that your project has had the longevity and place of stature in the community.

So my best wishes to you :-)

Mike

[humppa]

@hrlaser

I've wasted way too much time dealing with this thread already.

Alright, so why not speak about some more important stuff...

Is Dr. Czerwinski still alive? Or is only his PhD gone?
Maybe you got some insider-info about the upcoming release of the Merlancia Tsunami (bundled with OS5)?  :lol:

[hrlaser]

irishmike wrote:
@harv

Sure, I am familiar with Wildcat, I believe that is a BBS package or is this different software?  Anyhow, I understand what you are saying.  As I said, it is a friendly suggestion, nothing more :-)


I wish you the best however you choose to go forward and I am glad that your project has had the longevity and place of stature in the community.

So my best wishes to you :-)

Mike

We are running a much more upscale version of Wildcat than a basic kitchen table BBS. It costs a lot more and can accomodate many more simultaneous logins and has many more services than the basic package.

It might be old but it's still supported, still upgraded with patches and new features, and still serves its purpose as AmigaZone's platfom quite nicely.

The beauty of it is that you can access it in numerous ways - you can read exactly the same message bases and download exactly the same files (over 100,000 of them) via Telnet with Zmodem, via a Web Browser, or via an FTP client. Our file library has many exclusive files that were never posted anywhere else due to my doing deals with magazines like Compute, Jumpdisk and others to acquire permission to exclusive rights to put their disks and cover disks online for my membership.

Maybe no one really cares anymore about downloading 1985-ish Amiga programs. You'd need an Amiga 1000 with OS 1.3 to run them, or Amiga Forever emulating 1.0/1.1/1.2/1.3/2.04/whatever. Maybe some people care. I care. I think it's an important historical archive and I will do whatever is humanly possible to keep the system up and running as long as it's worth doing. When I decide it's no longer worth doing, that's when it'll go away. And not a minute sooner.

The President of Portal said something interesting to me when AmigaZone moved there in 1991. I asked him why he started the company and he said "I like to manage huge amounts of information." I thought it was a strange thing to say at the time, but years later it made very good sense to me. Portal made him a billionaire. It got him on the cover of Fortune magazine as one of the richest (people under some age) in the country.

Running AmigaZone never made me rich. Writing hundreds of articles for 16 magazines, writing Amiga manuals and Editing Amiga books didn't make me rich. AmigaZone is a legacy hobby for me. It's something I'm unwilling to give up. I have some extremely dedicated members who've been with me through all of this and they don't want to see it go away either.

Harv

[Edpon]

@Harv

I, for one, appreciate you and any other person who's willing to put out meaningful information, downloads, articles, etc, for the rest of us to enjoy, even if it is only when you're able. I also like the fact that 68K Amigas are pretty well covered, no matter what site you go to. So thanks Harv, and all the rest of you who make OUR hobby, OUR computer an enjoyable pastime, even though it might be "dated" or "dead" to the rest of the world.

Ed
 :-D

[Argus]

Hey Harv!

Keep up the good work.  I remember reading your articles in Amazing Computer many years ago and always loved the Twilight Zone-like theme of your site.  It was really cool then and continues to be.

All the best

[hrlaser]

Argus wrote:
Hey Harv!

Keep up the good work.  I remember reading your articles in Amazing Computer many years ago and always loved the Twilight Zone-like theme of your site.  It was really cool then and continues to be.

All the best

Thank you. Kind words for a change.

AmigaZone was named in honor of Rod Serling's original Twilight Zone series (1959-1964) and its main Web site graphic is an homage to the series' opening titles.
It was my favoite show when I was young, and although I've seen every epside dozens of times, I still enjoy it. I thought it was way ahead of its time, just as Rod Serling himself was. He created a bright light of brilliance in a vast wasteland of mediocrity. I had a chance to meet him briefly when I was young (My late Dad knew him well).. and didn't fully comprehend just what a genius he was. He's one of my heroes and that's why the site and the service has the name that it has.

Harv

[pierre]

harv, don't know you, but we care for your work and its appriciated. THAT"S why we would miss the hell out of it if it went away.  Think of your self a celebrity, the news will say nasty things but only because they care, if your servers go down and nobody starts talking, well then it's over... right?

So thanks, keeep up the great work and let them talk, glad you came and joined us!