Archiving old and rare Amiga Software

[Skippy]

This is a little on going project of mine and I was just looking for a little help from the Amiga community.

Basically looking for vintage stuff, commercial [yes i know!!], PD, Shareware etc.

Stuff like NoiseTracker, Soundtracker, Xcopy, Dpaint etc the late 80s and early 90s.

Maybe when you have a minute look through my software directory and see if you have anything I am missing.

If so visit the software archive section for instructions on how to contribute.

For help with using FTP clients visit my faq internet applications sections with links to popular clients.

Thanks for your support!!

Skippy

[DoomMaster]

At last count, I have over 1000 vintage (mid to late 80s) Amiga DD disks, full of commercial software.  Including: SideWinder, Gods, Silkworm, DiskMaster, AMax, Pagestream V1.5, etc.  I probably have every Amiga program that was released in the 80s.  I personally am looking for Workbench 2.04 (all 4 disks).  Every time I have bid on these on eBay, I was outbid.  If you need a vintage Amiga program, lets talk buying or trading.     :-D

[Stew]

Hey I have a set of original 2.1 disks with the 2.04 superkickstart disk from softwarehut when I upgraded a 3000 years ago. Email me an off.


Stew

[lempkee]

doommaster: so gods are from the 80's ?  , please go check again.. IT say's something diffrent on the box.


skippy: why not get in touch with c.A.p.S since you obviously need someone to do the work for you (and they are getting huge) .

cheers

[Skippy]

Hi DoomMaster,

Not at all interested in games, but if you have a list of applications available then sure contact me.

One of my main reasons to archive such software is to restore my lost collection.

Basically mid 90's in my haste to have a house clearance I stupidly binned literally thousands of disks of Amiga software both PD and purchased commercials, something I will regret for the rest of my life...

The likes of such software has since been bettered and surpassed...

My reasons are not intended for financial gain nor acts of piracy, but to perserve a little history, being more of an 'old skool' Amiga user who is rekindling a little bit of nostalgia.

El' Skippo

[Stew]

"My reasons are not intended for financial gain nor acts of piracy"

  If I send you a copy of something via ftp is n't that piracy? I know the spirit in which you are asking but could a sender be in violation? Why not offer to but for the price of shipping and be all legal?


Stew

[Dietmar]

>Please help support this project [...] either .dms the disk or .lha the files then upload them

This is the first time I have heard software piracy described as "a little on going project of mine"

[DoomMaster]

To lempkee:

Yes, I received a pre-release commercial copy of the game Gods in 1989 for beta testing.  Gods was released in Europe toward the end of 1989.  It was released in the US in 1990 and won Game of the Year!  Gods also won a few Gold Awards in Europe and Game of the Year in several gaming magazines.  Gods was also released for the Super Nintendo in 1991 to 1992.  Many 2nd releases of the game was released for the Amiga and Atari ST computers around the same time that the SNES version hit the market.     :-D

[Skippy]

@Stew, yeah I guess offering a fee for the software would seem a reasonable approach.

@Dieter
I guess it does appear odd. Maybe do as stew mentioned above...

Uploading Public Domain material would be no different from uploading to Aminet and obviously any commercial stuff I buy, this sound more feasable?

Skippy

[Cyberus]

Personally I think that Skippy's idea's a good one in principle. I was thinking to myself about how cool it'd be to have adfs of all the coverdisks etc I have lying around cluttering up the place archived on a hard disk...


P.S. Skippy, doesn't your avatar breach the posting guidelines  :-P Or does it not because it isn't a 'post'

[Skippy]

@Cyberus
Nothing wrong with Marco Masini. If you've got lot's of old Amigacover disks you might like to know that there are websites dedicated to archiving them.

For example:
http://nthdimension.emuunlim.com/

This 'was' a useful site:
http://www.magazines.ch/
until it closed down.

 Why do people put so much effort into a good website then throw it all away!? It can still be found at archive.org

Ciao,

Sto Skippo

[Cyberus]

Well it was more the word written across the image in blue letters. I trust you know what it means?

[Skippy]

@Cyberus

[history lesson]

Critics said that Marco was a symbol of misfortune -- a loser, a moaner, a pessimist, a corrupter of teenagers, a singer that sang about a life too black, a singer that led his listeners into depression and even to suicide!!

After two years of silence Marco couldn't contain his temper any longer.

Although his collaborators warned him that he might ruin his image, Marco vented his rage in a song he released on his 1993 album 'T'innamorerai" called "Vaffanculo / F*CK OFF!".

His critics didn't notice that every day Marco Masini received dozens of letters from teenagers telling him how much his songs were a relief in moments of discouragement.

Besides many drug-addicts, teenagers told him in their letters that his songs helped themselves realize where they were and that they wanted to crawl out of the pit of drugs.
[/history lesson]

Ciao,

Skippy

[Cyberus]

Whilst I'm quite happy to hear about Marco, I don't need to be patronised by one of your 'history
lessons'.
I was merely trying to playfully allude to the fact that you had vulgar language in your avatar, and as such is a violation of the posting guidelines (not that I care, I was just trying to pull your leg), I wasn't making a personal attack..

[Skippy]

@Cyberus,

Wow! imagine how many people I'd patronise if I was a history teacher!

[history lesson #2]
The word 'vaffanculo' is hardly vulgar [rude maybe] it literally translates as 'it goes in ass' or sometimes referred to as 'go do it with your ass';

You could say:

'va a fa in culo' = 'it goes to it does in ass'.

'andate tutti a 'fanculo' = 'all gone to ass'.

'vai in culo / vada via in culo' = 'it goes/ in ass'.

Now if my avatar read as 'f*ca, f*ga or maybe p*ttana' then that would be considered vulgar.

[/history lesson #2]

Me ne vado, ciao; ma vaffanculo  :-o

Basta Skippy! Basta!