Archiving old and rare Amiga Software

[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!

[Bezzen]

@DoomMaster

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.

The Bitmap Brothers claim the game was first released in March 1991 for the Atari ST, Amiga, Archimedes and the PC. And ported to the Mega Drive (Genesis) and SNES in 1992. My bet is that they have a pretty good idea when they released their game.

[bloodline]

Converting every Amiga DD possible to an ADF is a very worthwhile project.

I know that it will be considered by many as piracy, or at least breach of the copyright. But these old disk are degrading every day... they must be saved!!!

[Framiga]

@Cyberus

that is the original cover of Masini's song.

That "vulgar language in your avatar" is the title of a Masini song not by Skippy.

The question should be:

1-Why has him chosen that avatar?

2- Why if i wite #### the AO system ghost it? while if i write cock, not?

Ciao

[Lo]

@Doommaster

  I never could figure out why GODS would not fully display the snake sprites on my rev 6.2 A2000 Pro Computer, do they on yours?

 Lo

[Skippy]

Ciao Framiga e ciao a tutti belli e brutti popolo,

1: I have chosen the avatar because I love the music of Marco Masini, the songs 'Vaffanculo e Bella Stronza' mean something to me. Marco is a very talented musician with powerful lyrics and beautiful rock music.

2: The 'ghosting' of foul/vulgar language it determined by the administrators by simply adding the swear word to a database.

Italy has a lot of very good musical talent.

Listen to:
[rap e hip hop]
99Posse/Bisca, Colle der Fomento e Dj Gruff.
[electronica]
Subsonica
[rock]
Marco Masini e Daniele Silvestri [love]
[comedy]
Gem Boy 'F.I.G.A'

Ascolta Radio Deejay e Guarda TV @ http://www.deejay.it

Skippy

[zeeb100]

I you can help but you can help saying me where can find Vectorballs Editor by Data Becker?
In 1991 it represented fundamental instrument for the realization of
demo with RSI Demo Maker.......

[DoomMaster]

To bloodline:

You are right about that, the vintage Amiga software must be saved!     :-D

[DoomMaster]

To Lo:

Try running Gods using Kickstart / Workbench 1.3 and if the sprites still do not display properly, then use a Rev 4.x motherboard.  Many of the vintage Amiga games do not like the ECS Chip Set.  They prefer the OCS Chip Set.     :-P

[DoomMaster]

Hey everybody:

After checking my files I have discovered that I am wrong about the dates I posted on the whole Gods issue.  Just add about 1 1/2 years to those dates I listed (excluding the SNES dates, they are correct).  Then the text will be correct.     :-D

[Dr_Righteous]

Personally, I think any software no longer available via commercial means is abandonware, thus free of copyright. If I can't buy it from a retailer, how else am I supposed to get it? It's like a ship with no crew in international waters.

Now say I have purchased this software, and the disks go bad... With no manufacturer to contact for a replacement, and no one bothers archiving it... It's gone forever!

Software archiving saves our platform and community. It's preservation, not piracy.

[Cyberus]

Despite 'locking horns' with Skippy over a lil' misunderstanding at the beginning of the thread....and biting my tongue to avoid a battle of the egos  ;-) , I think it is a really good idea.

One aspect that perhaps people haven't mentioned, is even if you do have working copies of software...the amount of space it all takes up! I'll be glad to get shot of all these disk boxes, that's for sure!

What can I do to help, Skippy?

edit: Doh! Reading your original post would be a good start!

[Skippy]

@zeeb100,

I haven't got the 'Vectorballs Editor by Data Becker'. I did a google.com and aminet search and came up with nothing but manuals and reviews.

@Cyberus,
'Battle of the egos', I think we had a misunderstanding, sorry if I came across as patronising.

'What can I do to help?', get archiving those disks and upload them to AR!

As Dr_Righteous mentioned, it is a good idea, there are lots of people out there seeking replacements for lost or damaged disks even myself. Disks don't last forever, which was the reason I started archiving mine when I discovered my originals had developed faults.

I recieve lots of requests from Amiga Users who are
trying to find replacements.

I made a back up of this coverdisk archive at nthdimension.emuunlim.com because it hadn't been updated for so long. Seemed a waste for so much work to disappear and website do.

http://www.amigarealm.com/archives/welcome.htm
is another project of mine to preserve internet websites.

If you think you can help visit:
http://www.amigarealm.com/softarch.htm

Cheers,

Skippy

[DonnyEMU]

Okay I have been to your website, and it's really a cool project but just where is all this software going to? Does it get made available to people who are looking for it..


How does it work, the info is still not clear to me. Let's say I want to get a replacement for my Pro Page 4.0 disks would you have it?

[whabang]

Bugger! I threw away a lot of disks after I sold my miggies. (please don't hurt me!)

[aardvark]

Would it help to rewrite the magnetic disks, thus renewing the (ummm, I dunknow) magnetic flux of the original disk?  If so would I risk screwing it up because of some copy protection scheme.  I screwed up my Maxiplan master disk trying to change the icons on it to the 2.0 dos colour scheme.

I'm now leery of CD-Rs after seeing that some degrade after as little as 2 years.