Archiving old and rare Amiga Software

[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.

[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? '

It states on the website here that when the software is submitted it is virus checked then added to the appropriate section of my website.

'Does it get made available to people who are looking for it..'

Ofcourse. I am a little bit reserved about the commercial 'abandonedware' software at the moment with regards
to piracy, these files have been RARed and encrypted with a unique password.

Old commercial software has been archived as it is no longer available [retailers] or supported [developers]

IE: Deluxe Paint I, II, II, IV, V.

You're not gonna find Image FX etc, however, you will find a link to either an official website or a retail stockist for that product.

RE: 'would you have it?'

All depends on the amount of support from visitors, much like peer2peer sharing, the more people shared and contributed the more everyone benefits.

What is currently available in my software archive is everything I have on disks here and that's just one person [me] helping others. Imagine if everyone contributed a couple of files.

Again, I must stress I am only looking for the more vintage stuff, plus drivers even old manuals.

Skippy

[mycroft69]

Okay, let me step in where the angels fear to tread. Here in the good ol' US of A, in the little state of Vermont, I have a small collection of CU Amiga and Amiga Format coverdisks -- on CD!  They cover a period of 1997-98 and include demos and full functioning software, like DOpus 5.11. I'd like to make these resources available to Amiga users worldwide, free of charge, but I don't want to engage in piracy. However, I'm not a lawyer and really have no idea what is legal and what isn't in this case; so many of the former companies have either folded or have moved on to Mac or Blue-type. I tried a coverdisk website (http://amigacoverdisks.emuunlim.com/) but got no response to my E-mail.  If anyone has ideas or wants to work with me on this, let me know.

[DamienMcKenna]

If someone could point me to where I could get the game Enlightenment I'd be really happy  I loved that game when I had it on the C64, and the Amiga version looked even better.  I'm sure someone here has it in a shoebox in their attic?

Damien

[DonnyEMU]

Thanks for the info, I will have to explore your site more. I want to find a good way to move LEGAL copies of software I own (and I have a lot of it) to ADF format so I can use on an emulator so I can finally put some of the old amigas to rest..

Deluxe Paint V is pretty cool.. I had the author even send me the activation code I lost over time to make it work. I just wanna move my gold disk stuff (yep they aren't around anymore) and some other stuff over (like the very expensive superbase pro that I actually bought and have some old geneology stored on it)..

-Don

[Bobsonsirjonny]

One of the guys I work with is part of the CaPs project - (he sometimes comes on here under the name of SpecFreak.) if that helps. He's always buying old Disks and stuff off Ebay and preserving the data.

[Skippy]

@mycroft69,

That website has been inactive since FEB of this year hence my decision to rip it incase it went down.

@Bobsonsirjonny,
I do the same as the webmaster of CAPS, I go to carboots, jumble sales, charity shops etc hunting out old Amiga and Spectrum software.

The Spectrum stuff goes in the loft for storage, plus I contribute any missing disks to World of Spectrum and the Amiga stuff is virus checked then archived and uploaded to my site.

Skippy

[mycroft69]

Thanks for the clarification, skippy. Please forgive me for my slowness, but I'm not sure my offer was acknowledged. I have at least 30 CDs for 2 English mags and am offering the data free of charge to anyone who is archiving and making the data available for general downloads -- as long as this action on my part is legal. I understand that such extensive data may be a problem for uploading, but perhaps other arrangements could be worked out.

[Skippy]

@mycroft69,

Cool, I'd be more than happy to archive your CDs.

Contact me via email to sort out some arrangements.

PS: I'm from BRISTOL, UK and you're from BRISTOL, USA - wierd.

Thanks for your support dude.

Skippy

Be nice if a few more people would get off their arses and help instead of bitching about piracy.

My first post included software from the Public Domain and Shareware sectors.

[CU_AMiGA]

@DoomMaster,

DoomMaster! What happened to your military grade helmet?

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

 :shocked:  :shocked:  :shocked:

*FAINTS*

[Skippy]

Thanks for the support so far people, appreciated...

Received a lot of emails and uploads, many people have help me in my quest for old, rare and missing software.

Very pleased with the feedback and support so far.

Cheers and I must stress that all your efforts have made a big difference.

Thank you  :-)

Cheers,

Skippy

[Cyberus]

That really is a cool site Skippy, I haven't got round to going through my software yet, but I'll see what I can do to help

Keep up the good work!