What's the total size of Amiga software?

[freqmax]

As the amount of m68k software is somewhat limited. How many bytes of such software exist?

[bbond007]

As the amount of m68k software is somewhat limited. How many bytes of such software exist?

"The Aminet officially became the world's largest archive of software on the 16th May 1996. The library totalled over 30,000 files, 5052Mb of data."

It held that title for a number of years but for how long I have no idea. Also, now it contains x86 and PPC binaries so...

[kedawa]

There must be terabytes of m68k software.
It's used in thousands of different systems, from video game systems and home computers to embedded systems.
Many of the games are CD based, and all that multimedia fluff, which is still part of the software, takes up a massive amount of space.
If we're just talking Amiga software, then the CD32 library alone is well over the 5MB quoted.

[desiv]

If we're just talking Amiga software, then the CD32 library alone is well over the 5MB quoted.

He said 5052Mb, not 5M.

Heck, the IPF archive is over 3G, and that's not all Amiga 68k software.

desiv

[Tenacious]

I wonder if the other software libraries (Fred Fish, Elysian, etc) that used to be distributed on CD were absorbed into Aminet at the hieght of its popularity.

If Aminet decided to sell (to raise some cash) complete snapshots once a year of all of its files on several CDs, I would buy them.

[NovaCoder]

Don't forget that more is being developed, it's a moving target people

[freqmax]

Slow moving target

[slaapliedje]

I'm sure I couldn't find actual totals for everything, but between Sega Genesis, Amiga, Atari ST, and CD32, I was able to count up to about 400GB.

Mostly I looked up how much the TOSEC collections were and added them together.

That's most likely not counting much from Aminet, but I could be wrong.

This isn't including things like X68000 based systems, and I think the Turbo Grafx used a m68k didn't it?  I'm sure there are other platforms I'm forgetting.

slaapliedje

[partycentralpartygirl]

Slow moving target

It's like a George A Romero type slow moving zombie type target. Which equates pretty relevantly to the Amiga situation.

[freqmax]

Aminet reported 30 GB in 2006 for their collection (12 years after C= bancruptcy). But how much that is of the total amount of Amiga software is another question.

[kedawa]

He said 5052Mb, not 5M.

Heck, the IPF archive is over 3G, and that's not all Amiga 68k software.

desiv

Ah yes.  That's what happens when I'm too lazy to just rewrite a sentence instead of rearranging it.

[desiv]

Ah yes.  That's what happens when I'm too lazy to just rewrite a sentence instead of rearranging it.

That's OK, I just re-read my sentence and I typed it wrong..  ;-)
I said: Heck, the IPF archive is over 3G, and that's not all Amiga 68k software.

Well, the IPF archive IS all Amiga 68k software.  
I meant: Heck, the IPF archive is over 3G, and that's not all OF THE Amiga 68k software.

:-)

desiv

[bbond007]

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Mostly I looked up how much the TOSEC collections were and added them together.

I'm not sure about the CD32 TOSEC, but the only problem with adding the Amiga on to the total as 10GB(or whatever) is that it contains repeats and slight variations of the same thing... PAL/NTSC

[B00tDisk]

I'm not sure about the CD32 TOSEC, but the only problem with adding the Amiga on to the total as 10GB(or whatever) is that it contains repeats and slight variations of the same thing... PAL/NTSC

Yup.  This copy of such-and-such game with so-and-so cracktro...but another copy of the same game with a different cracktro...

Lots of dupes.