Hey folks, anyone else seeing Aminet currently down?
is this a regular occurrence? impending amiga-related doom?
HELP! *RUNS AROUND PANICKING*
Ok to go on a tangent, are Fred Fish disks really anything useful? I have a CD with about 800 of the disks contents on it and am wondering if anything on them is particularly useful and worth a look?intric8 wrote:Indeed. I have a feeling it has been copied a few times over but who knows where. Hell, I learned recently that even Fred Fish was friends with the Aminet guys and sold Aminet CD-ROMs in the 90s. Obviously, the files there are growing still...
But yeah, it's true, Shot. ISPs like mine only let you pre-pay 2 years in advance. I feel like a long time ago they would let you pay for a 10-year plan. Not anymore. It does take constant care.
People always used to say "screw paper, digital is forever!" I beg to differ. I still have magazines from the 1980s, and they look great. There are no digital versions of them out there. Other than the wayback machine or archive.org... and those don't support downloads. They just scrape front-end HTML and some images.
I actually found the site below which gives a list of i think all the disks contents, holy crap are you right when you say its valuable! already making a list of the ones I want to get from the cDShot97 wrote:Depends on what kind of system you have. If it's of the original variety (1000, 500, 2000) then it's one of the most valuable resources you'll ever have, if you're into power using. There are utilities there that will match the 1200's Aminet arsenal any day of the week. 8 color Magic Workbench's in 1.3, etc, tools to reboot your machine into NTSC/PAL modes, memory savors, disk repair tools, you name it... If you have an idea for what you're looking for and search the contents of the disk, then you can find that disk and you'll have a lot of power at your hands... And most of it has never been uploaded to Aminet (individual programs, the disks themselves are there). A thousand disks of freeware/shareware. I mean some of it is for later Amiga's, but by that point I'm sure a lot of it was going up on Aminet. So if you have a newer Amiga, probably not much use there, older Amiga, hell of a lot.
Cool. Is that CD archived someplace? I hope.Ok to go on a tangent, are Fred Fish disks really anything useful? I have a CD with about 800 of the disks contents on it and am wondering if anything on them is particularly useful and worth a look?
Take care there. My dad was an exceptional amatuer photographer in the late 1970s. He had some sets of photos published in two different magazines back then.Part of the reason why I'm still a 35mm photography guy, all the way.
I've still been working on the Fred Fish archive project in the background. I brought in one of the best engineers I know to try and assist (we're going to do a work/barter swap). I'm going to share some of that work here this week and get all of your personal opinions and feedback on if I should still do this and/or how to improve my concepts. I have discovered that every single individual program from the disks have been uploaded to Aminet individually, in addition to the entire disks. We searched for some of the filenames mentioned in each disk's descriptions (without extensions) and were able to find them on Aminet. That surprised me. You have to know exactly what you're looking for - this is Aminet's biggest failing from a Search perspective. They don't scrape the program descriptions. You literally have to know the program/file names. If you know exactly what you're looking for, though, it's great. If you want to "discover" something, you need to do that elsewhere. That's the key piece of this I think we might be able to vastly improve over here, and expose a ton of software to people that didn't even know it existed. Searching an 800-paged text file is one way, but I do think we could improve on that.And most of it has never been uploaded to Aminet (individual programs, the disks themselves are there).