Amiga.org looking for historical postings and announcements

System · 03-09-2004, 09:20 AM

In preparation of a new section of the Web site, we're now combing through old SQL backups, old file backups and about anything else we can find about the last few years. Our intention is to open a historical column where we'd post all these old critical announcements in one place for the purposes of researching the history of our community and what we've gone through.

We need your help.

We know that you're all packrats. We know that you have this old stuff squirreled away on your hard drive for a rainy day.

I'm not really talking about "History of the Amiga" type stuff which has been covered in abundance on other sites, but anything you might have sitting dormant on your hard drive which documents the announcements by everyone from Commodore to the Gateway era, all the way through Amiga Inc.

Things like the "Gateway has purchased Amiga" announcement, or the "OS4 will happen in 2001" announcements.

We would appreciate ANY help that you can offer in recreating that which was destroyed by hackers in the old versions of Amiga.org's history.

hnl_dk · 03-09-2004, 10:06 AM

Gateway 2000 acquires assets of
Amiga Technologies GmbH

System · 03-09-2004, 10:58 AM

Thanks! Great start!

_DXE_ · 03-09-2004, 12:04 PM

Ever tried The Internet Archive?

e.g. http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.amiga.com ;-)

chris · 03-09-2004, 12:10 PM

Well, the amiga.org archives would be a good start I guess.

I've got a load of old Amiga Format CDs here which I know have website mirrors on them, but I'm not sure exactly what is covered. I know some contain mp3s of Jim Collas' speeches. I almost certainly have some interesting stuff on back-ups of my A1200's hard drive (backups go back to 1998), but they are in a bit of disorganisation. I'd have to look through to see exactly what I've got.

I also have a load of Amiga Magazines. I've got the Amiga Computiong "auction special" which covers the auctioning off of Commodore's assets in excrutiating detail, but no way to scan it in unfortunately.

I'll post back when I've had a chance to see if I have anything that might interest you.

AmiDelf · 03-09-2004, 01:04 PM

I remember Amiga Web Directory. It was big and lots of Amiga people used it. It closed,.. thats sad.

Well.

For me, at World Of Amiga 1999 in London. Gateway was all the way the big hit. With Jim Collas at the trone.

I loved Jim Collas. Because he got the right Amiga look. He wanted this to happend, but did the right thing. Jumped off, when Geteway stopped their Amiga interest.

Amino and Amiga Inc must be the worst ever thing that happened to Amiga. Even Petro was better!

I like this idea!

Regards,
Michal, www.amigaworld.org

System · 03-09-2004, 01:33 PM

Jim Collas didn't "jump off" he was fired when he wanted more control over the Amiga situation than Gateway Ted was willing to allow.

**Matt_H** · 03-09-2004, 02:18 PM

Quote:

Jim Collas didn't "jump off" he was fired when he wanted more control over the Amiga situation than Gateway Ted was willing to allow.

I thought the Redmond Beast also factored in there, somewhere. Can't confirm it, though.

Back on topic, say what you will about CUCUG, they've got a spectacular news archive: Here

Ogy · 03-09-2004, 03:23 PM

Oh my god!!!!!!!

What a brilliant idea!!!

In fact I cant wait to read all the (£$£%£$% bleep) various owners of Amiga name had announced and promised....

GENIUS!!!

Extra reason to keep coming back to Amiga.org!!!

Many thanks!!!

iamaboringperson · 03-09-2004, 06:05 PM

How about page saves and old screenshots of the forums? :-D

csirac_ · 03-09-2004, 06:08 PM

Is it possible to organise the archives properly? I know the DB structure would have kept changing over the years so it probably isn't feasable to make it automatic, but:

Howsabout an "On this day in <random year>" news item somewhere on the main page?

E.G. as an example for today:
FLASHBACK: On this day of 10 March 1997, Amiga.org reported to the world:

Quote:

Amiga Ownership Update
QuikPak announces that their final bid for the Amiga has been submitted.

See the original page and article.

Seehund · 03-09-2004, 07:49 PM

Quote:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.amiga.com

Another archive site: http://www.leatherandheels.com/

SidMan · 03-10-2004, 08:24 AM

Lets face it, we've all been swimming around in darkness for the past 10 years. Do we really need reminding of these times (yet)?

Still I have some old images from various points in time over the last five years or so, maybe I'll fire up my old Amiga and see if I can dig them out.

Things that spring to mind:

AmiJoe
BoXer Systems
Phase 5 PPC delays

DanDude · 03-10-2004, 01:58 PM

Heheh, let's see what I have off of my website database...

**cecilia** · 03-10-2004, 08:09 PM

Quote:

Lets face it, we've all been swimming around in darkness for the past 10 years. Do we really need reminding of these times (yet)?

because maybe people will realize that we can't depend on a company...we have to depend on each other.
If you look at the history of Amiga one thing comes back again and again: everything we have is because someone took the trouble to make a piece of software or a clever piece of hardware and it worked [size=large]dispite[/size] all the idiots who had "control" over the various companys that have come and gone.

03-09-2004, 09:20 AM	#1
System Technoid Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 188	Amiga.org looking for historical postings and announcements In preparation of a new section of the Web site, we're now combing through old SQL backups, old file backups and about anything else we can find about the last few years. Our intention is to open a historical column where we'd post all these old critical announcements in one place for the purposes of researching the history of our community and what we've gone through. We need your help. We know that you're all packrats. We know that you have this old stuff squirreled away on your hard drive for a rainy day. I'm not really talking about "History of the Amiga" type stuff which has been covered in abundance on other sites, but anything you might have sitting dormant on your hard drive which documents the announcements by everyone from Commodore to the Gateway era, all the way through Amiga Inc. Things like the "Gateway has purchased Amiga" announcement, or the "OS4 will happen in 2001" announcements. We would appreciate ANY help that you can offer in recreating that which was destroyed by hackers in the old versions of Amiga.org's history.

03-09-2004, 10:58 AM	#3
System Technoid Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 188	Re: Amiga.org looking for historical postings and announceme Thanks! Great start!

03-09-2004, 01:33 PM	#7
System Technoid Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 188	Re: Amiga.org looking for historical postings and announceme Jim Collas didn't "jump off" he was fired when he wanted more control over the Amiga situation than Gateway Ted was willing to allow.

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