Let's develop an open-source media archive standard

----- Original Message ----- From: "John Foust" <jfoust(a)threedee.com> To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 12:10 AM Subject: Re: Let's develop an open-source media archive standard platform all I went from a C64 to a 286/12 PC in the late 80's. In the last 2 years I have acquired 3 Amigas (A500, A1200,A2000), they are interesting systems. Backing up discs or programs that have been 'cracked' leads to problems when you try to run update patches to old programs or when the 'cracker' did a bad job on the program and it doesn't work like it should. I never seen a crowd into preserving their machines like the Amiga crowd. Examples: The Largest Amiga hardware reference on the net: http://www.amiga-hardware.com/ Amiga Hall of Light, database of Amiga games showing box scans and in game screens (very well done): http://hol.abime.net/ CAPS Preserving the original media: http://www.caps-project.org/ Aminet, the largest internet based collection of freeware/shareware/GPL Amiga software http://ftp.uni-bremen.de/aminet/ WinUAE emulator for Amiga systems: http://www.winuae.net/ WHD Load where people got together and reworked the older software so that it ran on newer hardware, fixed bugs from the original programs, and allowed the program to run from the HD (instead of flipping floppies as needed): http://www.whdload.de/ Plus don't forget the active forums and other websites supporting a platform where the manufacturer died 10 years ago. If I want to add something to my collection the original media, manuals, box, and working disks are what I look for, a perfect image will keep me happy until I run into the original (or have the money to buy it if its is rare). Since your going to the trouble of preserving something you might as well preserve it exactly as it was released.