2010-07-25

The file archive has been update after a long pause, and can once again be accessed through the download link. This time the update is rather small, but there is plenty of more to come! Things have been a bit slow for me in the past months, me being busy with our upcoming move to Berlin and all. Things will pick up soon, and I even have a brand new shiny PC to work on. So keep watching this space.. Last but not least, Happy 25th Amiga :)

2010-03-22

The public snapshot of my files has been updated. 348 new releases, along with plenty of modified and fixed ones, await you behind the download link. Be sure to also browse through the readme file for detailed update info. Enjoy! Interested in hosting a mirror for the files, preferrably on a server outside Finland? Drop me a mail. The slowly growing collection currently takes up under 5 gigs of space, and is updated approximately once every 1.5-2 months at the moment. Lately I have received a ton of positive feedback from strangers who have enjoyed the collection. Thanks a bunch for the encouragement! Looking forward to delight you with more stuff and db features in the future.

2010-03-06

You might have noticed a few changes here in the WWW frontend. You're right, as I just finished the most major update to this pile of PHP crap in years. There are many improvements and new features, most of which are probably really buggy and require fixing in the near future. See history.txt for a more detailed description of what has been updated around here. Many features did not make it to this "release", so more will follow in the coming months. However, adding new stuff to the collection is #1 priority, and at the moment I am flooding in new old wares. So don't expect miracles soon. Bug reports and comments on the improved design's usability are warmly welcomed, and will either be acted upon or disregarded based on what mood I'm in. :)

2010-02-09
Another update done to the file snapshot, with 425 more releases! Much more to come in the near future... The FAQ section has also been updated to answer some actual questions I've encountered lately.

2009-12-29
An end-of-the-year update has been made to the files. So click on the Download link up there and have fun. Happy 2010 everybody, craploads of more new old stuff is yet to come.

2009-10-27
At last, newly updated version of the files is available. Just click the download link! Not too much new stuff this time around, as I was extremely busy during the summer and have been travelling on work all autumn. Now things are picking up again, perhaps I can update the package with a huge load of nice and clean prods by Christmas?

2009-04-03

Since a recent backup of my collection has been available online for some time, there's no reason not to put a download link up there.. So enjoy! But please, read the accompanying readme file before assuming or asking anything. The backup will be updated with a recent copy every now and then, usually when there are enough new and updated releases warranting a new version. There's still one problem with the current backup at the time of writing (2009-01-25): after unpacking the archive, all the disk images are extracted unto ADF -files, potentially wasting precious disk space. In the next version they'll be individually zipped for your convenience, so stay tuned.. :)

2008-12-09

I'm now in the process of making some of the long, long awaited changes to these pages. Some of it is invisible backend stuff, but other updates have some major positive effects on the system's usability. Features may be broken/missing during the coming weeks, so don't be alarmed. It's time to do something about this stagnant system with its poor features like the abysmal search. What was I thinking back then? New stuff keeps coming in of course. It never ends! Thanks to Richard for the tons and tons of great demos.. As he asked me to tell you, I ♥ amigascne.org! :) About that special feature I mentioned in the previous post: it's still coming. At some point.

2008-07-14

Guess what, I'm back. Well, sort of. I'll probably never be as active as I used to be, but as I've graduated from the university theres much less pressure for things other than my hobbies. So I'll be adding new stuff into the collection every now and then. Yay! After starting this whole archiving thing again, I've noticed that both the web frontend and backend for the database are a total mess. A complete rewrite will take some designing and time, but at least some changes (better search, etc) are coming in the very near future. I'm also planning to implement a certain feature which has been requested a lot during the years, but more of that later..

2005-06-05

Although I've been lazy to update this news page for the last YEAR or so, my work on the collection is far from finished. I finally got past the 10000 release mark, and new items keep coming in as do the features. Remember to check out the history.txt every now and then even if there's nothing new on this subpage. While the products remain the main reason for upholding this database, I've slowly warmed up to the idea of adding more information and metadata as well. After all, it's not just the products themselves that need to be saved from extinction. Credits were implemented just now for 2.0.6, but don't except a huge avalanche of data to be inserted just yet. Designs exist for all sorts of info archiving, but thanks to work, studying and other activities my time is tragically limited. Nevertheless, it will all come together piece by piece.. Finally, thanks to everybody who has helped me in locating missing productions, adding/correcting info and so on. I've gotten scolded from mentioning people's names before, so "you know who you are"!

2004-06-30

I surprised even myself with a manic webmonkeying crunch, and as the result v2.0.0 of the public Amiga WWW thingy is now online! For a full (?) list of changes check out the history.txt. I'm pretty sure there are some 1911 new bugs lurking about, feel free to send your reports. Anyone know what happened to a certain Norwegian fellow called Geir H.? Either he has disappeared from the face of the earth, or something is blocking my emails to him. If you're reading this, please contact me as soon as you can. Over 9000 products in my "collection" at the moment. Can I break 10000 before the end of the year? Old News removed at least for now. Don't worry, they still exist somewhere in space and time.