Kestra Bitworld: From music to reference DB
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by Richard
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by Richard
ORIGIN
The beginning was in the year 1987, when i bought the first computer ever,
Amiga computer. (still using amiga programms, Morphos.)
And since, it was always nicer to archive crack intros from the games either
to collect the games itselfe.
In the year 1991, some friends of mine started to form our own mini demogroup,
named PseudoDOS. The author/programmer of the online databse is one of those
persons. And still fuzzeling around.
In the year 1995/1995 i met up Peter Kunath and Florian Vorberger, who created
the well known exotic-format amiga music player. Delitracker. So we bundled
our archives, demos and musics.
Back in 1994 i have found a textfile with a lot of demos, arranged by Mirco
Pauli, we also get in contact, and some disks were moved around, also in
1994, i have started to edit some textfile with all the releases which we
have already got. And since, it never stoped.
I met up a lot of amiga sceners, to can get more disks filled up with our
beloved material. People like Captain Bifat, Mnemotron, Nosferatu/Razor 1911,
Conan/Rebels, Atfm/Black Monks, Deature/Humanoid, Mr.Spiv/Cave, Amon, Vital,
Buzz, Zinko, Grendel/Byterapers....
The Tale
in 1996, the first contact with the internet, some more contacts came in.
Also with Buzz, we build up the well known exotic amiga music archive -
amigaexotica.
in 1997, cygnus started with his amigascne server. And we came up to setup
some ftp archive filled up with mostly all what we have already collected.
The main archive is still at cygnus's place, since. And never changed.
In 2004, another nice chap, known as Break, build up his own mini online
reference system, (Break is a good friend, we always gave all our archives to
each other.) http://www.arabuusimiehet.com/break/amiga/index.php?mode=upd
First ideas about some upcoming online reference database came up.
In 2008, Andreas tried to extract the text based edited scene releases listing
into some standard database system. Our first online database went online.
''Asle'' have had also some nice looking online reference system running, and
on some day, he jumped over as editor, and with his extreme hugh amiga mod
archive, known as amp, we got tonns of new infos and files.
During the years, our super ''alien'', known as Curt Cool, jumped into our
editors team. He is working like an "alien", unknown how he could do that.
Spending hours and hours into our own created amiga world. Incredible!
All that is hosted at Buzz's system, since 1997.
ehm, and so on, .
all the best and bye bye