Whoa!

Twistin'Ghost · 08 July 2002, 08:48

OMG! Check out this guy's collection!

http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...tem=2037571491

jmmijo · 08 July 2002, 09:09

Well I can think of a few expletives that might come close to describing this collection but man, this is one very large skyscraper of a disk collection

Paul · 08 July 2002, 09:16

How many disks? :eek

turk182 · 08 July 2002, 11:43

wow! ,I bet there are a few rare/working titles in there somewhere!

RetroMan · 08 July 2002, 13:31

I wonder how he manages to get the first disk from the floor for using it

:laugh

08 July 2002, 14:00

Or the one at the top

fiath · 08 July 2002, 15:22

I easily have 1000 disks (of original games too!) and they are kept in 6 large shoe boxes (each with about 3 columns x 70 disks) - much less than this guy.

The auction is 7900 disks - he is selling them all off in 100 disk "surprise" packs (hence the quanity of 79).

whiteb · 14 July 2002, 04:32

Holy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :eek :eek :eek :eek :eek :eek :eek

whiteb · 14 July 2002, 04:33

Quote:

Originally posted by fiath
I easily have 1000 disks (of original games too!) and they are kept in 6 large shoe boxes (each with about 3 columns x 70 disks) - much less than this guy.

The auction is 7900 disks - he is selling them all off in 100 disk "surprise" packs (hence the quanity of 79).

I am glad you can speak german, I thought to myself "there is more than 100 disks in that pile.

Djay · 14 July 2002, 04:50

this guy must be an old-skool sceners/trader or even cracker?!?!

how did ever remember where he put Turrican 2!

@Burseg - like you new avatar

Dastardly · 14 July 2002, 11:49

Now that is impressive!

I thought I had quite a few but my collection is feeble compared to that

CPC464 · 14 July 2002, 13:09

Woah !!!!:hoo

How many of us would like to get our hands on that Collection ??

dirkies · 01 August 2002, 04:27

so what, I have over 30,000+ disks, collected by myself (I knew quite some traders who were 10 times worse than me

) and other friends (BEL/UK/US). Even fantastic Boiler Room archives (from several old A3010 tapes (got a tapedrive as an extra!), some didn't work tho')!

took me months to put 'em all on THIRTY ONE CD-Rs, but now I got a fat file full of Ami warez, 1986-1997, after that I lost interest in it and stopped collecting.

I also was disgusted to lose about 35MB of compressed nostalgic oldskool stuff, I erased the files becoz I thought I already burnt them... BIG mistake

And I still was just too late to get a collection of over 8,000 5 1/4 disks for only $100, the guy sold it instead to some C64 guys who just wanted the disks to put C64 stuff on it, erasing all Ami data

In that collection there was even more old stuff...

well, it were nice days having games with a crackdate which was the same day

DPainter · 01 August 2002, 20:29

Quote:

Originally posted by dirkies
so what, I have over 30,000+ disks, collected by myself (I knew quite some traders who were 10 times worse than me ) and other friends (BEL/UK/US).

Surely you've made detailed lists of your Amiga disks so we can all saveur them and discover MIA titles?!!? Upload please!

dirkies · 01 August 2002, 23:47

all listings taken off cds and rar'ed together
(RAR archive 1.898.303 bytes)

it's a bit chaotic but just do a find for the games you're looking for ;-))

contents of archive:

Amiga Games (3 CDs incl CD32, 90s, was sold for $$$ by hackers)

AMICOMPIL_DOC.TXT 78 KB
AMICOMPIL_GAMES.TXT 101 KB
AMICOMPIL_HD.TXT 9 KB

The Boiler Room (US top-BBS in 80s, 3CDs=9 tapes, oldskool)

BOILERROOM.txt 504 KB

Boondocks (15 CDs, NL top-BBS, Oct1994-March1997)

BOONDOX.TXT 7414 KB

my own Amiga Warez (8 CDs=9055 disks, oldskool and early 90s)

DIRKIES.TXT 434 KB

yet some more 1996/7 stuff

SOMEMORE.TXT 158 KB

All those disks I lost, WHO HAS SOME OF THESE, ALWAYS WELCOME!

DIRKIES_lost.txt 10 KB

Also some huge HD games like Octamed, OnEscapee, Foundation, Genetic Species, TFX, Quake, Uropa2 & Herogalaxy 3D (?) Napalm
(but I never tested them, probably they don't work on 4ooo/o6o/PIV machines!)

archives are in one of these compressed: DMS/LHA/LZX/DSQ

>ADF archives off the net (2 CDs)
>not included here, because those you all have I guess...

SO WHERE SHALL I PUT THIS RAR ARCHIVE???

DPainter · 02 August 2002, 01:06

Quote:

Originally posted by dirkies
SO WHERE SHALL I PUT THIS RAR ARCHIVE???

Can you upload to the Zone? If not, I'm sure Twistin' can find a way to let you. We're all anxious to scan through the stuff. I just hope you're as anxious to fill requests.

Akira · 02 August 2002, 03:14

Quote:

Originally posted by dirkies
Also some huge HD games like Octamed

Game?

We'd like to check out your list of course! I bet a lot of MIAs are in there

Twistin'Ghost · 02 August 2002, 06:14

Quote:

Originally posted by dirkies
so what, I have over 30,000+ disks, collected by myself (I knew quite some traders who were 10 times worse than me ) and other friends (BEL/UK/US). Even fantastic Boiler Room archives (from several old A3010 tapes (got a tapedrive as an extra!), some didn't work tho')!

OK, you have my attention!

By The Boiler Room, do you mean The Boiler Room BBS from NYC (sysop: Freddy Kruger) from the old days (early to mid 90's, GOD USWHQ)? I have a handful of dats from there as well that I am waiting to dump. If we are talking the same BBS, I'd be interested in knowing what you have of that collection. Especially if you have their old stuff, like this title on my MIA list from their collection:

Filelist from The Boiler Room BBS, conference Amiga Wares!.
Compiled 00:25:40 12-07-93 by ListSpeeder v1.2.

Amiga Wares!, directory 1

The Boiler Room ELITE LISTING of OFFLINE Titles 1988-1992

JUDOA.WRP N 548080 04-29-89 Judo Atemi - Great Graphics/Sound

Among others. Looking forward to seeing your lists!

Fred the Fop · 02 August 2002, 06:19

I e-mailed the guy to ADF his collection and upload them to the zone. I wanted to warn you, RCK

Burge · 02 August 2002, 07:03

Mine laven!

jmmijo · 02 August 2002, 08:38

Yes I'm interested in this list as well

dirkies · 02 August 2002, 16:36

since most old files are warped (WRP), I hope no-one will ask me to convert 20.000+ archives into ADF!

and doesn't the PCami emulators can unpack a native format INSIDE the emu to an adf format???

BTW TwistinGhost, I have the CD here in my CD drive with that
(on first CD of 3 I have made)

JUDOA.WRP N 548080 04-29-89 Judo Atemi - Great Graphics/Sound

so what do you want me to do now???

Can I just forward you the WRP archive (if you got a REAL Ami it's unpacked in seconds)

Those DATs you have a worth a fortune for oldskoolers like me!

2 tapes (out of 11) I received from a buddy from the US were unreadable, sure there's some more stuff on I wanted purely for nostalgic reasons!

some dude should give me an FTP upload address so that the MIA vultures can attack it

Fissuras · 02 August 2002, 19:23

I am sure there are a lot of friends from here and from Emu-UK (Total-Amiga) with FTPs ready to get some uploads!!! Guys, where are you?

jmmijo · 02 August 2002, 19:36

I'd accept the .WRP files instead of ADF as I don't mind doing the conversion myself

Right here, I just sent dirkies a PM with my server's logon info

Akira · 02 August 2002, 21:28

Quote:

Originally posted by dirkies
and doesn't the PCami emulators can unpack a native format INSIDE the emu to an adf format???

Warp files cant be unpacked inside emus because of the floppy disk emulation not behaving like it should for such a task. Or something like that.

So warp files are for us Amiga powered freaks

Upload at will!

jmmijo · 02 August 2002, 23:15

Please find dirkies list in the zone now

Have fun reviewing it

DPainter · 02 August 2002, 23:39

Quote:

Originally posted by jmmijo
Please find dirkies list in the zone now

I already see a couple MIA titles in there that will make Twistin' have to take his heart medication while he does the monkey dance. :happy

Speaking of which, still no sign of Monkey Business by Other Valley Software, the first game reviewed by Amiga World in 1986.

jmmijo · 02 August 2002, 23:56

You know I can't even remember that title

perhaps old age has really started to affect my memory now

KombatSanta · 03 August 2002, 02:20

Quote:

Originally posted by jmmijo
I'd accept the .WRP files instead of ADF as I don't mind doing the conversion myself

Right here, I just sent dirkies a PM with my server's logon info

Ah, and when you're done converting, upload them onto my server...no? hmpf ok!

jmmijo · 03 August 2002, 02:28

Quote:

Originally posted by KombatSanta

Ah, and when you're done converting, upload them onto my server...no? hmpf ok!

Nope, you can't have them, bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

04 August 2002, 02:52

Upload it to: ftp://thrill.myip.org:1121
l:upload, p:upload

For downloading (and distributing), contact me thru a private message.

Twistin'Ghost · 04 August 2002, 14:17

Well, I think the collection would make more sense to be posted to one of the FTP's of EAB regulars like Ian, Big Byte, etc. Especially considering that in these places, they are sure to make it to the TOSEC team.

04 August 2002, 14:23

Yes indeed. I only posted it because I was asked about it by warlock71 after I offered my ftp-server. But don't feel obliged, saves me trouble too

Akira · 04 August 2002, 15:15

Quote:

Originally posted by Twistin'Ghost
Well, I think the collection would make more sense to be posted to one of the FTP's of EAB regulars like Ian, Big Byte, etc. Especially considering that in these places, they are sure to make it to the TOSEC team.

I completely agree!

DPainter · 07 August 2002, 18:27

Apparently dirkies has the following titles on his CDs that I think are still on Twistin's MIA list:

The Boiler Room

Beyond Dark Castle
Blasteris
Emerald Mine 3 Pro

Boondox

Lasermania 2
Marathon
Tyran
Ultimate Tennis Tour

Akira · 07 August 2002, 21:41

Quote:

Originally posted by Kodoichi

OMFG!!!1 SI TEH TORAK!!!1
G0G0G0!!!1

?!

Dpainter, how about discussing about dirkies' list in the MIA post? this is a most strange place for it to be

andreas · 17 May 2004, 19:24

*wipes piles and piles of dust off that thread*

WOW! This is a cool thread - and I've never noticed it before!
Just stumbled on this one by searching whether Judo Atemi recently requested by Beawolf hadn't been requested before (which I assumed).

Quote:

Originally Posted by DPainter

Apparently dirkies has the following titles on his CDs that I think are still on Twistin's MIA list:

...
Beyond Dark Castle

WOOOW!

BDC 3-disk version without needing WHDload - that would even interest ME!

Has at least a part of this great collection ever been upped to an FTP yet or was this just building castles in the air up to now?

DPainter · 17 May 2004, 21:22

I did get dirkies CDs but the BDC disks are in some nibble .WRP format that do not convert to ADF -- in other words, just like the originals. Blasteris I uploaded ages ago.

Speaking of fish that got away, a couple of years ago I made contact with a guy in the U.S. who had approximately 8,000 Amiga floppies. His list contained all sorts of rarities - Monkey Business, Puppy Love, etc. He lived about 500 miles from me and we planned to drive out and meet, and he'd lend me the disks if I would dump them to CD. But one day he stopped replying and hasn't responded since. By now there's probably only 15 or so disks among his collection that contain something that nobody else seems to have, and who knows how many of those are corrupted.

18 May 2004, 11:48

anyone in london that fancies exploring 6 disk boxes full of scene demos/ plus a good selection of original boxed games plus an amiga, hd, second dd, and ram pack.. they are still available for a lil favour.. (pm if interested)

Capitaine · 19 August 2007, 17:55

Anybody is into BBS archives ?
I'm looking for the Boondocks CDS.

I got some monthly BBS dumps too, if swaps required.

08 July 2002, 08:48	#1
Twistin'Ghost Give up the ghost Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: U$A Age: 22 Posts: 4,662	Whoa! OMG! Check out this guy's collection! http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...tem=2037571491

08 July 2002, 13:31	#5
RetroMan Registered User Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Germany Age: 40 Posts: 3,704	I wonder how he manages to get the first disk from the floor for using it :laugh __________________ --~~= RetroMan =~~-- -= AmigA =- -= ForeveR =-

08 July 2002, 15:22	#7
fiath Moderator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: South East / UK Age: 35 Posts: 1,925	I easily have 1000 disks (of original games too!) and they are kept in 6 large shoe boxes (each with about 3 columns x 70 disks) - much less than this guy. The auction is 7900 disks - he is selling them all off in 100 disk "surprise" packs (hence the quanity of 79). __________________ S.P.S. - The Software Preservation Society http://www.softpres.org Last edited by fiath; 08 July 2002 at 15:39.

01 August 2002, 23:47	#15
dirkies Zone Friend Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Luxembourg Age: 40 Posts: 486	some explanation all listings taken off cds and rar'ed together (RAR archive 1.898.303 bytes) it's a bit chaotic but just do a find for the games you're looking for ;-)) contents of archive: Amiga Games (3 CDs incl CD32, 90s, was sold for $$$ by hackers) AMICOMPIL_DOC.TXT 78 KB AMICOMPIL_GAMES.TXT 101 KB AMICOMPIL_HD.TXT 9 KB The Boiler Room (US top-BBS in 80s, 3CDs=9 tapes, oldskool) BOILERROOM.txt 504 KB Boondocks (15 CDs, NL top-BBS, Oct1994-March1997) BOONDOX.TXT 7414 KB my own Amiga Warez (8 CDs=9055 disks, oldskool and early 90s) DIRKIES.TXT 434 KB yet some more 1996/7 stuff SOMEMORE.TXT 158 KB All those disks I lost, WHO HAS SOME OF THESE, ALWAYS WELCOME! DIRKIES_lost.txt 10 KB Also some huge HD games like Octamed, OnEscapee, Foundation, Genetic Species, TFX, Quake, Uropa2 & Herogalaxy 3D (?) Napalm (but I never tested them, probably they don't work on 4ooo/o6o/PIV machines!) archives are in one of these compressed: DMS/LHA/LZX/DSQ >ADF archives off the net (2 CDs) >not included here, because those you all have I guess... SO WHERE SHALL I PUT THIS RAR ARCHIVE???

02 August 2002, 07:03	#20
Burge Get ready, Agent Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Perth / Australia Age: 31 Posts: 148	Mine laven! __________________ "After pie."

08 July 2002, 09:09	#2
jmmijo Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: PDX Age: 51 Posts: 2,338	Well I can think of a few expletives that might come close to describing this collection but man, this is one very large skyscraper of a disk collection

08 July 2002, 09:16	#3
Paul RIP Friends Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: UK Posts: 2,157	How many disks? :eek

08 July 2002, 11:43	#4
turk182 Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: london Age: 39 Posts: 187	wow! ,I bet there are a few rare/working titles in there somewhere!

14 July 2002, 04:32	#8
whiteb Fanatically Amiga. Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Age: 43 Posts: 1,354	Holy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :eek :eek :eek :eek :eek :eek :eek

14 July 2002, 04:50	#10
Djay breakpointUK.com Join Date: May 2001 Location: Brighton, UK Age: 37 Posts: 3,063	this guy must be an old-skool sceners/trader or even cracker?!?! how did ever remember where he put Turrican 2! @Burseg - like you new avatar

14 July 2002, 11:49	#11
Dastardly Into the Wonderful Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Gods Country Age: 38 Posts: 2,009	Now that is impressive! I thought I had quite a few but my collection is feeble compared to that

14 July 2002, 13:09	#12
CPC464 Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: York Age: 43 Posts: 393	Woah !!!!:hoo How many of us would like to get our hands on that Collection ??

01 August 2002, 04:27	#13
dirkies Zone Friend Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Luxembourg Age: 40 Posts: 486	so what, I have over 30,000+ disks, collected by myself (I knew quite some traders who were 10 times worse than me ) and other friends (BEL/UK/US). Even fantastic Boiler Room archives (from several old A3010 tapes (got a tapedrive as an extra!), some didn't work tho')! took me months to put 'em all on THIRTY ONE CD-Rs, but now I got a fat file full of Ami warez, 1986-1997, after that I lost interest in it and stopped collecting. I also was disgusted to lose about 35MB of compressed nostalgic oldskool stuff, I erased the files becoz I thought I already burnt them... BIG mistake And I still was just too late to get a collection of over 8,000 5 1/4 disks for only $100, the guy sold it instead to some C64 guys who just wanted the disks to put C64 stuff on it, erasing all Ami data In that collection there was even more old stuff... well, it were nice days having games with a crackdate which was the same day

02 August 2002, 06:19	#19
Fred the Fop flaming faggot Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Versailles Age: 44 Posts: 2,794	I e-mailed the guy to ADF his collection and upload them to the zone. I wanted to warn you, RCK

02 August 2002, 08:38	#21
jmmijo Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: PDX Age: 51 Posts: 2,338	Yes I'm interested in this list as well

02 August 2002, 16:36	#22
dirkies Zone Friend Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Luxembourg Age: 40 Posts: 486	since most old files are warped (WRP), I hope no-one will ask me to convert 20.000+ archives into ADF! and doesn't the PCami emulators can unpack a native format INSIDE the emu to an adf format??? BTW TwistinGhost, I have the CD here in my CD drive with that (on first CD of 3 I have made) JUDOA.WRP N 548080 04-29-89 Judo Atemi - Great Graphics/Sound so what do you want me to do now??? Can I just forward you the WRP archive (if you got a REAL Ami it's unpacked in seconds) Those DATs you have a worth a fortune for oldskoolers like me! 2 tapes (out of 11) I received from a buddy from the US were unreadable, sure there's some more stuff on I wanted purely for nostalgic reasons! some dude should give me an FTP upload address so that the MIA vultures can attack it

02 August 2002, 19:23	#23
Fissuras Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Brazil Age: 43 Posts: 537	I am sure there are a lot of friends from here and from Emu-UK (Total-Amiga) with FTPs ready to get some uploads!!! Guys, where are you?

02 August 2002, 19:36	#24
jmmijo Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: PDX Age: 51 Posts: 2,338	I'd accept the .WRP files instead of ADF as I don't mind doing the conversion myself Right here, I just sent dirkies a PM with my server's logon info

02 August 2002, 23:15	#26
jmmijo Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: PDX Age: 51 Posts: 2,338	Please find dirkies list in the zone now Have fun reviewing it

02 August 2002, 23:56	#28
jmmijo Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: PDX Age: 51 Posts: 2,338	You know I can't even remember that title perhaps old age has really started to affect my memory now

04 August 2002, 02:52	#31
Torak Posts: n/a	upload Upload it to: ftp://thrill.myip.org:1121 l:upload, p:upload For downloading (and distributing), contact me thru a private message.

04 August 2002, 14:17	#32
Twistin'Ghost Give up the ghost Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: U$A Age: 22 Posts: 4,662	Well, I think the collection would make more sense to be posted to one of the FTP's of EAB regulars like Ian, Big Byte, etc. Especially considering that in these places, they are sure to make it to the TOSEC team.

04 August 2002, 14:23	#33
Torak Posts: n/a	hrm Yes indeed. I only posted it because I was asked about it by warlock71 after I offered my ftp-server. But don't feel obliged, saves me trouble too

07 August 2002, 18:27	#35
DPainter Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: California Posts: 339	MIA vulturing... Apparently dirkies has the following titles on his CDs that I think are still on Twistin's MIA list: The Boiler Room Beyond Dark Castle Blasteris Emerald Mine 3 Pro Boondox Lasermania 2 Marathon Tyran Ultimate Tennis Tour

17 May 2004, 21:22	#38
DPainter Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: California Posts: 339	I did get dirkies CDs but the BDC disks are in some nibble .WRP format that do not convert to ADF -- in other words, just like the originals. Blasteris I uploaded ages ago. Speaking of fish that got away, a couple of years ago I made contact with a guy in the U.S. who had approximately 8,000 Amiga floppies. His list contained all sorts of rarities - Monkey Business, Puppy Love, etc. He lived about 500 miles from me and we planned to drive out and meet, and he'd lend me the disks if I would dump them to CD. But one day he stopped replying and hasn't responded since. By now there's probably only 15 or so disks among his collection that contain something that nobody else seems to have, and who knows how many of those are corrupted.

18 May 2004, 11:48	#39
kotatsuneko Posts: n/a	anyone in london that fancies exploring 6 disk boxes full of scene demos/ plus a good selection of original boxed games plus an amiga, hd, second dd, and ram pack.. they are still available for a lil favour.. (pm if interested)

19 August 2007, 17:55	#40
Capitaine Registered User Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: France Posts: 22	Anybody is into BBS archives ? I'm looking for the Boondocks CDS. I got some monthly BBS dumps too, if swaps required.

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