Re: Where is Asimov?-- Asimov-GS

["Aaron R. Willis" <fenroth@home.com>]

Everytime I try and get a 2mg file from Helix, I get a deadlink.

Aaron

Rubywand wrote:
> 
> Krinibar writes ...
> >
> > Every time I try to get to the GS page I get a deadend link.  Where is it?
> 
>      At one time Asimov did maintain a collection of out-of-print commercial
> IIgs software. That was roughly 2-3 years ago.
> 
>      When the Asimov site manager decided to concentrate on out-of-print
> commercial software for 8-bit Apple II's, another site was created to maintain
> out-of-print commercial IIgs software. It came to be called "Asimov-GS".
> 
>      My recollection is that Asimov-GS lasted for a few months before being
> trashed by hackers. The successor to Asimov-GS was Apple Cabi.net-- also often
> called "Asimov-GS" but frequently "Cabi" and "ACN", too. "Apple Cabi.net" and
> "ACN" are the designations which eventually became popular.
> 
>      ACN was a creation of Dr. Tom. With out-of-print commercial and other IIgs
> software (plus graphics, info files, ...) obtained from the earlier "Asimov-GS"
> and collected from other sources, Dr. Tom built ACN into the chief IIgs
> archive. For a year or so, it was the only place users could find large
> collections of out-of-print commercial IIgs games and utilities.
> 
>      ACN closed down earlier this year in late Spring. Before it disappeared,
> most of it's contents were transferred to a new site, Tarnover, run by Celtic.
> Soon, Tarnover was joined by GS Ed's mirror of the old ACN site's content.
> 
>      Since ACN was gone, it did not make sense to speak of "ACN mirror sites".
> Also, the new sites were developing their own collections-- including a good
> deal of 8-bit A2 software-- beyond the original ACN content.
> 
>      To show that the sites maintain closely matched content built upon that
> from Apple Cabi.net and, yet, are different, they adopted the names "ACN
> Tarnover" and "ACN Florida":
> 
> ACN Tarnover- ftp://tarnover.dyndns.org/cabi/
> ACN Florida-  ftp://24.96.48.134:6502/Cabi_Archives/
> 
>      Widespread interest in IIgs emulation is a relatively recent phenomenon.
> So, Apple Cabi.net concentrated on serving users of IIgs machines; and, most of
> the ACN collection is in standard Apple II ShrinkIt files, not in some disk
> image format.
> 
>      For a time it was up to IIgs emu users to convert software as required for
> their particular IIgs emulators or depend upon relatively small collections.
> This changed with the arrival of Helix Energy's Apple IIgs Gaming Memory
> Fairway. 'Fairway includes nearly every out-of-print commercial IIgs game in
> .2mg disk image (and, now, .shk, too) form:
> 
> Apple IIgs Gaming Memory Fairway- http://www.inwards.com/~fairway/
> 
>      So, I guess you can say that the GS part of Asimov is 'all over the net'.
> 
> Rubywand