Re: ftp://mirror ...-- Revenge of Asimov

[GnomulA <gnomula@altavista.com>]

Rubywand wrote:

first of all sorry for re so late, but was on holiday from 2-14, just
came back

> 
> GnomulA writes ...
> >
> > AAh i hate to read this... The asimov absolutely ruled!!
>  ....
> 
>      A tad premature.
> 
>                 ~~ Asimov yet lives! ~~
> 
>      Thanks mainly to Tom Turley, Dave Morrison (doing most of the Asimov
> uploading), and Robtron (the site host),  the Asimov archive is being
> rebuilt. Check A2 World Trade Center at ...
> 
> ftp://24.67.10.168/apple2/ASIMOV.ARCHIVES/ .

cool, looked at it and yes, so a big thank you to the uploaders, up te
url to my site.

> 
>      Anyone with new .dsk files, .sdk files, .shk files (or any of these
> inside a .zip file) to upload should upload to ...
> 
> ftp://24.67.10.168/apple2/INCOMING/  .
> 
> > ftp://mirror.apple.asimov.net/images/games/
> > http://www.inwards.com/~fairway/ wow! nice indead
> > ftp://apple2.caltech.edu/pub/apple2/games/
> > ftp://ground.ecn.uiowa.edu/apple2/Collections/AOL/Games/
> > http://www.classicgaming.com/vault/
> > http://www.multimania.com/apple2c/archive/Archive.htm
> > ftp://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/apple2/games/
> >
> 
>      Except for missing A2 WTC, the above is a pretty good listing of sites
> with emu wares.
> 
>      Be sure to peruse the Major Sites listed in the FAQs at
> http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/A2FAQs4MAJORSITES.html and the Games sites
> listed at http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/A2FAQs7GAMESITES.html . References
> to "Emu" and "Emulator" materials are highlighted in yellow.

and so i will tomorrow.... or so.. thannk for noticing

> 
> > By the way, and please this is only pasing info, i know a lot of people
> > hate binaries ng's but i've been getting loads and i mean loads from:
> >
> > alt.binaries.emulators.misc
> >
>      Okay; except, it looks like practically everything is Atari and C-64.

true, but i did post all my apple II .dsk files (750 or so wich i
obtained from the games section of the mirror.asimov when it whas
alive.) I posted them in rar's in wich all the .dsk's where. 4 big rar's
each containg around 7 .rar .r00 etc up to r.07 in alphabetical way
(a-d) (d-k) etc... so when you dl'ed the 4 big rars and unrared them in
a dir you whould have around 750 apple II .dsk's

> 
> > Eventually with some help got to know how to up and download from there.
> > So i've been posting some nice emu' stuff
> >
> > And the freaky thing is that just two days ago i posted everything i got
> > from asimov.net (when that one was open). I downloaded only the games,
> > but every one of them. Conluding into 724 apple II .dsk's wich.... i
> > posted there and i checked, i can still dl. them from there. Note that
> > it depends very much which ng provider or something you have to get them
> > all. in other words, you might visit and nothing, or 30 or as i posted
> > them in two big rar's split in 10 split in 7 (r.o1 will have 7 headers
> > of 5000 lines)
> >
> > And again people who hate binary ng's, and i don't blame them, i hated
> > them for halve a year, please ignore all this. But as the asimov mirror
> > just went down and i just posted every apple II game .dsk i got from
> > there i could'nt resit passing y'all this info.
>  ....
> 
>      Thanks. Lots of postings, for sure. However, there do not seem to be any
> postings with "Apple" in the title. How would someone find the Apple stuff
> you posted? What kind of file is this stuff in-- like what PC utility would
> convert it to something recognizable as .dsk image files?
> 

I just figured that one out like 2 monts ago, the binary ng's drove me
crazy before, nice things but only like machine languige when i opened
them,,,,

but you've gotta use a program like 'free agent' to 'decode' de binary
files by just a right click on 1 of the 1/7 .rar files, saying 'decode
binary attachment' and off it goes... very easy (when you know how too
wich i didn't for a long time) get free agent here:

http://www.forteinc.com/getfa/download.htm

and a lot of other useful binary newsgroops stuff here

http://extra.newsguy.com/~thecrnr/win.htm

If afterwards anyone whould like to see a applle II posting on that
newsgroop just let me know and i will post all the .dsk's i have again
or just put an add on the ng itself asking for a flood of applle (wich i
saw somebody did a few days ago, but he got helped by someone claiming
to have loads of apple II stuff, but did not want the whole net to go
for his site.... (guess he could go to the mirror of asimov in
construction now as well......)

Greetings Gnomula

> Rubywand