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The article doesn’t mention it, but the Fred Fish disks were also made available via FTP on the early internet at least by 1991. I don’t know if this was offici
by daggersandscars 3y ago
The article doesn’t mention it, but the Fred Fish disks were also made available via FTP on the early internet at least by 1991. I don’t know if this was official or unofficial.
Handily, there was a utility that let Amigas read MS-DOS-formatted double-density (720K) disks without special hardware.
Fond memories of going into campus computer labs and FTPing FF disks onto the lab PC and copying the files to disk. The process was error-prone. I’d take 10 disks in and end up with 7 - 9 my Amiga could read.
- tejtm 3y agoAminet! Recall it as the largest source of free software on the planet in its time. And it is still up! https://aminet.net/misc/fish https://aminet.net/misc/fish thanks for all the fish, truly formative experiences.
- mgk123 3y agoamiga.physik.unizh.ch, wasn't that an A3000UX at one point???
- acherion 3y agoFirst entry on their History page says it was: http://wiki.aminet.net/index.php/The_history_of_Aminet http://wiki.aminet.net/index.php/The_history_of_Aminet
- anthk 3y agoA fun thing it's that you can acces SSL sites with AmiSSL, and even Gemini clients (something like a device-independent Gopher with mandatory TLS) work.