Subject: Re: Disk images sites (other than Asimov)Path: lobby!newstf02.news.aol.com!portc04.blue.aol.com!newsfeed.mathworks.com!cyclone.swbell.net!typhoon01.swbell.net.POSTED!not-for-mail
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"Gˇrard Imbert" writes ...
> 
> What sites are there with disk images, other than the huge Asimov archive ?
> I'm looking for some games I cannot find over there, and all my searches for
> alternate sites have ended in pages with not very much disks (at least
> compared the Asimov ftp).  Someone knows where another good ftp site can be
> located ?


     When it comes to old commercial 8-bit titles in disk image form Asimov
offers by far the best collection. You can't quite say "If it isn't on Asimov,
it isn't"; but, if you did, you would almost always be right.

     One part of Asimov which sometimes gets overlooked is the File Based area
at ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/images/games/file_based/ .

     The file_based/ folder features disk images which have several games each.
Many games are here which are not available on separate single-game disk images.
If you are viewing the page under Netscape, you can click "Edit" and do a "Find
in page" search for all or part of the game title you're looking for.


     For other sites which might have what you want, see the listings in the
Csa2GAMES.txt folder at one of the following:


Ground offers pure Text for downloading or Viewing via
  an FTP program ...
  ftp://ground.ecn.uiowa.edu/apple2/Faqs/

 
Text on the ACN Florida, ACN Tarnover, and USA2WUG sites is
 line-length formatted for on-line perusing via Netscape, etc. ...
 
 ftp://24.96.48.134:6502/Cabi_Archives/FAQs.and.INFO/A2.Csa2.FAQs/
 ftp://tarnover.dyndns.org/cabi/FAQs.and.INFO/A2.Csa2.FAQs/
 http://www.grin.net/~cturley/A2.FAQs.and.INFO/CSA2.FAQs/


Or, for an html listing see ...
 http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/A2FAQs7GAMESITES.html

Rubywand