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


     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.



> 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.



> 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?



Rubywand