Bitworld

BitWorld is a large database of scene demos for the Amiga that includes screenshots, credit information, and download links as well as a lot of other data. They offer a web interface at http://bitworld.bitfellas.org, and the file collection is downloadable from ftp://www.amigascne.org.

History
The information started as a detailed list of demos created and maintained by Zeg. In the late 1990's ExoticA was contacted, and hosted the information as a downloadable text file. Many years later Andreas G. Szabo converted the textfile into flat database table, and a web interface was built around it. The amount of information handled grew, and more people contributed to the project.

Despite being converted to a database, the information remains largely non-relational, and as such methods to navigate and browse the data are limited. We now provide an alternative search interface on ExoticA that is based on a reworked snapshot of the Bitworld data, that is updated daily. It what we consider the most important of the information, and we link to Bitworld for the rest.

Web Interface and Instructions for use
You can find the interface at the Special:DemoDB page.

Browsing
Use the A-Z links for demo title, group, author, party or browse by year. After choosing the starting letter, you can filter the results down further by adding additional letters.

Searching
The quick search box works as the other search boxes, but matches against title, author, group, and party fields. You can also search by md5 checksum by pasting the 32 character hex representation. this is useful if you have a module which you want to identify, or check if it is already part of the modland collection.