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Welcome to ExoticA
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Welcome to the new wiki based ExoticA site. You can find here amongst other things, Amiga and Commodore 64 game/demo music, game box artwork, detailed information on Amiga software, demo groups, and more.
As a wiki based site, you will be able to contribute and correct information, and help us catalogue all things Amiga. Actually, the site has been expanding to include other areas of interest too, such as a section on how arcade games and films translated to home computer platforms (See Lost In Translation), and we have been running a mirror of the High Voltage SID (C64 Music) Collection for some time.
If you have an idea for some new "non Amiga" content, please do suggest/discuss it on the forum. Otherwise, do have a browse and an edit. ExoticA uses the MediaWiki engine which is the software wikipedia: uses. If this is the first time you have used such a wiki system, please read the Help, and then register and get your hands dirty!
Note that we are still in the process of moving some stuff from the old site. Most of the content is here but there are a few areas which are not, or are not as complete as they should be. Most of the old site is still online however and can be accessed at http://old.exotica.org.uk.
News
2008-01-27
The new version of the site has gone live. Although incomplete ( in many areas ), the new site has some interesting information and downloads. First of all the UnExoticA music area has been completely reworked, and we now host the beginnings of a good demo music collection. Read more at the UnExoticA page. Also we have a new area with Original Artwork for games from memorable artists such as Bob Wakelin. However some areas are not complete, and some music areas are still only available on the old site. See below for a link. Note that these areas will be moved to the new site soon, and all files transferred to the ftp area.
[ More News.. ]
Audio
ExoticA includes a lot of audio related information and downloadable music. Please see the Audio section for a list of all areas included. Highlights of the section are as follows:
- UnExoticA is an collection of music from Amiga games and Demo Scene productions. It is integrated into the wiki so that not only the music is available for download, but that you are free to contribute additional information and help preserve some excellent audio history. All files in the collection are presented in the original file formats. You can find more detailed information and how to contribute to the collection on the UnExoticA page.
- HVSC is the ultimate SID tune collection featuring over 34,000 popular and requested SIDs from the Commodore 64. The collection includes music from games, demos, intros, etc. HVSC has been in the making since 1996, and is the result of many contributors.
Galleries
We have gathered a variety of artwork for you to browse. Highlights of the gallery area are
- Amiga Game Box Scans is a gallery of high quality scans of Amiga games boxes. There is some really fantastic and memorable artwork here. The scans available in this gallery have also been used to create the Exoticons icon set for Amiga computers.
- Original Artwork for games from memorable artists such as Bob Wakelin.
Demo Scene
Demos, megademos, intros, cracktros - the Amiga has seen them all!
This section is dedicated to everything Scene related and includes: -
- Scenery - a guide to the C64 and Amiga demoscene. It has information on releases, parties and groups, and is extremely comprehensive. It's an attempt to cover an important part of digital history, to accurately document things and events that otherwise might be forgotten.
Media and Magazines
This area links to pages with information on Disk based and print magazines, video content, and other bits and pieces including:
- AM/FM - A disk based magazine from the well known Game music composer called Bjørn Lynne (a.k.a. Dr. Awesome) featuring news, reviews, music and audio software.
- Exoticons is an Icon pack for HD installed Amiga Games created from high quality box scans. The most recent version contains 1500 icons and comes in a version for NewIcons and for OS3.5/3.9. OS3.5/3.9.
- Alien Breed Tower Assault Movies - the complete intro and outro movies for this classic CD³² game converted from from CDXL. Includes humorous overview of main story with screenshots and comments.
Other Areas
- Lost In Translation is an attempt to show how well arcade games and movies survived the conversion process to the home computer or console - and vice versa!
- Visit the ExoticA Forum to discuss and chat with other users. Note that as the wiki and forum use different software you will need to make an additional account to post to the forum.
Daily Dumps
- http://www.exotica.org.uk/dumps/ - For preservation purposes and to make the content fully available to the public, daily dumps of the site as XML are available for download. The xml also contains complete revision history of each page and we have the last three months online for download.
Last 10 New Pages
(Within the last 60 days of editing)
- 12:06, 20 April 2008 UnExoticA/Updates/2008 (hist) [704 bytes] UnExoticA (Talk | contribs) (Updated to match UnExoticA collection)
- 11:54, 20 April 2008 Thomas Jaenicke (hist) [972 bytes] UnExoticA (Talk | contribs) (Updated to match UnExoticA collection)
- 22:03, 26 March 2008 The Lords (hist) [229 bytes] Fendrix (Talk | contribs) (New page: ==History== A german demo group born in 1990 in dortmund. ==Members== * fendrix (code) * cap'n crunch (gfx) * pan (gfx) * mac motu (sfx) ==Releases== * first intro [[Category:Amiga Demo...)
- 21:55, 26 March 2008 Leprechaun (hist) [595 bytes] Fendrix (Talk | contribs) (New page: ==History== A german demo group born in 1993 in dortmund. Some very known members from the c64 scene joined the group ... later they joined other famous groups like abyss and haujobb. ==...)
- 16:07, 20 March 2008 News/1998 (hist) [44,548 bytes] XtC (Talk | contribs) (Copied from Old ExoticA and done some basic formatting.)
- 15:27, 7 March 2008 News/1997 (hist) [19,224 bytes] XtC (Talk | contribs) (Copied from Old ExoticA and done some basic formatting.)
- 14:44, 7 March 2008 News/2007 (hist) [5,092 bytes] XtC (Talk | contribs) (Moved from main News page.)
To see all recent wiki changes please refer to the Recent Changes page.
External Links
- The old ExoticA website is still available, for those that want access to some of the files which may not have been migrated to the new site.
