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News
Update about recent downtime
Friday, 4 June 2010
Some of you might have noticed that the site went offline last Friday, and then came back in read only mode (and the other sites
on the server remained off for a few days). Just our bad luck, but we had yet another server failure. Last year around the same time
the main harddisk failed, and we switched over to a new machine. Then two days short of a year, the new machine has a failure, and on
a Bank Holiday weekend too! This time the harddisk was fine though luckily (restoring from backups is not fun). I brought this site back up in read only mode on my home connection, and a few days later Mythic-Beasts our friendly hosts swapped the disk into a replacement machine. Sorry for any inconvenience by the downtime. We don't plan to go offline again soon! Fingers crossed!
Games Industry Voice-over legend turns 19
Tuesday, 9 March 2010
Colin the Burmese cat turns 19, to appear at Bath Spa University.
Read more on the ExoticA forum
Maybe not news but News
Saturday, 27 February 2010
Just a brief update on things. Those utilising the modland ogg/mp3 recording service may have noticed a temporary loss of service for a couple of days. This was due to a rebuild of the server that is used for streaming. It would have been wise to report on this but unfortunately other unrelated problems caused a failure in the PR department ;-). All is well now though. Hopefully I can update you with some new changes soon. In the meantime, if you haven't tried the recording service, I can give you a couple of my favourite searches : Drax's fantastic Fasttracker II tunes, and Pink of Abyss' great AHX tracks.
Actually there has been a couple of updates in the recording backend. It now only should show ogg/mp3 links for formats that are actually playable, and the psf format was added, meaning you can download a variety of Playstation 1 tunes for playback. Enjoy!
BuZz 03:06, 27 February 2010 (GMT)
New album "Gravity Crash Anthems" from Cold Storage
Wednesday, 20 January 2010
Tim Wright (aka Cold Storage) has released his 5th studio album entitled "Gravity Crash Anthems". With this album Tim has gone back to his roots, with some 80's inspired electro style synth sounds including the Commodore 64 SID Chip. The album is based on his soundtrack for the game "Gravity Crash" now available for the PS3 (on PSN), but with with extended remixes and other extras. It is well worth a listen (User:BuZz especially likes the Scarface 6581 remix), and you can get it from the Cold Storage page on Bandcamp.
His next album will be to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Psygnosis (on the 3rd July 2010) which should be available later this year. We look forward to this eagerly, and wish Tim all the best with his future projects.
Music
- UnExoticA is an collection of music from Amiga games and Demo Scene productions. All files in the collection are presented in the original file formats.
- Modland is a very large, and well organised module archive created and maintained by Daniel Johansson, which contains over 400,000 music modules in more than 300 different formats. ExoticA provides a search interface for navigating the collection which includes the ability to search and display instrument data, as well as downloading recordings in ogg and mp3 format.
- HVSC is the ultimate SID tune collection featuring over 36,000 popular and requested tunes from the Commodore 64. ExoticA provides a search interface for navigating the collection which allows the searching and display of related data from the SID Tune Information List
Galleries
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- 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. There are also Amiga Utility Box Scans and an Amiga Educational Box Scans areas in development.
- A gallery of game box artwork from Bob Wakelin each one with some comments from Bob about the work and designs.
Demo Scene
- 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.
- Amiga Demo Database - An alternative search frontend to the Bitworld demo collection which contains more than 23,000 demo releases. Allows browsing by name, group, type, party and many other advanced search options.
Media and Magazines
- 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 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.
Wiki Dumps and Files
- Textual Content as XML - Directory Listing - 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.
- Wiki based graphics - Directory Listing - The graphical content of the wiki is also available from the ftp and is dumped every so often. Note that many of the images may be copyrighted, and some are licensed specifically for ExoticA. Please check before using.
- File archive - Directory Listing - The rest of the sites files are available from FTP - excluding a few collections like Modland which are listed on the Modland page itself.
