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`04.Oct.2007` Andreas Magerl (ANF)	Amiga Future: New full versions online Press release Due to the fact that some issues of the Amiga Future have been sold out in the meantime, we have put new full versions for free download on the Amiga Future homepage. You can download them at the title link. We look for someone who wants to take care of the downloads section of the Amiga Future. In fact it is about writing system requirements and small descriptions for each software package in German and English. The issue 68 has been released recently and is available in our online shop. Right now we work hard on issue 69. No. 68 is the second Amiga Future issue being published in both German and English. You can order the second English Issue of Amiga Future from our online shop. (snx) [News message: 04. Oct. 2007, 07:47] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Oct.2007` Ralf Steines (ANF)	Back to the Roots: Status Information Press release During the last week the Back to the Roots main archive was completely enabled again, All files are online again. Nearly all funtions are active again. The archive is still located on our completely filled up 160GB server, but we opened it for your convenience while we duplicate it to our new terabyte server during the next weeks. After this we will have space again to continue with site updates, which we expect around the end of the year. Once the new server is installed we will exchange both machines, which might yield in some temporary inconveniences for you, surely no big issue after the long wait... After this, we will rework our current machine as a backup mirror and team project server, where independent, topic related non profit projects could find an advertising free home, preferable people who want to help us to extend the main archive with legal content. Until we finished reworking all, our mail server will be offline, due to the lack of disk space. Mails sent to @back2roots.org addresses will be forwarded to NIL:, so don\'t be upset if you contacted us and got no reply. All mails ever sent from our online email form is not lost, and will be responded with time. Our FTP-Server will be updated once it\'s on the new machine. Dozends of CDs are waiting to be placed online. Today I (Ralf) found out that Fred Fish died in April (didn\'t know that yet). What a shame, he\'s the pioneer of PD and open source for me. May he rest in peace! Before his death, Fred gave us the license to put all his productions online at our site, as long as we request third party rights separately. This makes it possible (and is a historical duty too) to preserve Fred\'s complete binary life work legally for everybody. That\'s why we are searching for everything which carries his name. Please have a look at your collections (originals) and send us lists together with the respective copyright notes (in case of third party involved) to me, if you want to help. If you are one of these 3rd party copyright holders, please consider helping us with a license for your part. We also search original disk images (ADF, DMS, etc, not lha) of his FF/AmigaLib series for preservating them in their original form. Thanks, Fred. We will never forget you! (snx) [News message: 03. Oct. 2007, 12:37] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Sep.2007` Ralf Steines (ANF)	Back to the Roots: Status information In the meantime, since the most diverse speculations on the whereabouts of the back2roots.org main archive have spread in the Amiga and emulation community, which is well-versed in rumors, here is a brief status update: The BTTR server was never disconnected, but ran technically unattended for the last two years (more precisely, since the summer of 2005). Since everything is automated except for updates, this was initially not a problem either. Surely, everyone has noticed that we suffered under massive disk space bottlenecks and our update frequency became ever sparser. Then, through appeals for donations, we have tried to afford financing our further growth (and we still have a lot up our sleeves) with the help of the community. A considerable amount of donations came together, too, so that for now, nothing stands in the way of the project's future. But now, a complete disruption of the hard disk storage unit came by, despite all the stability of the automation in the absence of the programmer Ralf Steines (hippie2000) from the Net. In the process, important parts of the BTTR engine were overwritten with empty files. Surely, everyone has seen the result... Anyway, Ralf is back, the core of the team is reunited, and right now, we are working on the reconstruction of the server which is located at the University of Trondheim, to make possible the next growth of the project. To all those who have donated until now: Count on it that everything arrived and will now be used (or was already used) for the specified purpose. All others are still welcome to participate. You can find details on back2roots.org. In the next weeks, we are reconstructing everything, reinstalling the machines, configuring everything, in order to be available to you soon in old glory again. Afterwards, it goes on with new updates. Till then, the page is available symbolically with limited functionality, so that everyone can see that we are back, so please, a little patience still. Best regards, Your back2roots.org team (snx) (Translation: cad) [News message: 23. Sep. 2007, 08:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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