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Don't forget http://asciiarena.com/

It has the history of Amiga's Ascii scene. 3879 collys.

If someone is not familiar with the term "ascii colly": It was (usually) a .txt file made by a single person. As they originated from Amiga scene, they were mostly in latin1 encoding. In many cases released under some group's name. A typical colly featured 20-60 requested or gifted ascii logos, foreword, index of logos, greetings, respects, some other messages. And of course guest art from other artists (for artist logo, group logo, file_id.diz or headers for "greetings", "respects" etc.). In these text files the file_id.diz was put between @BEGIN_FILE_ID.DIZ and @END_FILE_ID.DIZ tags.

Too bad the site is going down, because the site, as it is today, is consuming too much of the server resources. Some handy web developer could save the site. Currently it seems that there isn't a person in "today's" Amiga scene who had the time or skills to save the site.




Please have them contact the archive team, I guarantee they'd want to at least backup all of this: http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Main_Page




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