Subj : AmigaNet nodelist archive
To   : All
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Sat Jan 11 2025 23:58:33

Hi All,

A couple of weeks back I "found" a backup of an old system of mine, "hidden"
somewhere in a sub/sub directory of my data disk. On that backup there was a
set of old AmigaNet nodelists. This put me on a quest to find as many old
AmigaNet nodelists as possible. So the last couple of weeks I went through all
old HD's I still had laying around from the last couple of decenia, and found a
 lot of them!

I also found out that not all disks are still 100% readable. Most still worked,
 but some had read errors on a lot of files. So if you think keeping old hard
disks for backup or archival purposes, think again!

Finding them is one thing, putting them in an organized archive was also a bit
of work. I came across different file names AMYLIST.* AmyList.*, different
compression formats: .zip and .lha, or not compressed. And files that didn't
have the correct file date. But that is all sorted now. ;-)

The result can be found here:

https://amiganet.fidoweb.net/amylist-archive/

It's pretty much complete from the time I became the ZC in July 1999 upto now,
with only a few missing here and there, and about half a year from July 2010 to
 January 2011. But from before that period I only have 4 from 1995, 1996, 1998
and 1999. Maybe some of you have archives, or backups, or maybe even on
floppy's, that can fill in the missing parts? That would be nice! ;-)

What I still like to do is check if the 30 your old disks in my Amiga 4000
still work, and if there are maybe some files on them that can be rescued to
add to the archive. And then there are a lot of even older floppies...
Condition unkown... And can you even read Amiga floppy's on a Linux system?

Bye, Wilfred.

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