Amiga Music Preservation

Amiga Music Preservation (AMP), a non profit association, is running the biggest and most comprehensive database ever about amiga music and amiga musicians. All the composers of the amiga deserve to be remembered and to have their work preserved. We tried all we could on our own but although it's growing all the time, now we seriously need you to help us one way or another.

Additions & modifications history

08.01.2015 (15:22) - Nous sommes Charlie! - by Crown

The Amiga Music Preservation team supports Charlie Hebdo!

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10.12.2014 (10:15) - Thanatos (Daniel Dimitrijevic) passed away - by Crown

We were just informed that Daniel Dimitrijevic (AKA Thanatos) sadly passed away on January, 2nd, 2014. I had had the pleasure of meeting him back in 1991, at the Iris New Year Conference, in company of Doh. We send our warmest condolences to his widow.

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01.01.2014 (13:45) - 2014 - by Asle

And here we are. Yet another year has come and gone. 2013 was nice, but it's now 2014.

The usual "log" of what happened, here, follows:
7200+ musics added
~400 musics were updated
1100+ authors were added and/or updated
100+ groups were added and/or updated
50+ pics were added

News wise, Crown has made some appearances throughout the year and 2014 could see his come back

. Curt Cool is lost somewhere in Australia. Nothing much to report for the others.

That's about it. Remains to wish you all a happy new year 2014, that, in the name of all AMP team.

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30.12.2013 (23:13) - demozoo - by Asle

At last, demozoo is open to public !
It still has rough edges, but it's already looking great. So, all the best to you, Menace, and your team for this nice looking project

I'll try to follow what's happening.

PS: And, of course, linking musics from AMP is more than welcome. Should something be done on our end, please, tell me/us.

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01.09.2013 (13:36) - 130.000 - by Asle

Well, here we are : 130.000 tracked musics are now registered on AMP.

This was made possible by the tireless contributors, on and off the headlights. To all, here's a renewed thanks for still feeding the beast

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More stuff to come, of course, as the todo list doesn't seem to diminish at all ... *geee*.
Special hello(s) to Independent and Axxy for the massive contributions.

The AMP team.
PS: in case of doubt, please send us any material anyway. We'll handle it.

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18.08.2013 (19:37) - Kestra / Bitworld demo database is now V2.0 - by Asle

This is the new version 2.0, codename: JANEWAY

Same old team of people who care about Amiga demo preservation.

>> Kestra / Bitworld database V2

The Kestra Team and especially PHP master AGS, tireless admin Curt Cool, Zeg and collectors Asle and Menace/SPB presents V2.0 of BitWorld! (Or Kestra, depending how long you've been following us!)

If you've linked to us on Facebook/Youtube/Pouet etc., you have to do nothing. The old links are (301) directed to the new site automatically with no fuss.

Features:
- inline screenshots with hover in searches
- link support for mp3/ogg generation of .mod etc
- link support for Youtube recordings
- More information
- More ways to interconnect prods by author, pack, party, etc
- tag system

And remember: If you have disks that we don't, contact our team. We would love to preserve and document them for posterity! 8|

We are also in #amigaexotic on IRCNet, as usual.

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23.05.2013 (18:45) - Modulez.org down - by Asle

Hi all,

Darth Nefelim notified me about the unfortunate end of the great modulez.org site, that happened last month. I feel sorry such a respected, historic collection closes down. Still, a big thank you to its admins/users for the good dozen years of success.
With that, here follows the end message as written by Yero:

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Dear friends,

After more than ten years (2000-2013) providing a meeting point for musicians of the modscene, modulez.org has been closed down. During all this time the site has hosted more than 1400 artists, 4700 tunes, 4000 comments, 200 news and 100 forum topics, which prove the success of our community.

However, during the last four years the site has suffered from a severe decrease in activity, which follows the trend of other modscene and demoscene sites in general.

We hope that all you had a good time in modulez.org, and that you remember those times with fond

Finally, I want to thank the people who have worked hard first to build the site and then to maintain this site and the IRC channel active, specially to Herotyc, Likuid, sole, JosSs, Alpha C, DSteele, and Sergeeo, and also to Mityorn and Recena for the hosting at metamacro.com and scenesp, respectively.

-yero

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23.04.2013 (16:03) - AMP Player app for iOS - by Crown

Our Finnish friend Aleksi Sitomaniemi has just released an AMP player APP for Apple OS (iPhone, etc.) which you can find here!

Here is a quote from Aleski: "I have created an iPhone application that connects to http://amp.dascene.net for doing composer/module searches. App is capable of downloading modules and playing them back (I'm using un4seen bass engine for playback, so supporting the most common formats, but not all of them). It started as a get-to-know iOS project when I was suddenly out of project in my job at spring, and was on hold for a couple of months while I had more time-demanding paid work to attend, but I'm pretty happy with current version and looking forward to releasing it to app store.

Thanks Aleksi. Btw looking forward to your AMP related get-to-know Android project. Wink

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04.04.2013 (01:36) - Rink A Dink Redux - music - by Asle

Hi,

I'm happy to report that Paradroid shared the original musics that are featured in the aforementioned demo. Those are the three first musics in today's report. In the demo, those are in P61A format.
While I'm overwhelmed with gratitude for Paradroid's move, I wish originals musics were shared more commonly, along with releases.

Please, coders, musicians, help us collecting original material

Cheers
Sylvain

PS: the demo is here (and on pouet as well)

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04.03.2013 (16:54) - Tecon interview - by Asle

A more mundane news. Tecon has contacted me (Asle) and has been kind enough to answer to a few questions. His interview is now available for reading here.

Huge thanks for the interview (and the original of MOD.offworld !).

Sylvain

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01.03.2013 (20:21) - server reshape - by Asle

All

Monty reshaped a bit the OS, running AMP. It unfortunately led to a complete formating of the HD and thus, led also to a reboot. All musics are being re-uploaded as I write this message. Should take a few hours. I'll update this message when this is done.
We apologize for the inconvenience during this period.

UPDATE: musics are now available ! FTP is up as well.

Cheers
Sylvain

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24.02.2013 (10:31) - some more rosy news - by Asle

Hey all,

Curt Cool's wife gave birth to a beautiful Julie earlier this month.
I'm sure you'll all join me in congratulating them

Meanwhile, Curty still found the time to hand over a CD48 (yes, we are there ..). How you managed this one, Frank, is beyond me

Cheers
Sylvain

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01.01.2013 (10:29) - 2013 - by Asle

All

And then, suddenly, 2012 is gone. It feels like this last years was shorter, if we stick to AMP's figures:
- 6500+ musics were added
- 300+ musics were updated/changed
- 179 pictures were added
- 400 authors were added (600+ modified and 20 removed)
I hope AMP fares at least that good in 2013 Wink

In the name of AMP team, I wish you the best for 2013.

Cheers
Sylvain

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05.12.2012 (19:38) - Gacuch/Accord passed away - by Asle

All,

We get the news that "Marcin Gackowski (Gacuch/Accord) suddenly passed away on 2 octobre 2012".
This is very sad news and AMP team members wish to send their deepest condolences to his family.

Marcin was a prolific musician we number more than 100 musics.

As heart breaking as it is, we thank whoever uploaded this news, along with some photos, on the FTP.

Sylvain

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20.11.2012 (19:02) - Kestra at 30000 - by Asle

Well, the title says it all I guess. Kestra has now reached the 30000 Amiga prods mark.
Hats off, Zeg

Although, AMP isn't officially linked to Kestra, both Curt Cool and myself are involved deeply in this project.
Anyway, I look forward to 35000

On the news department, Crown has been seen lurking around. He started to update some information anew ... not really a grand come back, but ...