We need all Amiga fans to help us out.
You have hopefully all visited and looked at our Game and Demoscene directories, and we hope you have enjoyed looking through them. But we still have much work to do before these will be complete, and this is where we need your help.
We are looking for anyone who still owns original copies of Amiga games and Amiga magazines, as well as anyone who was involved with the Amiga in any way. In addition any Amiga fans who are just willing to help us out are most welcome as there is still much to do that you can help with.
Click on Read More to see more details on how you can help.
Amiga Games
If you still own original Amiga games then we need your help. We are looking for anyone willing to scan in the complete manuals that came with each game, as well as the front and back covers of the original game boxes and the labels on the actual game disks, and then to send them into us. Good quality jpg images are what we need and the larger the resolution the better as we can then reduce them ready fo the site. It's better to send us images that are too big, than too small.
Game Screenshots
In addition we also need volenteers to create game screenshots for us. If you have some spare time and enjoy playing Amiga games then please help us out. Using WinUAE you can save screenshots as you play the games (please ask if you need to know how to do this).
If you want to help out with this then save the screenshots in PNG format at a resoluton of roughly 640x512 and try to create a good number of images for each game that show as much of the game as possible (title screens, loading screens, menus, in game shots, each in game level etc). With between 10 and 20 screenshots per game being a good number.
Before creating a series of screenshots for a game please check in the games directory to make sure someone else hasn't already created some for your chosen game. If they have then please select a different game we do not currently have any screenshots for.
Amiga Hardware
The new classicamiga hardware section features a directory of Amiga hardware, both from Commodore and as many third party companies if we can find information for it. We are therefore looking for any information on hardware for the Amiga, regardless of what it is, what it is for, and who manufactered it, to include within our hardware database.
If you still own some Amiga hardware please take some pictures of it and send them to us. We are also looking for scans of the hardware's manuals, adf, dms or lha archives of the hardware's software and drivers, photographs of the packaging and boxes the hardware came in, and anything else that came with or is related to the hardware.
Amiga Software
Coming very soon will be a new section on classicamiga dedicated to Amiga software. This will be a directory of all non-game software released on the Amiga. This will include productivity applications, utilties and anything else ever released on the Amiga.
We are therefore looking for anyone who still owns original copies of any Amiga software. We need phptographs/scans of the boxes and packaging the software came in, scans of the floppy disk labels, full scans of the software's manuals which we will make into PDF files, and adf, dms, or lha archives of the actual software disks that were included. And where possible (legally) we will make this software available for donwload on the site.
Amiga Magazines
A future section of classicamiga is going to feature Amiga Magazines, so we are currently looking for everyone who still owns original copies of Amiga magazines and is willing to spend some time either scanning them in for us, or who is willing to send their original magqazines to us to scan ourselves. We need all the help we can get with this. In addition if you have collections of scanned Amiga magazines and can offer these collections of files please also get in touch as it will be a huge help.
Also if you are the owner of another site who hosts scanned Amiga magazines and would be willing for us to use them on classicamiga please let us know. All credit will be included for anything we use and host on classicamiga.
Crediting contributions
We will try to use all content sent to us and all contributors to the site will be mentioned in either our credits page, or if you are a member your account will be marked as you being a contributor to the site and you will then appear in the classicamiga site contributions page. If you are willing to help us out with this please register on the forum and offer your help. We can then give you some further details on what we need.
What else are we looking for?
Do you have some favourite Amiga games or demo scene productons? If so then please share your thoughts with us by writing some reviews for the site. It is very easy to do. Just register with classicamiga, then go to your favourite game or demo within the site directories and you can add a review at the bottom of each page. We look forward to seeing what you all think of your favourite Amiga games and demos and the best reviews submitted will be promoted to the editors review for each game.
Were you involved with the Amiga?
We are also looking for anyone who was involved with the Amiga. Did you code a game, create it's graphics or compose its music? If so we would love to hear from you and would like to get some thoughts on what the Amiga meant to you, why you used it and created on it, and what your fondest memories of the Amiga are. We will feature anything you share with us on the site.
We hope you all like classicamiga and how far our relaunched site has come in just over a year, and we hope that with your help we can continue to grow.
Thank you all for visiting and we hope to see you coming back again and we also hope to see you all visiting us in the classicamiga forums.
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Also from my part, I address myself to all you Amiga enthusiastic people out there, we'd be glad if you can contribute whatever it is.
Thanks in advance from the moderators team.
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