Established
in August 1998 AMI Sector One (ASO) has become more
than three years old. Today it is time to look back,
but also to look forward in the future:
The
site started in 1998 as a small resource for Amiga games
and demos downloads. Already very early I was of the
opinion that emulation in general should be legalized
in some way. You must know that 1998 was the year of
the IDSA (a organization by the world wide most important
leisure software companies which fights against piracy)
which even closed sites offering 10 years old Amiga
titles. My attempts to persuade the software firms to
make their Amiga software available for free were not
very successful. In 1999 I met Jan Brockmann who could
convince Electronic Arts to allow us to have their Amiga
soft on ASO. Soon other companies joined and ASO became
a growing and legal Amiga games archive. 1999 and also
2000 were the years of several layout changes. If you
have been visiting this place for a longer time you
can perhaps remember some of the old drafts. Of course
we continued to try to get new licenses from the software
firms and the site became bigger and bigger. In the
second and third quarters of 2001 things became a bit
silent on ASO because of personal reasons and therefore
we could no longer dedicate so much time to the site.
But this changed as several new staff members
joined in the past months.. Many plans were formed but soon
I realized that a great number of the new helpers could
not fulfill their promises and a enormous part of the
ASO work still had to be done by me. Something had to
be changed and this is the point where we are now:
I
am glad to announce that this is the end of the stand-alone
site AMI Sector One. When you are reading these lines
the major part of AMI Sector One will already be integrated
in the well known Amiga site Back
to the Roots (BTTR). This step was necessary since
it has indeed become too much work for me to maintain
this fast growing site as stated in the previous paragraph.
Also together we see more chances to convince even more
software companies to allow us to distribute their Amiga
software in a free and legal way. I am looking
forward to working in this experienced team. Don't worry:
All AMI Sector One content will move to Back to the Roots
as soon as we have finished converting and integrating all stuff.
Everything else will remain online here until we will have completed
this work intense one time job. Now browse over to
Back to the Roots and enjoy our massive Xmas update.
Finally
I would like to take the opportunity to thank all visitors
and all people who contributed to this site in the past
years. Without your help AMI Sector One would never
have reached its status and good reputation.
I wish you all a good time and will meet you on Back
to the Roots!
Bernd
Gmeineder - Founder AMI Sector One - now member of the BTTR team
