ExoticA : News

14-Apr-07: Jan Zottmann (Amiga Immortal) contacted me about aquiring the soundtrack to the amiga game "Cedric and the Lost Sceptre" (http://hol.abime.net/2958). He is in talks with the original composer Rainer "Brainbug" Nilsen about making an arrangement of the game track, however, Rainer no longer has his original music, and so needs your help.
Jan has made a very generous offer of a prize of ALL THREE IMMORTAL ALBUMS for the soundtrack.
For more information and how to enter, please visit the ExoticA forum competition thread.

20-Jun-06: Work continues on the new version of the site. Most of the static content from this site is now on the new site, although structure is not finalised yet.
Although this new page does not see many updates, there have been ongoing changes on the site. For example ExoticA's mirror of the High Voltage SID Collection has been kept up to date. The latest update brings it to version 45. The collection now contains 32,000 C64 tunes.
ExoticA's mirror of this collection offers the music individually via a simple to use HTML Interface or you can download the entire collection in one large GZIP'd TAR Archive - HVSC_45-all-of-them.tar.gz. Also, we now offer the collection as an all-in-one ZIP file - HVSC_45-all-of-them.zip and an all-in-one RAR file - HVSC_45-all-of-them.rar. To see whats new since the last reported update please check out the the e-mail announcement text update45.txt. For more in depth changes, you can refer to the update logs in the DOCUMENTS/ Directory.
The Amiga Demo Scene Reference Manual page had not been updated for some time even though I (BuZz) had been sent new versions to put online. Sorry Zeg! However, a new project replaces this now: The Amiga Demo Scene Online Encyclopedia! The old plain text data has now been turn into a database with an easy to use searchable web interface. You can find this at http://kestra.exotica.org.uk. Thanks to Zeg for his hard work with the data and Andy Silva for the interface.
Of course, the UnExoticA section of the site has been kept up to date. Many new CD32 soundtracks have been added in recent months and the archive is now a whopping 2 Gigabytes in size! Big thanks to XtC for his continued work on this area and to all the contributers who kindly submit music for inclusion.
To finish with, I put up a new logo on the intro page, which was contributed a long long time ago by George Davis. Thanks!

17-Mar-06: ExoticA has moved. The new address is http://www.exotica.org.uk for the main site and http://se.exotica.org.uk for the mirror (Still hosted on Hangar18).
The main site is now hosted on my own machine with Mythic-Beasts, who are kindly sponsoring the large amount of bandwidth that the site requires. The machine is a little Exotic :-) too as it's a Mac Mini (Running PowerPC Debian). For more information please see the Hosting Page.
You might also be wondering, why has the news not been updated for more than a year! Well, up until the end of last year, my only excuse was laziness and I'm sorry. There have been updates on the site though. The High Voltage SID Collection has been kept up to date, and there has been a lot of updates to the UnExoticA section of the site. This is due to XtC being a far less lazy chap than me (BuZz).
In the last few months I have been less lazy though! We (BuZz, XtC and Kyzer) have been working on a new incarnation of the site. More information will follow soon(ish). As soon as it gets to a beta state we will launch it alongside the current site.

24-Jan-05: As promised, XtC as been busy working on the UnExoticA Amiga game music section. This update is over 100 megabytes and includes some excellent CD32 game soundtracks. To see the most recent changes please check the UnExotica Updates page. The collection now contains 7598 files. Thats over 790 megabytes of classic Amiga tunes!

23-Jan-05: Added 16 scans to the Games Gallery. Each scan has the author information and a link to the game music if available. The new scans are:
E: Empire, Empire Soccer '94, Erik, ESWAT, Evil Garden, Exile, Edd The Duck 2, Emperor Of The Mines, Excalibur, Exile, Extensor, Eagles Nest, Elf (Ocean), Elvira 2, Embryo
S: SideWinder (Replacement Scan)
Thanks to Wildwest and others for their help and contributions for the gallery.
Since the last update the High Voltage SID Collection was also updated. The latest update brings it to version 5.8. The collection now contains 27,653 C64 tunes.
ExoticA's mirror of this collection offers the music individually via a simple to use HTML Interface or you can download the entire collection in one large GZIP'd TAR Archive - HVSC.tar.gz. Also, we now offer the collection as an all-in-one ZIP file - HVSC_5.8-all-of-them.zip and an all-in-one RAR file - HVSC_5.8-all-of-them.rar. To see whats new since the last reported update please check out the the e-mail announcement text update40.txt. For more in depth changes, you can refer to the update logs in the DOCUMENTS/ Directory.
Since the last update there have been 3 UnExoticA updates. You can view them on the UnExotica Updates page. There will be a big update to UnExotica coming tomorrow. Watch this space.

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14-Apr-07:	Jan Zottmann (Amiga Immortal) contacted me about aquiring the soundtrack to the amiga game "Cedric and the Lost Sceptre" (http://hol.abime.net/2958). He is in talks with the original composer Rainer "Brainbug" Nilsen about making an arrangement of the game track, however, Rainer no longer has his original music, and so needs your help. Jan has made a very generous offer of a prize of ALL THREE IMMORTAL ALBUMS for the soundtrack. For more information and how to enter, please visit the ExoticA forum competition thread.
20-Jun-06:	Work continues on the new version of the site. Most of the static content from this site is now on the new site, although structure is not finalised yet. Although this new page does not see many updates, there have been ongoing changes on the site. For example ExoticA's mirror of the High Voltage SID Collection has been kept up to date. The latest update brings it to version 45. The collection now contains 32,000 C64 tunes. ExoticA's mirror of this collection offers the music individually via a simple to use HTML Interface or you can download the entire collection in one large GZIP'd TAR Archive - HVSC_45-all-of-them.tar.gz. Also, we now offer the collection as an all-in-one ZIP file - HVSC_45-all-of-them.zip and an all-in-one RAR file - HVSC_45-all-of-them.rar. To see whats new since the last reported update please check out the the e-mail announcement text update45.txt. For more in depth changes, you can refer to the update logs in the DOCUMENTS/ Directory. The Amiga Demo Scene Reference Manual page had not been updated for some time even though I (BuZz) had been sent new versions to put online. Sorry Zeg! However, a new project replaces this now: The Amiga Demo Scene Online Encyclopedia! The old plain text data has now been turn into a database with an easy to use searchable web interface. You can find this at http://kestra.exotica.org.uk. Thanks to Zeg for his hard work with the data and Andy Silva for the interface. Of course, the UnExoticA section of the site has been kept up to date. Many new CD32 soundtracks have been added in recent months and the archive is now a whopping 2 Gigabytes in size! Big thanks to XtC for his continued work on this area and to all the contributers who kindly submit music for inclusion. To finish with, I put up a new logo on the intro page, which was contributed a long long time ago by George Davis. Thanks!
17-Mar-06:	ExoticA has moved. The new address is http://www.exotica.org.uk for the main site and http://se.exotica.org.uk for the mirror (Still hosted on Hangar18). The main site is now hosted on my own machine with Mythic-Beasts, who are kindly sponsoring the large amount of bandwidth that the site requires. The machine is a little Exotic :-) too as it's a Mac Mini (Running PowerPC Debian). For more information please see the Hosting Page. You might also be wondering, why has the news not been updated for more than a year! Well, up until the end of last year, my only excuse was laziness and I'm sorry. There have been updates on the site though. The High Voltage SID Collection has been kept up to date, and there has been a lot of updates to the UnExoticA section of the site. This is due to XtC being a far less lazy chap than me (BuZz). In the last few months I have been less lazy though! We (BuZz, XtC and Kyzer) have been working on a new incarnation of the site. More information will follow soon(ish). As soon as it gets to a beta state we will launch it alongside the current site.
24-Jan-05:	As promised, XtC as been busy working on the UnExoticA Amiga game music section. This update is over 100 megabytes and includes some excellent CD32 game soundtracks. To see the most recent changes please check the UnExotica Updates page. The collection now contains 7598 files. Thats over 790 megabytes of classic Amiga tunes!
23-Jan-05:	Added 16 scans to the Games Gallery. Each scan has the author information and a link to the game music if available. The new scans are: E: Empire, Empire Soccer '94, Erik, ESWAT, Evil Garden, Exile, Edd The Duck 2, Emperor Of The Mines, Excalibur, Exile, Extensor, Eagles Nest, Elf (Ocean), Elvira 2, Embryo S: SideWinder (Replacement Scan) Thanks to Wildwest and others for their help and contributions for the gallery. Since the last update the High Voltage SID Collection was also updated. The latest update brings it to version 5.8. The collection now contains 27,653 C64 tunes. ExoticA's mirror of this collection offers the music individually via a simple to use HTML Interface or you can download the entire collection in one large GZIP'd TAR Archive - HVSC.tar.gz. Also, we now offer the collection as an all-in-one ZIP file - HVSC_5.8-all-of-them.zip and an all-in-one RAR file - HVSC_5.8-all-of-them.rar. To see whats new since the last reported update please check out the the e-mail announcement text update40.txt. For more in depth changes, you can refer to the update logs in the DOCUMENTS/ Directory. Since the last update there have been 3 UnExoticA updates. You can view them on the UnExotica Updates page. There will be a big update to UnExotica coming tomorrow. Watch this space.
Old News:	`Oct-Dec 1997 Jan-Mar 1998, Apr-Jun 1998, Jul-Sep 1998, Oct-Dec 1998 Jan-Mar 1999, Apr-Jun 1999, Jul-Sep 1999, Oct-Dec 1999 Jan-Mar 2000, Apr-Jun 2000, Jul-Sep 2000, Oct-Dec 2000 Jan-Mar 2001, Apr-Jun 2001, Jul-Sep 2001, Oct-Dec 2001 Jan-Mar 2002, Apr-Jun 2002, Jul-Sep 2002, Oct-Dec 2002 Jan-Mar 2003, Apr-Jun 2003, Jul-Sep 2003, Oct-Dec 2003 Jan-Mar 2004, Apr-Jun 2004, Jul-Sep 2004`