Aminet
More info
- Creator
- Urban Müller
- Type
- Software archive
- Released
- 1992
- Website
- aminet.net
The world's largest Amiga software archive, running since 1992 and stubbornly alive long after the platform died.
Aminet was started in 1992 by Switzerland's Urban Müller as a single unified FTP archive for free Amiga software. It grew to tens of thousands of packages — tools, games, MOD music, source code — each with a standardized .readme file and mirrors worldwide. Through the 90s the whole archive was pressed regularly onto the "Aminet CD" series for those without a connection. Aminet succeeded the curated model of the Fred Fish disks with something more open: anyone could upload. The site at aminet.net is still up, a museum you can still ftp into.