The Classicamiga forums will be going multiformat in the next couple of weeks.

We all share the love of the Amiga; it is the reason everyone originally came to this site, and what attracted you to joining. However we also all share a larger passion of all things retro. With this in mind I am going to be working on making these forums less Amiga specific, and more about the whole retro scene. Especially of focus will be retro gaming, emulation and the demoscene, but real hardware will not be forgotten.

New front page areas.

The front page area of the forums will see new sections that members can submit content to.

News, Reviews and Features.

Members will be able to submit news about anything, for any platform, for inclusion in the main front page news feed, which I hope will be very useful for anyone running a project and wishing to announce some launch or update info to the retro world.

In addition members will be allowed to write and submit reviews for anything they like for inclusion in the reviews section, or create a feature specific to any subject they wish (f.ex the demoscene, the latest dreamcast game, something about the PS3... whatever you like). All content will be linked by tags in a way familiar to anyone who uses a blog. That way you can easily categorise your submitted content into platform and subject content.

It will be an ongoing process, evolving over time based on ideas and suggestions by all members, so if you have some ideas please do post a reply and let me know your thoughts. This will also be a chance to try and streamline some parts of the forum structure already in place, and also to move many areas currently within the off topic section of the forums into more prominent sections of the site.

Where does this leave the main classicamiga.com website?

Classicamiga.com will remain as it stands, a directory/archive of all things Amiga. It will continue to focus purely on the Amiga, and its software and hardware. That project will not change, although it is due some updates that are planned for later in the year.

And the Wiki?

The Classicamiga Wiki will however also be going multiformat eventually. Its continuing aim to collect together as much of the useful information about everything retro that is floating around the internet. So much invaluable information and help is posted every day on an expanse of difference communities. The goal of the evolving wiki will be to collect it all together and create a central repository of retro information to help the whole retro community, and to help archive all the information to help prevent the knowledge getting lost over time, especially as communities close or evolve.

More to come..

I also have something else big planned, which will appear alongside the evolution of the forums... More on this coming soon...