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Welcome to the Catalog of Disk Magazines!

💾❔ What is a 'disk magazine'?

🦸‍♂️🦹‍♀️ Who is involved in this project?

Browse

📖 in alphabetical order

🗂️ by a category:

👓 in a curated subcollection:

🎉 in an open subcollection:

🖼️ Gallery of selected diskmags
👩‍💻 Currently active diskmags (upcoming)
🛒 Commercial Diskmags (upcoming)

🔎 or enter a search term

News

see also: 📖👩‍🏫 Publications and Presentations

2025

added Amiga Rulez (8 Jan)

2024

updated Violence and Overshadow (6 Dec)
updated Scene World and Digital Talk (25 Nov)
curated subset of magazines from East-Central European Diskmags is now available (25 July)
iRights.info released some helpful slides on legal implications of text mining diskmags (12 June)
Noerdman released a webcomic about our project in the GI magazine, see here! (22 Apr)
paper at DHd 2024 (28 Feb)
plenary talk at Edition als Transformation (22 Feb)

2023

talk at 37C3: Das Diskmags-Projekt (28 Dec)
added an Italian Diskmag: RUN (21 Dec)
added a Serbian Diskmag: Amiga Front (14 Dec)
conference paper published: Diskettenmagazine als Frühes Kulturerbe (29 Nov)
updated the complete catalog (20 Oct)

Data

Quantity

2515 disk magazines
17578 single issues (including duplicate records)

Quality

Curated subcollections belong to finished research projects. Data should be checked and complete.
Open subcollections are curated in a continuous process. Data is possibly incomplete.
Many issues still need to be checked, updated, or merged.

Availability

Data from this catalog is accessible through a REST API:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:REST_API
Raw datasets are available at our GitHub Repository:
https://github.com/zpd-digital-editions/Diskmags

Contact

If you like to help or if you have any question, please contact us: info💾diskmags.de.

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-== Introduction ==
+__NOTOC__
+== Welcome to the Catalog of Disk Magazines! ==
-Welcome to our online catalog dedicated to the fascinating world of disk magazines, also known as 'diskmags', 'diskzines', or 'magazettes'. Our site provides a comprehensive database of these multimedia periodicals designed exclusively for personal computers and published on digital media, particularly 5.25" and 3.5" floppy disks.
+💾❔ [[Diskmags_Catalog:Intro|What is a 'disk magazine'?]]
-Diskmags reached their pinnacle of popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s, predominantly originating from the United States, United Kingdom, West Germany, Italy, Sweden, Finland, and various other countries. While many disk magazines were published in English, numerous vibrant language communities produced their own remarkable publications. It's worth noting that reading a disk magazine was limited to the specific computer system it was created for.
+🦸‍♂️🦹‍♀️ [[Diskmags_Catalog:About|Who is involved in this project?]]
-During their heyday, some disk magazines were readily available in regular newspaper shops, often affordable enough for pocket money purchases. A secondary readership emerged through the trading and circulation of pirate copies, contributing to their widespread dissemination. Some disk magazines were even exclusively distributed through copying. With the advent of the World Wide Web in the 1990s, the majority of disk magazines either ceased production or migrated to online platforms, often retaining the term 'disk magazine' in their titles.
+== Browse ==
-Regrettably, the preservation of these valuable historical artifacts has been lacking, with libraries generally neglecting their collection. Consequently, the current state of preservation for disk magazines is relatively poor. However, through this catalog, we aim to shed light on these captivating publications, ensuring their significance is recognized and appreciated by enthusiasts ... like yourself!
+📖 in [[Special:Ask/-5B-5BCategory:Magazine-5D-5D/mainlabel%3D/limit%3D50/offset%3D0/format%3Dcategory|alphabetical order]]
-== People and Institutions ==
+🗂️ by a category:
+* 🖥️ [[Systems|computer system]]
+* 💬 [[Languages|content language]]
+* 🗺️ [[Countries|country of origin]]
+* 🎩 [[Publishers|publishers]]
+* 👨‍🎤 [[Groups|scene related groups]]
+* 💙 [[Sources|data source]]
-In 2023, the project is funded by [https://text-plus.org Text+], a consortium of the [https://www.nfdi.de Nationale Forschungsdaten-Infrastruktur] of Germany, and by the [https://www.vogel-stiftung.de/ Vogel Stiftung Dr. Eckernkamp] and the [https://www.unibund.de/ Universitätsbund Würzburg]. The project is hosted at the [https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/zpd/startseite/ Zentrum für Philologie und Digitalität] at the University of Würzburg.
+👓 in a curated subcollection:
+* [[German|German-Language Diskmags]]
+* [[East-Central European Diskmags]]
+* [[Russian|Russian-Language Diskmags]] (upcoming)
-Currently, five persons are involved in the project: Yannik Herbst, Johannes Leitgeb, Madlin Marenec, Torsten Roeder (as PI), and Tomasz Shtoryn.
+🎉 in an open subcollection:
+* 🖼️ [[Diskmags_Catalog:Gallery|Gallery of selected diskmags]]
+* 👩‍💻 [[Active_Diskmags|Currently active diskmags]] (upcoming)
+* 🛒 [[Commercial_Diskmags|Commercial Diskmags]] (upcoming)
-== Contact ==
+🔎 or enter a [[Special:Search|search term]]
+== News ==
+see also: 📖👩‍🏫 [[Diskmags_Catalog:Publications|Publications and Presentations]]
+===2025===
+* added [[Amiga Rulez]] (8 Jan)
+===2024===
+* updated [[Violence]] and [[Overshadow]] (6 Dec)
+* updated [[Scene_World|Scene World]] and [[Digital_Talk|Digital Talk]] (25 Nov)
+* curated subset of magazines from [[East-Central_European_Diskmags|East-Central European Diskmags]] is now available (25 July)
+* [https://irights.info/ iRights.info] released some helpful [https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11609237 slides] on legal implications of text mining diskmags (12 June)
+* [https://mastodontech.de/@noerdman Noerdman] released a webcomic about our project in the GI magazine, [https://web.archive.org/web/20240328213043/https://inf.gi.de/ see here]! (22 Apr)
+* paper at [https://dhd2024.dig-hum.de/programm-mittwoch-28-02-2024/ DHd 2024] (28 Feb)
+* plenary talk at [https://www.ized.uni-wuppertal.de/de/ag2024/ Edition als Transformation] (22 Feb)
+===2023===
+* talk at 37C3: [https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-11702-das_diskmags-projekt Das Diskmags-Projekt] (28 Dec)
+* added an Italian Diskmag: [[RUN]] (21 Dec)
+* added a Serbian Diskmag: [[Amiga Front]] (14 Dec)
+* conference paper published: [https://doi.org/10.18420/inf2023_95 Diskettenmagazine als Frühes Kulturerbe] (29 Nov)
+* updated the complete catalog (20 Oct)
+== Data ==
+=== Quantity ===
+* {{#ask:[[Category:Magazine]]|?Date|format=count}} disk magazines
+* {{#ask:[[Category:Issue]]|?Date|format=count}} single issues (including duplicate records)
+=== Quality ===
+* Curated subcollections belong to finished research projects. Data should be checked and complete.
+* Open subcollections are curated in a continuous process. Data is possibly incomplete.
+* Many issues still need to be checked, updated, or merged.
-Please do not hesitate to send any question to [mailto:info@diskmags.de info@diskmags.de].
+=== Availability ===
+* Data from this catalog is accessible through a REST API:<br />https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:REST_API
+* Raw datasets are available at our GitHub Repository:<br />https://github.com/zpd-digital-editions/Diskmags
-== Resources ==
+== Contact ==
-You can find a raw dataset at our GitHub Repository: [https://github.com/zpd-digital-editions/Diskmags https://github.com/zpd-digital-editions/Diskmags]
+If you like to help or if you have any question, please contact us: [mailto:info@diskmags.de info💾diskmags.de].
-There is an article available about the ideas of the project: Roeder, Torsten. „Rescuing Diskmags: Towards Scholarly [Re]Digitisation of an Early Born-Digital Heritage“. Magazén 1/3, June 2022, p. 139–58. [https://doi.org/10.30687/mag/2724-3923/2022/05/006 10.30687/mag/2724-3923/2022/05/006].
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