We just re-published The Lost Archives, a collection of 143 music disks and 2236 songs that had been removed from the archive years ago due to insufficient storage. You can view the file manifest or browse the files directly.

8088 MPH by Hornet, CRTC, and Desire wins a Meteoriks award. Great work Phoenix and Trixter!

Added YouTube cross-link ability, so embedded videos will now show up in search results. Still need to populate the catalog more. Jeremy Williams joins Hornet.

Added additional information about the Hornet Wikipedia page (original wiki markup and some extra notes), as well as the 'Demographics: Behind the Scene HD' featurette to the homepage.

The archive is now being fully self-hosted again. A most hearty thank you to Bryan Abshier for hosting the archive on his server for many years.

We now have SSL enabled by default so the NSA won't store your S3M music module preferences in their database. :)

General refresh of the site. Thanks for the feedback and input from the old crew.

Removed /code/images/ldpcxtga.zip (PCX and TGA image conversion) by author's request.

Confirmed both the SceneSP and Madtracker mirrors are no longer in service. Thanks to their admins for hosting and sorry to see them go.

We continue to try to revive the Hornet Archive Wikipedia page. Let's give a shout out to Josh Kellermeier for trying once again to appeal to the admins for reinstatement. Please contact us if you'd like to help with the effort.

The Wikipedia article about this archive is being recovered. It'll take some time to get it back up to snuff. Feel free to help out: Wikipedia Hornet Archive Recovery.

The SceneSP mirror at ftp.scenesp.org seems to have mysteriously disappeared. Anyone know what happened to it? We've disabled links to that site until it is restored (or maybe it is gone for good?).

The Wikipedia article describing this archive has been deleted by their admins, because all the info in it was "without a single reference to an independent source." We'll do what I can to get it back. Any Wikipedia experts / sceners wanna help lend a hand getting this important article out of "deletion review" status?

After a couple year outage, the Hornet Archive is back up at its original location, hornet.org. The official hosting site for this archive is still at hornet.scene.org, but we may put some updated content here.

Thanks to Brett Neely (GD) for hosting a demoparty in the SF Bay Area this past weekend.

Mind Candy Volume 2 was released last year.

Finally got the website back up. Mind Candy 2 (MC2) very close now.

DemoDVD Volume 2 getting close...

The following two songs were found to be corrupt, and removed from the archive:

• /music/songs/1998/z/zai-phar.zip (Pharao's Theme by Zaigamor of Breakthrough)
• /music/songs/1998/z/zai-swmp.zip (The Swamp by Zaigamor of Breakthrough)

Reverified archive mirrors:

• BE - Yannick Delwiche's MadTracker ftp site. Now has a complete copy of content. Syncing updates nightly.
• ES - SceneSP. Has an outdated copy of content, and I don't have any contact info for the maintainers.
• NL - scene.org. Has a complete copy of content, and is being sync updated nightly.

A fixed version of /music/songs/1996/k/k_lead.zip has been found, and the file has been readded to the archive.

• /demos/1993/t/tzpython.zip (Monty Python by Twilight Zone), updated party info, reflecting #1 demo at The Gathering 1993.
• /demos/1993/j/jungly.zip (Jungly Kitchen by Twilight Zone), updated party info, reflecting exhibition demo at The Party 1992.

• /music/songs/1996/k/k_lead.zip (Leadership by Astrid, .IT) was corrupt, and has been removed.
• /code/library/multikit.zip (Multimedia Library for xmode ops on GUS) was found by McAfee to have a virus, and was disinfected.
• Note: many directories have a web page index that is leftover from the old days. If you come across one of these pages, don't be surprised of many of the links are broken. I'm keeping those pages around for reference and historical purposes, but they aren't being updated. These pages aren't linked from this main page -- you'd have to go hunting to find them -- but I think some search engines still have links to them.

45 songs added from Mekka/Symposium 1997. /music/uncatalogged is no more.

16 new /graphics/images have been added to the archive. In a routine check of files in the database vs. files on disk, a few missing entries turned up. Most were from the Kernel 1997 graphics compo. These files were uploaded 6 years ago, but never got cataloged properly. Well, now they are.

Additional files cataloged: 20 songs from Takeover 1998, 33 songs from The Gathering 1998, 1 song from MOV97, and 34 songs from Remedy 1998.

Major site revamp. You can now limit general searches to a single subdirectory. The Suggestions feature has been added to highlight some of the best productions. Browse ability lets you inspect individual directories via FTP (see the 00_index.txt file in each dir). Some of the site links have been replaced with graphical buttons. Search output has been reformatted for better readability. Mind Candy Volume 2 is on the way, and there are even rumors of a Music Contest 7 in the works.

It's official. scene.org will be hosting hornet.org. All web and ftp content has been migrated over. Just waiting for DNS to kick in.

The archive has been saved! I've found places to host files and content, following the Apr 26 relocation.

This archive (web site and file server) will be going down before April 26th, 2003. Over the past year, I've been paying to host this machine out of my apartment. I'm moving, and hosting will not be possible in the new place. I want to keep this archive online, but don't know yet how it can be done. Stay tuned.