The Apple Media Archive hosted by DMG

A Hotline server filled with Apple events and commercials from the 1980s to today.

What is Hotline?

Hotline is a 1990s-era client–server system for sharing files and chatting in real time. Instead of a web browser, you use a Hotline client to connect directly to a server, browse its file areas, join chat rooms, and send private messages.

Client–server, not web or torrent based
Built-in file transfers, chat, and message boards
Organized around curated servers and communities

Hotline was originally developed by Big Red H Software. The Apple Media Archive is one such Hotline server, focused on Apple history and media.

How to connect

Open your Hotline-compatible client.
Choose “Connect”, “New Connection”, or “Add Server”.
In the Server / Connect / Address field, enter hotline.semihosted.xyz exactly as shown — do not add http:// or https://.
Connect, then browse the Files area.

The Hotline server is powered by Mobius.

You can also find this server listed on multiple public Hotline trackers:

hltracker.com:5499
tracker.preterhuman.net:5499
saddle.dyndns.org:5499
hotline.kicks-ass.net:5499

Recommended Hotline clients

Modern macOS: Hotline (open source)
Linux and Windows: Obsession (open source)
Mac OS 9 official client: Hotline Client
Mac OS X (PPC, early OS X): HotStuff!
Mac OS X 10.6–10.11: Nostalgia

What's inside

1980s: early Macintosh & Apple II era spots
1990s: PowerPC, Performas, Newton, original iMac
2000s: iPod, early iPhone, Intel transition
2010s+: modern keynotes and campaigns

Browse the Files area in your Hotline client for organized folders by decade and event.

This site is just a landing page. All content is served via the Hotline server at hotline.semihosted.xyz.