Just curious, what were the options as per have a real time clock (RTC) that as compatible with GEOS? So for, the only options I found was the Turbo Chameleon for the C64, of which isn't compatible with the C128. Then there's the SuperCPU by CMD, of which appears to be extremely difficult to locate.

Err that one didn’t come out ‘til 87, did it? and I don’t think mods existed in 85 either

Really Awesome Solution! 🤩👌🏻👍🏻

I’m still looking for an audio demo that I had back in maybe 88 or 90 that had the entire Kylie Minogue song “Je ne sais pas pourquoi (I still love you” spread across 4 or 5 floppies. It’s almost like this never existed. I have not been able to find this anywhere.

I have a bunch of PD and disk mags I will archive, I will let you know what I have.

Eat up martha

You don't even say how to launch non standard disks or show how to launch them

This is a really exciting project! I have a bunch of DevWare and CranWare numbered disks. Before today, I've seen barely any mention of them on the Internet. I created ADFs of all the still readable ones, but didn't know of a good place to put them. I'll have to go through and see if I have any that you're missing! The ones I have were gifted to me by a friend-of-my-father who was cleaning house. All hand written labels, so they were copies of copies...probably from the DC-area user group. As a kid, I recall there were several fun games, as an adult I find myself more interested in the random developer software and utilities...and I always loved the huge, beautiful 1.x-era Icons. IMO, this kind of stuff is some of the most important to archive, as it's at the highest risk of being lost forever. Later archives, like Aminet, were distributed on pressed CDs that are much more durable that floppy disks. There was also more centralization in those later years....Aminet, for a while, being one of the largest archives on the Internet.

I miss my C64

This is the most beautiful FPGA setup I have ever laid eyes on. I wish there somebody sold these already assembled since I am too novice to this myself

I remember a C64 version of "Lady Bug". It was called "Lady Tut"

Great video, thanks for sharing. You could replace that modern flat display with a nice Sony PVM. It will look even better.

I don't understand the point of that fan in that position Quella ventola in quella posizione non capisco il senso

I regret when I wasn't able to keep them, giving a pallet of mixed disks away. I since have acquired another pallet's worth but it has sat in my warehouse for years. At some point I will go through it.

There's so much politics and an ephemeral nature to the Internet, having a solid archive of this precious piece of history is important. I recall Nectarine demoscene radio being very compromised when the previous incumbant caretaker threw his dummy out because of what someone did/said, and the archive had to be rebuilt from a stream. Many of those music modules are impossible to find, so whilst the vast majority of the music is saved from the output, the modules themselves maybe lost forever. This is good work, thanks intric8.

But what about COMPUTE! In CA we had BMUG which had a monthly floppy. Those have now been archived on CDs you can order. There are also loads of retro user group docs on RSS feeds. The TI/99 user group community was huge and huge archives exist of all those newsletters in RSS feeds.

I'm glad you're organizing these by name of source. I remember my dad having a disk or two from some collective called "Amicus", that had some random stuff on them. I'm less interested in tracking down any particular program that was on them than I am in someday finding out who they were, how many disks they ended up putting out in total, and what all else was on them. So it's good to know that if you ever run across a collection, that they'll be easy to find.

Absolutely fantastic! But... Leave the source!

@29:31 It's an hour from me -- rhymes with "foots-town." But that's not important. What *is* important is the work you're doing. Thanks :)

Hey - any chance you could upload with left-right audio? Love the vid btw !!!

This is an amazing project! Thank you for all of your hard work in creating this. I was only thinking recently that it would be nice to digitise all of my floppies and give them to some sort of archive.

Have to look up some AMOK disc's. Amiga Modula-2 Klub 😂

Thank you, thank you, thankyou. I thought that I was the only person out there who was obsessed with collecting Amiga disks. It is not the software on the disk but the text files, stories and the insights into the Amiga culture that makes these disks so unique and enjoyable. A pirated game disks will have the same game as many disks but it will contain a different demo, scroller, or text file which gives a different glimpse of the past. Your work has opened the door so we can slip back in time and enjoy the creativity that flourished in the Amiga world.

I don’t remember seeing these in the UK. You could go to the library and get public domain software. There was a PC with a huge library on it and you had to buy their specific discs to copy onto. The PC could tell if you used your own discs. The library ones were about 2 quid if I remember correctly, so a bit more than twice the price of normal blanks.

Amazing work. Wonderful. Best wishes from Germany 🇩🇪

WOW!!! Thank you for doing this! I LOVE that you named your Chat A.I., Charlie.

I've got several of the AmigaAnimation disks around somewhere... I'll have to see if I have anything missing. I only have floppies tho. Also some other ones...

Danke!

Amazing!!! Keep up the excellent work your doing.

You could get some sampled audio out of PC compatibles back then by bitbanging the PC Speaker port, however, audio quality varied greatly and it was very CPU intensive. You certainly couldn't listen to sampled mod tracker music and play a game like Shadow of the Beast at the same time.

I used to download MODs from CompuServe to play them. Such goodness.

This is something I've thought about, not just for the US, but Germany (and by extension, the UK and other places) - many software collections on the net are limited to US-based software. What about *German* PD, disk mags, or simply *German-localised* software? I have scanned some manuals/third-party software guides, and I barely managed to get through one third of the floppy collection I got with my Amiga (most of them went bad after 30 years, sadly). My take on this is: If you have originals, preserve the documentation along with the disks. What good can the software be if nobody knows how to use it?

Truly spreading that Amiga Loooooooooooove. Catch you around Amiga Bill’s streams!

Good job man

The AtariST has an equivalent, but it seems to be on a crusty old FTP server. Probably needs to be mirrored in multiple places.

You are amazing. Thank you so much. ❤

Thanks

How cool! I loved my Amigas. I had a company called Micro R&D and we made the Bigfoot power supplies. What a great platform. Thanks for doing this!

Did I miss the power supply? Where does this plug in?

wow just found this, I was a huge Amiga nerd back in the day, I even had my own computer disk magazine in Denmark, unfortunately they got lost many years ago but this is huge nostalgia to me.

I only get "site not found" Did you get hit by a hacker too? Or just doing maintenance?

Thank you Eric for this huge and amazing work! A librarian/archivist sacerdoce! Thank you very much. He wanted to do the same with French Amiga magazine's cover-disk, so I'll do it for AmigaLove if you're interested 😉 AmigaLove and Amiga love forever! 🥰❤️😉

My right ear feels a bit left out! Your audio balance is a bit off to the left lol

The kind of project that puts real meaning behind "Amiga Love". Already sniffed around the new section of the site yesterday, and look forward to digging in more over time. Interesting with the use of ChapGPT, probably the first time I've seen it used for something useful, as I'm not someone who holds much respect for AI, at least in how most people are using it. Also, loved the off the cuff style of this video, showing the passion. Love that snowscape pic, gotta grab that one myself.

Don't remove anything. Every bit of information will be incredibly valuable in the future. What if we had libraries like this for the ancient times? That is why. The future is inevitable. Let the future see everything. - Much Gratitude For Doing This Service for Humanity.

I had the entire Fred Fish library

Most of these magazine disks were not created in large numbers so its amazing that some have even survived. Many times the buyer bought the magazine for its content not the disk. The disk may have even been copied over or discarded. How much longer will the survivors even be readable? Its important to get these survivors copied so the contents can be saved.

Imagine this for a IIgs :)

This is fantastic ❤

Great project. I still wonder what happened to all my Commodore and Amiga friends. We never had an official club with a name but would just meet about once a month at a Taco Villa where we would talk about our newest acquisitions, Commodore news, and plan copy sessions. Rarely did any of us buy the magazines that came with disks so these were never copied. Many of these magazines were from England and Europe and quite expensive.