I still use floppy disks regularly, I used it today on my Amiga A600.
@chainedenintenloup9 жыл бұрын
I'm still using them a lot on my old pcs. I have like 900 disks. I just love them. With all of these floppies, I can say that the newer one are really unreliable. My old 80's and 90's ones had a failure ratio of like 1 to 2% when I got them and who knows for how long they where not used. This year I didn't have any bad old floppy, but the newer ones just keep dying all the time so I use those till they die, it will save a couple of the old one for later. Great video.
@Djformula9 жыл бұрын
So much info about floppies I had forgot! Excellent video real retro feel and love the direction your videos are going.
@Tech-geeky4 жыл бұрын
Can never get too much info abut floppies.
@JoeBetro6 жыл бұрын
Thank you Dan for keeping the Amiga spirit alive! X
@GadgetUK1649 жыл бұрын
Great summary of floppies and their use on the Amiga there =) Rob Northern was quite famous for doing all sorts of protection schemes and special disk formats for floppies back in the day:- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Northen_copylock This video brought back a lot of memories for me - The cover disks with demos and sometimes full versions (Ocean released the full version of TFX for the Amiga as a cover disk). I spent a lot of time in my teens at a friends house copying Amiga games I wanted, using x-copy! He was lucky enough to know someone with BB access and he always had the latest games as soon as they were released.
@pferreira19835 жыл бұрын
That Cannon Fodder/Sensible Soccer game was terrific fun. Good times!
@Tech-geeky4 жыл бұрын
Its true.. Things HAVE never been so much fun :)
@pferreira19834 жыл бұрын
@@Tech-geeky They did a good job.
@rich081176uk3 жыл бұрын
I still think the xj220 music sounds great. The Amiga really was amazing. What a time to be a young kid back in the day. Amiga Vs st, Swapping pirated games at school and not forgetting son of stag 😂. Keep up the great work Dan. Love these vids.
@pacbilly9 жыл бұрын
These cover disks are yet another reason I wished I'd lived in the UK through the 90s.
@pacbilly9 жыл бұрын
A few booksellers imported the UK mags but they were very expensive.
@onlineamiga9 жыл бұрын
***** I feel for you. The magazines were our connection to the Amiga community. I used to dive straight for the letters page and write in many times myself hoping mine would get published. I'd hang outside the newsagents first thing in the morning to grab the latest Amiga Format and dive straight into all the new lovely software and games it came with.
@Nostalgianerd9 жыл бұрын
I had that lockable floppy storage box... what a beauty. I miss my bytes consuming a surmountable amount of space.
@Tech-geeky3 жыл бұрын
I forgot how many lockable boxes i went through.... mine always seemed to crack. My floppy disks lasted longer lol.
@treguard19829 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the video. Part of the experience for me was listening to the drive while waiting for programs/games to load. They often sounded quite tuneful! Seeing those clear coloured disks certainly brought back memories - I remember having that Cannon Fodder one :D
@treguard19829 жыл бұрын
treguard1982 Hehe let's be honest, I'd be surprised if there are any people out there who didn't have pirated games for the Amiga :)
@treguard19829 жыл бұрын
treguard1982 Spotted Mortal Kombat 2 there at the end. I could never get the first one to work, and it was ridiculous how many times you had to change the disk lol
@danwood_uk9 жыл бұрын
treguard1982 Yeah I maybe should have put a "this video glorifies piracy" disclaimer up, but yeah everyone I knew certainly did!
@treguard19829 жыл бұрын
Hehe I think you'll be fine ;) I did find it funny that it was someone at your dad's work too. Seems pretty common!
@RetroMMA9 жыл бұрын
Dan Wood (kookytech.net) In the US I was paying $14.99 for UK magazines (and I have over 100) but lets be real, piracy really did kill the Amiga in part. For every pirated game I had, I had 3 that I bought outright. I guess theses days it doesn't matter that much but it still makes me sad that both the consumers [pirates] and CBM themselves [also pirates] were so greedy.
@onlineamiga9 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the video Dan. Some brilliant memories brought back. Everything is just transferred through the internet these days and a lot has been lost as a result. I never had my disks sorted properly so would take me ages flicking through them all trying to find Disk 3 of Mortal Kombat and getting frustrated at the same time! Sadly dont have any of my old Amiga stuff anymore since leaving the UK many years ago and not being able to take it all with me, so it all ended up getting trashed :(
@gazmck9 жыл бұрын
I reckon I had pretty much every coverdisk you have shown I was always buying amiga mags ! Great memories
@Foebane729 жыл бұрын
After I got several Amiga floppies, I got fed up of flicking through them, so I developed a labelling system that used the top part of the disk to show the name, very much like the end labels on old NES cartridges. Worked a treat, especially when I went further with a colour-coding system to differentiate between games, utilities and so forth.
@FinePairofPollocks9 жыл бұрын
Thank you, such happy memories of disk protection and loaders that would punished even the toughest drive. There was a pd magazine that had amiga atari and pc all on one disk.
@hannibalsolo44099 жыл бұрын
I still remember wondering what the world was coming to when I bought my first PC without a floppy drive. Dystopian future indeed. Coverdiscs and tapes were one of the best things about importing expensive c64/amiga mags from the UK to Denmark.
@Tech-geeky4 жыл бұрын
Funny how the longer you linger on something, you wanna go back, how matter how irritating the sound of a floppy drive was... I guess that when today's emulation software like WinUAE, and FS-UAE (Mac), there are ways to disable the floppy sound permanently. As Amiga fans... you should be feeling sorry for yourselves :P
@Back2thefutureGaming9 жыл бұрын
great vid dan, brought back all the memories. I was one of those little scallies that pinched the cover disks. Terrible when i think back now at the ripe age of 40 lol..keep up the good work..never miss a vid.
@gary72carol619 жыл бұрын
Oh Dan thanks for this video, I have watched your videos for a while now and I feel just as much for the Amiga as you do. I laughed at the part where you showed us your favourite stickers for your blank disks here 15:00 but this point 15:15 that is exactly how I was about my stickers, I once bought a roll with about 500, can`t remember if I ever used them all, very much doubt it, but oh man great to watch that, it took me back just watching how much you miss those days, because I do too. By the way I am 43 years old, so I was there from the start of home gaming. I had a little box which was called Astro Wars, sniff sniff, loved it.
@GazzVille9 жыл бұрын
Great video Dan, brought back lots of memories!
@fastcars70167 жыл бұрын
Disks are cool to keep. Brings tons of memories.
@Zontar829 жыл бұрын
I had that datalux floppy box!ah the memories..very nice video,basiclly everyhing thatyou did or happened with tour floppies,happened to me as well at some point
@meetoo5947 жыл бұрын
I was one of those ne'er-do-wells that pinched coverdisks in the newsagents. The trick was to pretend to read it whilst stealthily tearing it off the cover and secreting it up your coat sleeve, remembering to put the mag back near the rear of the pile so as not to raise the shopkeepers suspicion. On a lighter note, I had loads of those transparent disks, the local wh smith used to stock em.
@AnalogX649 жыл бұрын
Here in Canada the Amiga 1000, 2000 and 500 where the popular models, never really saw the 1200 or 600. There are industrial Robots that still use floppies to store programming data and you can still buy them.
@Ekiwi3EnterprisesInc9 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the great video Dan, really takes me back! I still have all my floppies!
@Tech-geeky3 жыл бұрын
Your lucky.... I just like looking at them, now and say "gosh that would look soo dam good right about now" lol..
@madfinntech9 жыл бұрын
That was nostalgic to say at the least.
@AthenaNova17 жыл бұрын
As an American Amiga User, I bought quite a few Imported copies of Amiga Format and CU Amiga at the Bookstore chain Barnes & Noble. They cost between US$10-$15 each! I got them for the Cover Discs and to see how the Amiga scene was doing in the UK. I also often got Future Music for the Cover CDs it came with.
@NSG_UK7 жыл бұрын
I remember these so much, my brother had a habit of putting the floppy disks next to monitor or external speakers and all the memory was wiped of! In the end had to use xcopy over magazine cover disks from local retailer free of charge.
@Sodomantis6 жыл бұрын
The sound of the FFD makes my funny parts tingle. What sweet sound
@Tech-geeky4 жыл бұрын
So much so, you can even find KZbin videos of Commodore floppy drives lined up and play a song just using the floppy heads.
@alexstone70359 жыл бұрын
I recently found, in an old box of assorted floppies, a windows disk that had been wiped and used to pirate Superfrog. There's just something quintessentially Amigan about that.
@predcon19 жыл бұрын
Is there a Part Two coming? Something that explains the differences between IBM/PC and Amiga floppies, and why the Amiga disks made that distinctive sound when loading?
@onlineamiga9 жыл бұрын
I also printed my labels in almost the exact same way on a canon bubble jet printer! I actually paused the video to take a closer look at the disk, as for a second I thought you might have had one of mine there!
@Nostalgianerd9 жыл бұрын
Having just read that MagPi are giving away a free computer with their magazine. It feels like a good time to watch this and reminisce about the time when magazines came with free floppies. NOT Bloomin' Computers!!!
@Larry9 жыл бұрын
Those locks on those disk holders absolutely suck. all you need to do is twist or push the top to the right slightly and the catch comes out of the hole. But I had mine in plastic bags too until someone new bought a new pair of shoes and the box would be re-purposed for my disks.
@Tech-geeky2 жыл бұрын
aiding in preventing was always the aim.... Even a lock on a door won't defeat the determined thief.
@mjptrapster9 жыл бұрын
I have a box from a local school I was sent on sabbatical over to a few years ago. Brand new, shrink wrapped with blank school logo labels attached. The more rare one's I've got include some stamped with Birmingham City Council, 5x copies of Office 4.2 on floppy (that is a lot of discs!) and a lockable box full of Acorn floppies.
@Gooberslot9 жыл бұрын
You Amiga owners in the UK sure did have it a lot better.that us in the US. I only remember one Amiga magazine over here and it didn't come with disks.
@bfnut9 жыл бұрын
Well, I go back to 89. It was when I bought my first Amiga 500...snif, snif Before that was the commodore 64 and after the Amiga 1200...snif... ;)
@paulisthebest3uk9 жыл бұрын
I do remember the amiga coverdisks and the free software on them which made amiga format a very cool magazine to purchase, especially when they provided 100 quids worth of software, even though maybe there was a hidden agenda i dont know now i look back it lol. I do remember having to find blank disks to Expand the disks from the coverdisks (being a non-hdd amiga owner at the time). Fun memories
@Foebane729 жыл бұрын
One time I bought a game (Damocles) for the A500 which I had had on an older computer system, and my mother was outraged that I'd "wasted money" once again, so she took the disk and snapped it in two and declared that "that was the end of it". Not really, I simply fished out the remains and put the circular magnetic disk into a new plastic case - problem solved! Then there was the time that I got the demo "Beyond Belief" from demogroup "Noxious" - my mother was once again outraged when she saw on the disc, in one sentence, "Noxious Beyond Belief" - luckily this time she let it pass, but it was close!
@williamcadence Жыл бұрын
I had that exact copy of cannon soccer on the green floppy, seeing it took me back to my bedroom playing data storm and cannon fodder!!
@jothain9 жыл бұрын
Occasionally I get nostalgic when I see floppy disks. But then almost immediately I remember something like Monkey Island 2 or similar with one broken disk and nostalgy turns into almost pure hatred :D
@Tmuk29 жыл бұрын
I'll never forget having to swap disks 6 TIMES every time I went into the graveyard in Monkey Island 2 on my bog standard A1200!
@Tech-geeky4 жыл бұрын
it actually takes me LESS time to play Monkey island 2 from start to finish now on emulation on HD.. only 4 hours.... the rest was of floppy waiting/swapping time on my Amiga 500 back in the day.
@clintans9 жыл бұрын
Oh.. haha, I use to order software by checking list from magasinez, or just call them and pick software like candy and they would put them on floppys, then head in to town and pick them up. I also use to buy ready made utility disc. Bought a lot of english magazines even though we had Datormagazin in Sweden. Good times... And thank you for sharing this. :)
@jvidia9 жыл бұрын
Hello Dan! Great video!! I still love floppy disks! They are part of my memory! I still can resist when I see some MF2DD on sale ;) I buy all I can if they are still sealed. I cant use the modern solutions showed by you in this video. I'm a 100% retro lover ;)
@Tech-geeky4 жыл бұрын
i bet you can also resist when you get that annoying strain waiting and swapping too.. I know i do... But i still like to go back regardless. Give me the pain of wrist strain, i can take it.
@jvidia4 жыл бұрын
@@Tech-geeky nope at all!
@Tech-geeky2 жыл бұрын
I like nostalgic Amiga stuff, so forgive me anytime someone bringing out a new spiffy thing that connects via RS-232 port to turn a USB into a large floppy with as many games you can fit, i cringe... As good as that is, your lacking the old days of 'swapping floppies in and out, then waiting" (..not always patiently,..)🤬 but give me that anyday... If you start taking stuff away, how can you call it nostalgic ? Same reason why i prefer physically CU Amiga mags over digital ones.. Their just not the same,.. That's not a bad thing, but feeling the pages is always something you can never take away.
@MrFixer19839 жыл бұрын
I like to listing to reading sound of those floppy's ;)
@Tech-geeky3 жыл бұрын
I can understand ow people hate the sound.. it does grow on ya after a time... but it still sounds good.. I enjoy it.
@bent5409 жыл бұрын
shivers up my spine....
@Theshadowsnose9 жыл бұрын
I still regularly use floppy disks. Not on the Amiga because it's a real pain to write them on a PC, or better said to write data from the PC onto them on an Amiga. For the ST and the MSX you can simply write the images back to disk on a PC and use them on the real machine. No need for an 'expensive' Gotek emulator. I don't even think the Gotek works on those machines, so you would need an HxC2001 for them anyways which is even more expensive. I have an HxC in my A500 that I bought back in early '88 and I was so happy to get rid of real floppys on the Amiga. Allways hated them. Back in the days we bought them in bulk on the Cologne Amiga fair. They were quality brand disks (Sony iirc) but were completely unlabeled and came in white boxes of 50. The carton where those boxes came in was the only thing labeled Sony... I guess they were intended for mass producing (PD) software, but we happily used them to store our *cough* backups *cough*. Memories... I still remember buying my first pack of blanks. They were 50 bucks over here... the price of 5 Mastertronic games for the C64.
@theseob9 жыл бұрын
I also like to use floppies. But when one of my msx drives failed because of a worn out belt, and when it still didn't work after i changed the belt. I got myself a cheap china gotek imitation. After playing arround with the internal jumpers for a while, and rewiring the floppydrive cable, i did manage to get it to work on my philips msx2. So you can replace a msx drive with a gotek imitation drive, and it will work. I only need to add a second 5v dc because the drive is drawing a lot of current from the 5v line, make the screen flikker when accessing the drive.
@vollderdude9 жыл бұрын
great video! thanks for sharing your memories, everything sounds familiar to me :-)
@nanettemccrone254 жыл бұрын
I love my old games. And while I think gotek and who lost are brilliant nothing beats using the floppy disk love the sounds.
@JonnyInfinite9 жыл бұрын
Sensible Soccer, that takes me back. Remember the Gol-den Goal competition in the One for ST and Amiga?
@emsss786 жыл бұрын
My best days ever were when I had the Amiga 500 :(
@Vebinz9 жыл бұрын
I always liked them. Sure cd's are more convenient, but for their time they were sweet!
@RETRONuts9 жыл бұрын
I still have the demo disks you have there..;) I have one copy of Amiga Format, it was a specail copy from 1994 covering the end of Commodore. I don't use floppies anymore just use WHDLOad now..Great video BTW Dan,intersting.. The first mag I got was Amiga Format and it had Octmed floppy on it..:) You have my floppy box too... Datalux..still have mine with games and demos in..?
@alex76gr9 жыл бұрын
I loved floppy disks in their time, but now i can't bear or trust them any more.
@linusevosonic9 жыл бұрын
Jaguar XJ220 intro Theme in background :) Love that game!
@Tech-geeky4 жыл бұрын
I never did learn to play Hired guns... Call me a coward,, i just booted up just to listen to the intro music
@wrestletube17 жыл бұрын
Those little bliters were definitely horrific. Electronic Art's had some of the worst floopy reliablitys with Desert Strike failing on me before et took it to work and got it virus removed.
@GregProbert19719 жыл бұрын
Great video!
@andljoy9 жыл бұрын
oh them labels, had exactly the same ones on my A3010 had the same storage box too ( one in middle)
@JohnnyJTav9 жыл бұрын
I still have all my Amiga game discs in 3 double cases
@garyhart64219 жыл бұрын
I have 3 un-opened boxes of Translucent Rainbow Coloured Disks. 2 by Imation (neon) and 1 by Memorex which includes a Plastic Disk Box. I still have several hundred cover disks, lots of which I KryoFluxed for the SPS.
@sologals3619 жыл бұрын
The Amiga is awesome.The best low end model was the A1200.
@cybermaxpower9 жыл бұрын
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@Tech-geeky3 жыл бұрын
I dunno,,, I kinda miss the corrupted disks... and the read errors...Sounds strange today, but i guess the way to put it would be how kids today like Vinyl records.. particularly those with scratches because they think the scratches were part of the old days .. (....that still cracks me up every time i hear it>.)
@iainmclaughlan15576 жыл бұрын
You said you took your Amiga to school, wow. I remember the computers at University were not as good as the Amiga, I wish I asked if I could bring my Amiga into University as Easy AMOS was so much easier than Visual Basic in 1997.
@trydowave9 жыл бұрын
I have an upgraded A1200 hooked up to an LCD for no disk swapping, AGA titles of course and installing things on the CF. But when I want to go pure reto I ve got the ol A500 hooked up to a CRT with 3 Cumana External floppie drives. Most of my fave games came on 1 or 2 floppies so disk swapping isn't an issue. As for the failing of the disks. I don't seem to have that many errors either.
@nedmcfabulous37889 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the upload : )
@ep1phany62 Жыл бұрын
Remind me again, once you’ve finished playing an Amiga game, do you just turn off the system and then eject the disc? Or do you eject the disc and turn off the system?
@jonnyretro31289 жыл бұрын
I love them
@danhulson87038 жыл бұрын
i would appreciate,if you could show the alternative to disks on the atari ST like gotek drives i cant find no info on them.many thanks mate
@MrStephen1823 жыл бұрын
If the disks still work then that's all I use on my Amiga 1200.
@artnaim9 жыл бұрын
I love to play D/Generation :)
@kubignol9 жыл бұрын
Hi Dan. Thanks for your great channel! I discovered it when I was searching how to transfer files between a pc and a commodore Amiga or a 1541 disk drive (I finally bought a IDE-Compact Flash adapter; if you're interested, I can tell you more about it). You seem to have a huge knowledge about the 90's games. I watched recently the movie "Wreck it Ralph" and the "Sugar Rush" scene (kzbin.info/www/bejne/aaHSpIONqqZsidU) reminded me a game I saw at the time but I can't figure which game it was. So I have a challenge for you ;-) Maybe you could give me a clue? It was a scrolling platform game with some pink or pastel, transparent polygons as background. It could also have a bubble gum appearance. I thought it was Zool but when I saw some screenshots, the atmosphere didn't match with my blurred memories. It shouldn't be Quick 'n Silva or Rainbow Islands neither. Actually I'm not sure anymore that it was an Amiga game, maybe it was on the Snes... whatever. I've already watched all the 16 pages of screenshots of platform games on lemonamiga.com, but I didn't find a match. Sorry for my very poor description but that's all I can remember. So does it remind you something? Thanks!
@104d_3rr0r_vince9 жыл бұрын
I have many solutions for my micros but I always repair tape decks and drives cause I want them to function properly. There is nothing like loading from a tape/disk, the feeling is awesome and yes I did felt that smell you said. Btw fb sucks balls.
@bwack9 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the memories. The music at 12:51 sounds familiar. I think it must be one of the first modules I heard on the Amiga. Do you know what it is ? I wonder if it is from a game and not a demo..Edit: Double Dragon II !! Do you remember the floppy labels that you wrapped over the top of the disk and then after some time it would loosen from the rear side of the disk. Hated those labels so much :D
@danwood87029 жыл бұрын
bwack The mod is called Atmosphere, it was the intro music to Double Dragon II :) And yes, the labels I show in this vid have lost their adhesiveness over time and regularly do that, very annoying!
@bwack9 жыл бұрын
Dan Wood Thank you! The cool guys who had the early A500's (Kickstart 1.2, or 1.3 but with early chipset (OCS?)) could play Doube Dragon II, but on my A500 lines in that game were garbaged, and that awesome module in the background I guess thats why it stuck to memory.
@YoStu2428 жыл бұрын
Strange but I never had any problems with floppy disks, they always worked OK and not a single metal shield popped off lol
@Shot979 жыл бұрын
I'll use them as long as I can. They still make brand new ones. I use flash options for my consoles but I've never been impressed with floppy emulators. I think you're creating more of a pain with them. Sorting them, finding them,Deforming the look of the machine to get the wires of anemulator inside, changing the disks... If you have the disks and they work it's much more convenient using the real thing. On the Amiga itself, I'd never consider using an emulator unless I was forced to. The Amiga has the most unique sounding floppy drive ever. It has its own personality and the emulated floppy sounds are annoying by comparison and I don't understand why they're even there. But that does go to show you just how unique a sound it has, because no emulators have floppy sounds except for the Amiga ones. I don't understand it. People get the real deal because they don't like emulation... There's something not authentic about it and that's why we would rather have the real thing. The floppy drive is an integral piece of the hardware and to say emulation is fine when it comes to that just does not make sense to me. Using an emulator on the real machine... It's just another step away from having an authentic experience. With an everdrive you're dealing with carts... One cart for one game. It's simple , it makes sense... Real carts can get expensive... It's really your only option when it comes to getting some games to play on the real hardware. Floppy disks are plentiful, they are cheap, new ones will work for a long time, and you can get anything you ever wanted onto them. So many Amiga games are hard drive installable anyway... Some aren't unless you use another WHDLoad... Which, even if it is a program on the real machine, I think that's taking away from the real experience. But there are plenty of games that can be installed naturally onto a hard drive (any of the huge 4+disk games would be in this category) that it's really not a big hassle to deal with the ones that don't deal with AmigaDOS. The non DOS games usually feature even more unique floppy sounds that emulation will simply never even touch, not that they come close with the ADOS disk sounds either. Anyway, I'll use my disk drives until they break and I can't find a replacement for them or all the disks in the world become unreadable. Speaking of which, that's my biggest memory of floppy disks. The Read/Write Error. This became a huge problem with my Amiga disks in the mid-late 90's. Still not sure if it was the disks that were corrupt or if the drives were dead (sometimes they'd work in the external drive) but that sound is so unique and so horrifying to hear. Sometimes it starts but does not go through with the error... So you get the start of the sound, raise your eyebrows, get this sinking feeling in your stomach, only to experience relief once it loads anyway. The Amiga did seem to have the worst aging of any disks. Almost all my C64 disks still work (5 1/4 was the better disk) and pretty much all my 3 1/2 DOS disks still work... But almost all the Amiga disks died... Maybe... Again, not quite sure because I tossed most of them before I tried a new drive. But then again I also kept those disk near speakers so... But others tend to agree the Amiga disks break down quickly compared to others. They tried to get too much storage out of them and were writing to sectors other computers would not. Still, they did last a good 10 years even being by speakers so with my new floppy disks I'm going to see how long they last this time. So far, so good.
@optimalsupreme50809 жыл бұрын
wheres the portable 3.5 storage container lol
@robertallanmiller23634 жыл бұрын
Lol amazing
@amigachris9 жыл бұрын
I still have boxes and boxes of amiga floppies going back to "86 slowly getting rid on ebay. Never gonna use em...
@danwood_uk9 жыл бұрын
***** A lot of mine don't work any more sadly, I'd say at least 50%
@GazzJ829 жыл бұрын
Dan Wood (kookytech.net) Same here, although pratically all cassettes from the C64 and Spectrum still seem to be fine. Who would have thought they would outlive the floppy!
@Eddies_Bra-att-ha-grejer6 жыл бұрын
It sucks that it's so hard to get new DD floppy disks. Anyone who knows a good way to remove the old labels and glue when refurbishing old disks?
@Harp00nX9 жыл бұрын
if you want that label off the disk box, soak it in WD40 for 5-10 minutes to dissolve the glue then it will come off easily
@mickkiller9 жыл бұрын
Anyone remember the sensible soccer demo that had a bomb instead of a football?
@GazzJ829 жыл бұрын
I use my label printer nowdays, even though I have a A1200 with whdload, disks are still nice to have around. i1323.photobucket.com/albums/u583/gazj82/20150502_160945_zpsi0b85oyz.jpg
@TopSecretVid5 жыл бұрын
Tell you why I need to use one..today. I need to download an lha file and none of my Amigas are connected to the internet so I will download to a PC and save it to a floppy then put that floppy into my A4000 and boom.
@optimalsupreme50809 жыл бұрын
thats not a floppy the floppy is 5 and a quarter lol yeah thats memories yeah..,but those bring back memories anyhow. Amiga format was the way to go and the Christmas edition was always the way to go ,and yes Imagine was on the CHRISTmas Edition I got it that way too. lol er got it that anyhow.
@tedhughes92909 жыл бұрын
This video inspired me to make this poster. www.amiga.org/gallery/images/10949/1_Floppy_Mania.jpg
@TheStevenWhiting9 жыл бұрын
Banned from Facebook but you can't work out why :) talking about pirating games several times in this vid is probably why. AND yes I'm well aware you're talking about the Amiga scene in the 90s. But the fools at Facebook probably assume you are talking about current pirating :) so any mention of pirating games on Facebook is probably what got the ban.
@danwood_uk9 жыл бұрын
Steven Whiting I only made this video yesterday and the Facebook ban happened about 5 weeks ago, so unlikely. This hasn't been posted on Facebook. I have a feeling it could have been discussing the formula for retro-brite though!
@TheStevenWhiting9 жыл бұрын
Dan Wood (kookytech.net) I didn't really me it was related to this video, I meant if this video was anything to go by, then discussions on Facebook may have been the issue. Because Facebook doesn't appear to be aware of the 80s & 90s computer scene :) And although it was wrong, the visits to the local car boot sales where you'd find a stall selling towels that was their "front" as they also had pirated games they sold. Those were the arsehole pirates, the ones that sold the games. I enjoyed floppies when we had nothing better. They now just have a nostalgic feel. I remember our lecturer at college making the mistake of telling us "Keep your floppies away from radiators as they'll damage the disk". So any time I'd not done my course work, that excuse would rear it's head :)
@bwack9 жыл бұрын
Steven Whiting I remember all my friends who had C64 and the Amiga copied disks for free, and we always had a steady stream of new games (demos and utilities) because there would always be someone in our friends network who had contact with crackers and traders often through snail mails. Not so much downloading from BBS systems using modem. They were quite slow to download from in the beginning. We bought discs in 100 pcs bulk, or dive into containers in the industrial places where we found tossed disks. Some worked and reformatted well..
@TheSeanBean9 жыл бұрын
Dan Wood (kookytech.net) Don't worry about mixing up a formula. I just have been using Jerome Russell Bblonde 40 VOL 12% Peroxide, which you can buy in the high street. I could not find the other stuff in shops. I've done a A1200, C64, SNES & Dreamcast. Works really well. Paint on then cover with climfilm and sit outside. Like the video. I remember having a Power Computing HD disk drive. 1.76Mb - ummmm nice. I also noticed how tapes seem to now be more reliable than disks.
@SlavomirG9 жыл бұрын
in all honesty floppy disks were shit. you could go to a friend with 20 disks, spend a lot of time x-copying games just to go back home and find out disk 5/7 of this game is corrupt and disk 2/5 of this other game is corrupt too....so u copied 12 of this fuckers for no reason. obviously no love and nostalgia from me :P
@mellul17019 жыл бұрын
The good old days of floppy disks. These days they get a bad rep for their reliability, but I have to admit back in the day I didn't have much issues even with it came down to those 10 + disks adventure games. For some nostalgic reason I still have them. That being said they didn't age well , most of them just do a scary squeaky sound when I try to use them. Nowadays I use and HXC floppy drive (kinda similar to a gotek). kinda sorted that issue for good.