Amiga Disk Mags

[Malc]

Hiya guys, long time no see

Anyway ALE is now safe and warm in it's new home and we once again update the content with some Disk Magazines for those that are interested (a fair few according to post on this very board not long ago)...here they are:

Channel Z - Issue #1 (A1200 Disk Mag)
Channel Z - Issue #3 (A1200 Disk Mag)
Channel Z - Issue #5 (A1200 Disk Mag)
Grapevine Issue #18 (Disk Mag)
Grapevine Issue #19 (Disk Mag)
Mag E Issue #1 (Science Fiction Disk Mag)
Mag E Issue #2 (Science Fiction Disk Mag)
Mag E Issue #3 (Science Fiction Disk Mag)
Total Irrelevance Issue #5 (OctaMED Disk Mag)
WAC Issue #1 (Amos Disk Mag)

Enjoy.

www.commodore-ale.com - just in case you forgot.

[MethodGit]

When is Mr Big's long expected update to Amiga Coverdisks coming then? It's been a very long time coming!

Well of course my game list is larger than this site's
but thanx for the tip.

As for the disk-images...

[Malc]

"Well of course my game list is larger than this site's
but thanx for the tip. "

Not sure which way to take that mate? an insult or a compliment anyway Mr Dig! is meant to be updating his site soon, the FTP is working again as most of you know so the ball is in his court right now.

More Disk Mags etc coming.

Well, last week I finished my final school project and now I only have to prepare myself for a presentation.. So I have some more free time the following weeks..

Anyway.. This week I started again with my Coverdisks site.. I still have many many coverdisks which aren't on the site yet... Furthermore I'm planning to add scans of all the actual magazines I own.. I already scanned all my Amiga Action issues..
And I want to make my site viewable for all users, so that people owning real Amigas with internet can view my site.. Several people reported this problem.. So, currently I'm redesigning all the navigation menu's. When all this is finished then you can expect an update.... So my next update will be:
- Amiga Action magazines cover- and diskscans
- Some new coverdisks (Amiga Action, The One, Amiga Computing)
- Non java navigation menus..

I can't say when this update will be finished, depends on several things... I surely hope before the end of this month...

Regards, and I want to thank all the people who have visited my site for the last couple of months even without any updates...

ps. If you, Malc-ALE, want to post this message on commodore-ale.com then go ahead..

Ooppps.. forgot I can post news at commodore-ale.com by meself.. so I will do that...

[Twistin'Ghost]

Very cool...I always get butterflies in me stomach when I learn that there will be an update to yer site! Ebay has been flourishing with lovely Amiga mags and their accompanying disks over the last month or so and I have been coveting them. But the fact that I am in the states and these mass lots are overseas, it's just not in my budget to afford such shipping, so I have to watch these juicy bundles fly away. Quite heartbreaking.

Thanks for the complement Twistin' Ghost! And I know what it is.. When I see such nice Amiga related material on several sites I always want to buy it all.. But that's not possible I'm afraid..

[Akira]

I have to get some stuff for you mate, I have a bunch of The One coverdisks that want a home in your site

I was away for the weekend so I couldn't reply any faster..

Thanks for the offer Akira! I'm looking forward to your The One coverdisks.. The One is my favourite mag actually.. Can you mail me or tell me in this tread which disks you have and how do you want to send them over?

[Akira]

I have to check at home. I think I lost only one coverdisk (January 1993, Psycho Santa on the cover ((( ), the rest are there. They all date from 1993 and ahead. Off the top of my head, I think I have:

November 93
December 93
January 93
February 93
March 93
December 93
January 94
February 94

errrr.. some might be wrong, I gotta check. They are about 10. I'll let you know when I dump them.

Oh, now I remember I deleted the Aladdin demo coverdisk too.. What a twat!!! arghhhhh, all for the red transparent disk

Wow! These The One disks would be really cool! You mentioned december 93 twice, I hope you meant december 93 and 94 because if I remember it well the demos of december 94 rocks! (Rise of The Robots, Mortal Kombat, etc..) I still blame myself for not buying that issue..

Well, not bad you only miss 2 disks, I also lost a couple of disks because I didn't store all the disks very well..

Anyway, I'm looking forward to your disks!

[Akira]

After I wrote the first December 93, all the rest should be 1994/ Stupid brain! :P

Yep, Ive got that issue. Mortal Kombat 2 and Rise of the Robots in the cover. Oh, and a demo of an unreleased Thalion game nicknamed Fighter X, or something. That issue has a cool MK2 poster.

I remmeber the covers and disks more than most, though I dont know the exact dates. I'll give you a detailed description whenever I get home.

Great that you have The One issue December 94! Finally there is someone who has these disks

A bit strange that X-Fighter is on a coverdisk of December 94 because this unreleased game is also on a The One coverdisk of April 95.. This disk can be found on my site already...

[Twistin'Ghost]

I may have that The One coverdisk with Psycho Santa on it. Once my disks arrive, I too will be contributing some missing gaps in your coverdisk library. Unfortunately, I don't have a listing of which disks I have, but it's quite a pile.

[Akira]

MrDig, I confused the disks then :P See, I told you I have bad memory for that stuff... however when I take a look at the library I automatically remember the content of each mag! Strange, that.

I checked various mags and I believe there was also a demo of Super StreetFighter 2 on The One issue december 94.. Well, I'll just wait and see..

And thanks for the offer Twistin' Ghost! I'm looking forward to your The One disks also! Psycho Santa sounds nice

And before I am going to press the submit reply button I just wanted to say that I finally updated my coverdisk site!

These are all the new goodies (for detailed updating info just visit my site...):

- Non java navigation bars
- Changed layout a bit (fonts, colors, html-code)
- 3 Amiga Action issues and all available coverscans and diskscans!
- 8 The One issues
- 2 Amiga Power issues and various scans...
- 4 Amiga Computing issues

Phew! I'm glad I've finished this update before the end of june as promised... Now I am gonna focus on adding more disks, coverscans and diskscans...

I hope you all like it and if one of you has some tips and/or suggestions, just mail me or respond!

[Akira]

Great!!! AN UPDATE!! excellent Mr Dig

As for the coverdisks... I can confirm that the Dec94 issues doesnt have a SSF2 demo.... I just checked

Since I am here I will tell you which coverdisks I really got, as well as its contents:

Mar 92 [old ed, named as 'The One Sneak Previews Disk Nr 8]
INdy Heat Demo, Fuzzball Demo,

Apr 92
Space crusade Demo
Parasol Stars Demo
MS Gold and Snooker savestates, or something.

Nov 93:
Disk a - Uridium 2 Demo
Disk b - Hero Quest 2 Demo / Zombie Apocalypse PD
Disk c - Seek & Destroy Demo / Project Buzzbar PD

Dec 93
Disk a - Alien Breed 2 Demo
Disk b - Brian the Lion Demo / Bob's Bad Day Demo

Jan 94
Disk a - Galactic :Xmas remix [full game]
Disk b - Zool 2 Demo / Beetle PD game [full? kind of]

Feb 94
Disk a - Beneath a Steel Sky Demo
Disk b - Super Methane Bros. Demo

Mar 94
Disk a - Benefactor Demo / Ork Attack PD / Polymorf PD
Disk b - Championship Manager Italia Demo / Premier Picks PD

Oct 94
Disk a - Alien Breed : Tower Assault Demo / Zonked! Demo
Disk b - Sensible World of Soccer Fancy League Demo

Nov 94
Disk a - Aladdin Demo (grrr I deleted this one!)
Disk b - Embryo Demo

Dec 94
Disk a - Rise of the Robots demo
Disk b - Mortal Kombat 2 Demo

Jan 95
Disk a - Jungle Strike Demo (A1200)
Disk b - Holiday Lemmings 94 Demo
Disk c - Super Skidmarks 2 Demo / Base jumpers Demo

Apr 95
Disk a - X-Fighter preview
Disk b - Flight of the Amazon Queen demo

Other assorted coverdisks I still have...


Amiga Computing April 1994
Disk a - Kindwords 3 full proggy [disk one]
Disk b - Kindwords 3 part two / CLiVA

Amiga Power Disks 10 and 11

Amiga Computing, issues 45, 46, 47, 49

Amiga Format disks 31, 32,

Amiga Action disks 26/26

Amiga User INternational Superdisk 28


I must have lost about ten coverdisks though (( Anyway, that's what Ive giot and Ill try to give you anything you dont have.

Cheers,

[MethodGit]

Thanks VERY much, Mr Dig, for adding some more (obscure?) coverdisks to your page, and also for the new inclusion of disk/magazine scans. If only it was possible to scan EVERY page of these magazines, we'd be able to possibly recreate the original mags...

I'd also like to thank Akira for still having the "The One Amiga" Jan 94 (I've been looking for that disk!) and Dec 94 (I remember having these, don't know if I still have them today though) disks!! And for having another The One disk that I didn't know about (Apr 92)!!
If memory strikes me though, Akira, I swear that the Base Jumpers demo is actually on Disk B (with Holiday Lemmings 94) of the Jan 95 issue! Do you have a completely different copy to mine?

Now, though I'd ask you this, Mr Dig. Have you been given the following coverdisks yet?

The One
Jan 94
Disk A - Mr Nutz, Clockwiser, Ouch!, Tanx 'n' Stuff
Disk B - Puggsy, Xmas Time
Disk C - Banshee, Waggle-O-Mania II, Smidge

I remember having that issue and the disks, but I'll have to check to see if I've still got those disks...

CU Amiga
Sorry, don't know what the dates on these disks were, it doesn't mention a date on the labels
Disk 18 - Demo-Maker, Moonstone, Superecho, Time Set
Disk 19 - Lotus II, some special printer driver, Trippen, Power Pong, plus some docs, a picture-of-the-month & a tune-of-the-month
Disk 21 - Cubulus, DLock, plus an anti-disk device & a picture-of-the-month

(I actually have these CU Amiga disks on real disk format (what's more, I only just received these disks a few weeks ago after I bought some disks from a car boot sale. I luuurrvvee car boot sales, me ) but I don't have a null-modem cable or any software/hardware stuff to turn my disks into ADFs, sorry )

I also remember having another CU Amiga disk containing playable demos of Lotus III and Silly Putty (I'll check to see if I still have it). Do you have this disk?

Also, from that car boot sale, I have a coverdisk from some unknown magazine (no proper label, it was a hand-written one mentioning only the demos) which features two playable demos: Blood Money & Prehistorik.

About Amiga Power 64: I have this disk, but, as you may have read already, I am unable to transfer it as of this time. The disk can actually be found at some obscure FTP containing *almost* all the Amiga Power disks (click here), but when I tried to copy the game to a hard-disk (the Amiga way, of course), the (emulated Amiga) system reported detecting some checksum error in the executable (I could still copy it using ADF Opus and/or ADF Explorer in Windows though, so that's not a problem). Now I'm not sure if this checksum thingy was on the original disk (it didn't prevent the game from running though), I jsut thought that maybe you should be given a disk that had *no* errors of any kind whatsoever, that's all.

Another question: does anyone remember the magazine Amiga Mania? This one was rather obscure, even in the UK where I bought it from. Its coverdisks were mostly full games (I don't remember seeing any commercial demos on their disks at any point), featuring the likes of Brainball (from the first issue), Dungeons Of Avalon 1 & 2 (seperate from each other of course), Crazy Sue 2, Ramses, plus some other game I remember which, oh no!, I've completely forgotten the title of. I don't have a detailed enough description of this game for you to help me out here, but all I remember of it is that it looked futuristic, and you could choose to play the premade levels or make your own, and it had really cool music (a bit of it I still remember) and before each level started you got some green fireworks and a small message at the bottom giving you some short details about the level and then telling you to press fire to start or something. But that's all I remember of it, sorry.

Also, does anyone remember an Amiga/PC/ST magazine called Public Domain? It always had a mixed-format disk that you could run through your Amiga or PC or Atari ST, and there was different content for each computer on the disks. I have at least one working Public Domain disk (from the car boot sale), although it's a different one to the disk I had a dozen years ago.

Three more questions for Mr Dig:

1. How come I am apparently "forbidden" from entering the The One September 1991 page and from downloading the AP63 disk?
2. You know those pages where you said about a disk "Unavailable, blah, blah, blah, please send it to MrDig@hotmail.com"? Well, have you received any of those disks that you previously asked us to send now?
3. Why don't any of the coverdisks have a .NFO file and a file_id.diz file in the zip anymore like a lot of the Amiga Power coverdisk zips featured?

I may have some more obscure coverdisks as well, I will check them for you as soon as possible.

Once again, congrats very much, for such a great and hugely interesting mixed-content update package for us this week.

[Akira]

Hey, that Mr Nutz demo sounds neat. However it CANT BE January 1994, since, if you look above, I have that mag and it is not the same. You must be confusing months or years.

BTW, You could be right Marz, I added teh Base Jumpers demo wherever I wanted, really Since it doesnt appear in the coverdisk labels (it was a stop-presser!), I figured it out Id put it in disk C

You could send us the disks so we dump them and tehn return them to you, if you cant transfer them. I'd take good care of them, promise

[MethodGit]

Okay, I didn't mean to say "Jan 94" in there, you are right. I think the disks must be from the "Christmas 94" issue, unless The One didn't do any Christmas issues, did they?

[Akira]

Nope, the special chrimbo issue was always the January issue. So you are confusing something there.

[MethodGit]

Damn! I SWEAR those disks exist, seriously. Hmm, maybe it was "April 94" or something, I don't know! However, it MUST be a Christmas issue, because Disk B features a christmas game, don't it?

Okay, I've decided I will find these disks and check for you...

I just found these up in my attic.

AMIGA COMPUTING
Workstation
July 91
September 91
November 91
January 92
March 92
May 92
June 92
August 92
October 92
December 92
February 93
October 93
November 93
April 94
August 94
September 94
October 94
November 94 (2)
Xmas 94 (2)
March 95
November 95

Amiga Format
Disk 14
Disk 16
Disk 17
Disk 18 (2)
Disk 19
Disk 20
Disk 21
Disk 22
Disk 23
Disk 24
Disk 26
Disk 27
Disk 28
Disk 29
Disk 30
Disk 31
Disk 38b
Disk 60b
Disk 67a

AUI
User Disk 2
User Disk 3
User Disk 4
User Disk 5
User Disk 6
Super Disk 9
Super Disk 10 (2)
Super Disk 13
Super Disk 14
Super Disk 30
Super Disk 45
HyperDisk 11

Amiga Shopper
Issue 33
Issue 34
Issue 36
Issue 47
Issue 49
Issue 50
Issue 51
Issue 52 (2)
Issue 57
Issue 60
Issue 61

Commodore User
Disk 32
Disk 100

If you want any I'll ADF them, otherwise they meet the format command.

Allright... First things firts then..:

I'm glad you all like the update! Thanks!

Well, I will reply to your posts then:

Akira:

I already have the following disks of THE ONE:
Mar 92 (But I don't have detailed information about these disks and I also don't have the cover and diskscans.. So that would be nice! )
Oct 94
Nov 94 (I do have the Aladdin disk, but I can't make it work with WinUAE..)
Jan 95

So I don't have the disks of the following The One issues:
Apr 92
Nov 93
Dec 93
Jan 94
Feb 94
Mar 94
Dec 94
Seems great demos to me on these disks, so these disks would be VERY nice! And some detailed information with them would be EXTREMELY nice !

I already have the disks of Amiga Power 10 and 11 but (again) some more detailed information of these disks would be welcome!
I can't tell at the moment if I have the other disks you mentioned.. (Amiga Computing, Amiga Format, Amiga Action, Amiga User International), because I'm currently not at the right place where I can check this.. I will sort these disks out tonight..

MarzAttakz:

I'm afraid I don't have the time to scan every Amiga magazine... For now I will focus on scanning the front covers and the diskscans, but if someone has a special request (Like Graham in another post) just say so and I will see what I can do for you...

And Basejumpers and Holiday Lemmings can indeed be found on January disk B. This disk is already available on my site..
As for The One Jan 94, Hmm... a bit weird just like Akira said there must be some confusion because you both mentioned the same month with different games.. Well, I would like to have them both then! Maybe there is some difference? (Wrong month? Bonus disks?) Does someone know?

I can't check the CuAmiga disks you mentioned right now, I'll check them tonight...
Hmm.. The disk you mentioned with no proper label... Just send it over and I will check it out...

And indeed, I also have the corrupted Amiga Power disk 64 you mentioned.. I know the PD-Game Blob is on this disk, but I can't even get it to run with an Amiga Emulator! So could you tell me which configuration you use to get this game running?

And I don't know the mags Amiga Mania and 'Public Domain'.. I do have some disks of some other rare magazines though... I will add them eventually in the future... But if you have disks of Amiga Action and/or Public Domain then I'm interested of course! Every coverdisk is interesting!

Well, I'll give answer the three questions you mentioned:
1. Fault of mine... The non-java menu link to The One september 91 is working now.. The Java link isn't working.. I'll fix it tonight.. Thanks for reporting! But I don't know what's wrong with the AP63 disk though.. Hmm.. I'll check it out tonight..
2. Well, If you still see 'unavailable, please send to...' then I still don't have these disk! So the answer is no, I haven't received any of these disks..
3. About the .nfo and file_id.diz files you mentioned. I didn't make these docs, One guy named KnucklesD have made these disk, so it was easy for me to add them.. I takes too much time for me to make 1 .nfo and 1 file_id.diz for each coverdisk.. But if someone is willing to do this for some coverdisks then I would be very grateful.. Just send the nfo/id.diz files over and I will include them within the zips...

Thanks for your support and I'm looking to your disks!

Khephren:

Thanks for looking for some coverdisks! Anyway.. I can't check right now If I have these disks or not... I'll check them out tonight...

Thanks for your support guys!

Well, I have sorted out all your disks (Akira, MarzAttakz, Khephren) and I actually don't have a lot of the disks you mentioned! So it would be great if I could get my hands on these disks you all offered.. We have now sorted out the disks which I don't have, but how are we going to transfer all these disks? Any ideas?

The disks which I don't have then:

Akira:

The One coverdisks (and perhaps some information about the disks):
Apr 92
Nov 93
Dec 93
Jan 94
Feb 94
Mar 94
Dec 94

And perhaps detailed information of The One coverdisks:
Mar 92

Amiga Computing coverdisks:
- April 94 Disk a (I already have Disk b)
- Issues 45, 46, 47

Amiga Format:
- Disk 32

Amiga Action:
- Disk 26

Amiga User International:
Superdisk 28

MarzAttakz:

The One:
Jan 94 (+ descriptions if possible) (Apparently a different disk as Akira mentioned, but I would like it anyway, because I don't have it!)

CuAmiga:
Disk 18, 19, 21

Don't know if I have the Cu disk with Lotus III and Silly Putty, I don't have the time right now to check all my CuAmiga disks.. (87 disks..)

Public Domain:
- Any disk you have

So you do have some disks which I don't have yet, but you don't have the software to make adf's of them? Hmm.. Maybe in the near future you can?

Khephren:

Amiga Computing:
Workstation
July 91
September 91
November 91
January 92
March 92
May 92
June 92
August 92
October 92
December 92
February 93
October 93
August 94
September 94
October 94
November 94 (2)
March 95
November 95

Amiga Format:
Disk 14
Disk 16
Disk 17
Disk 18 (2)
Disk 21
Disk 23
Disk 24
Disk 28
Disk 30
Disk 60b

AUI
User Disk 2
User Disk 3
User Disk 4
User Disk 5
User Disk 6
Super Disk 9
Super Disk 10 (2)
Super Disk 13
Super Disk 14
Super Disk 30
Super Disk 45
HyperDisk 11

Amiga Shopper
Issue 33
Issue 34
Issue 47
Issue 49
Issue 50
Issue 51
Issue 57
Issue 60
Issue 61

Commodore User
Disk 32
Disk 100

Well, that's it!

[|cy[ool]

Hmm, just scrolling past and noticed Khephren blabbing about a FORMAT command...don't u dare!!!.
TOSEC is currently in the process of acquiring a bunch of coverdisks for redump, we have about 6-700 on their way to us thru a few auctions and private collections. I don't know the contents as yet, but it should clean up a few of the 734 currently in the tosec Amiga Coverdisk DAT. Naturally, the more the merrier, so if anyone would like to dump their coverdisks and submit them to TOSEC, that would be great.

Blabbing?! I was trying to state that I need the disks more than the contents as regards to coverdisks.

Ok I won't format them.

They make better tea coasters and frisbees!

[|cy[ool]

GRRRRRRRRRR, ur winding me up

Disks these days aren't worth shit, except for whats on them

By the way, i would like ur upd gold and level 6 sometime, i have a few cd's worth trading :P

[Photon]

Anyone know a company that sells 880K (DD) 3.5" disks nowadays? If you know a company in Sweden, all the better for me.

[TheCyberDruid]

Thread necromancing

Originally Posted by Akira

Mar 94
Disk a - Benefactor Demo / Ork Attack PD / Polymorf PD
Disk b - Championship Manager Italia Demo / Premier Picks PD

I know the chances are slim that you can remember/still have that disk, but is the version of Ork Attack on disk A the same as this HOL entry : http://hol.abime.net/5384 ?

Hmm... I think they may be different games. I don't recall the title screen or the sword in the coverdisk version. It has been ten years since I played the game, so I may be wrong.

Edit: The One Amiga coverdisk appears to be the first version that was distributed on the 17 Bit Software #2838 disk. Amiga Magazine Rack indicates it was reviewed in The One Amiga and Amiga Force. It indicates that Ork Attack: The Return was reviewed in Amiga Point of View #3.