A500 original demo disks - Page 2

stainy · 27 September 2008, 14:50

Whoa!! yes!1 these ARE the ones I`m on about.. and have been for a few years now!
I have disk 2 and 3 adf`d plus I have a few of these disks... but I`m pretty sure they have been wiped and written over. If the adf`s would turn up then I could adf them with my catweasel...
Nice to know I`m not alone heh

here`s what I have.

27 September 2008, 23:43

Just found this post - I still have 6 of the original 10 disks that was distributed by Silica with my original A500 many moons ago. I still have Disk 1 (Animated Sound and Graphic Demos), 3 (Arcade Action and Much More), 5 (Slides), 6 (Digitised Demos), 7 (Useable Demos) and 8 (Ham pics).

BTW I see you used disk 10 as a sound tracker samples disk :-)

I'll see if I can ADF them if you are interested (not sure whether there are any read errors - they are nearly 2 decades old now <sigh>).

stainy · 28 September 2008, 09:01

darby

yes please could you adf them.. .. I`m also interested in the disks themselves.. you want to part with them??

28 September 2008, 13:18

stainy - I'll have a go at ADF'ing the disks later and I'll upload. If they all go Ok I wouldn't mind parting with the original disks as I can make a copy.

Bought back quite a few memories reading through the post, especially the colour cycling Heart demo and the Colorado skiing sample.

stainy · 03 October 2008, 10:55

Hhaha yeah... still can`t quite remember it... think it`s ` Be above the rest in Colorado` something.
I`ll take those disks off you

that would be brilliant... I can swap something or paypal you some ?

stainy · 16 October 2008, 11:43

Any news?

16 October 2008, 20:15

I'm not precious, so PM me with details if you want them :-)

However, good and bad news. I tried to ADF the disks and 3 worked and 3 didn't. However, I tried this on an A1200 I acquired from eBay and the floppy isn't great so it may just be the unit.

I'll twin the 3 over to my laptop and upload to the Zone later. Having said that, the 3 I can't ADF actually boot, kinda, with a few read block errors, so conceivable you could trackFix them and reimage.

FTR Looking at the contents, they seem to be a collection of stuff from the original Fred Fish PubDomain disks.

hit · 21 October 2008, 13:40

if you have a spare pc with two 3.5 floppy drives you can try using adfread:
http://www.winuae.net/frames/download.html
http://www.winuae.net/files/adfread-1.1.zip

this one needs additinaly a tiny driver:
http://simonowen.com/fdrawcmd/
http://simonowen.com/fdrawcmd/FdInstall.exe

adfread will read bad tracks on its next run. this can repeated as offten as required. offten gives good results after a couple of retries.

stainy · 26 October 2008, 23:18

Why does adfread need two floppy drives? Amiga disk goes in one.. pc disk in the other.. and it creates an .adf ? does it create it on the pc floppy disk then ?
Just tried getting two floppies working on my machine... it`s not having any of it!

Bugger.. sold my catweasel because it wouldn`t work.. this doesn`t work.. i`m destined not to get anything working

Hewitson · 29 October 2008, 04:34

darby try to copy the files onto a good disk and then adf that. If you are lucky the bad sectors will not have anything stored on them, or if they do it may be replaceable.

Tolls · 29 July 2010, 14:26

I know this is an old post, but I wondered if these Silica Demo disks ever made it to the zone?

Cheers!
Tolls.

stainy · 22 August 2021, 20:47

I don`t think they did.. I`m still after 4, 6-10

stainy · 18 January 2022, 17:46

Still after these disks

stainy · 09 February 2022, 00:16

Almost twenty years to the day!!! amazing. Thanks to a wonderful fella on r/amiga I now have all the 10 images. He scanned the disks as well.. I`m going to clean them up, print them and make new disk labels. I`ll image the adfs back onto real floppies!!

Jope · 14 February 2022, 17:24

Could you upload the ADFs to the Zone, or some other place please?

stainy · 14 February 2022, 17:44

They are on archive.org

Jope · 15 February 2022, 10:00

Excellent, thanks. :-)

stevsurv · 16 February 2022, 00:23

Quote:

Originally Posted by stainy

They are on archive.org

Just wondering what to type into search to find these on archive.org?

stainy · 16 February 2022, 02:02

Quote:

Originally Posted by stevsurv

Just wondering what to type into search to find these on archive.org?

Link

Go about two thirds down the page

scuzz · 16 February 2022, 02:15

I did a blog about the disks as I had 9 out of the 10 and then created disk 4. All the stuff is generally on Fred Fish disks.

https://www.scuzzscink.com/amiga/scu...ary22_0901.htm

27 September 2008, 14:50	#21
stainy Zone Friend Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Concord, NC, USA Age: 52 Posts: 1,712	Whoa!! yes!1 these ARE the ones I`m on about.. and have been for a few years now! I have disk 2 and 3 adf`d plus I have a few of these disks... but I`m pretty sure they have been wiped and written over. If the adf`s would turn up then I could adf them with my catweasel... Nice to know I`m not alone heh here`s what I have. Last edited by stainy; 27 September 2008 at 15:03.

09 February 2022, 00:16	#34
stainy Zone Friend Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Concord, NC, USA Age: 52 Posts: 1,712	Almost twenty years to the day!!! amazing. Thanks to a wonderful fella on r/amiga I now have all the 10 images. He scanned the disks as well.. I`m going to clean them up, print them and make new disk labels. I`ll image the adfs back onto real floppies!! Last edited by stainy; 09 February 2022 at 01:13. Reason: edit

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27 September 2008, 23:43	#22
darby Posts: n/a	Just found this post - I still have 6 of the original 10 disks that was distributed by Silica with my original A500 many moons ago. I still have Disk 1 (Animated Sound and Graphic Demos), 3 (Arcade Action and Much More), 5 (Slides), 6 (Digitised Demos), 7 (Useable Demos) and 8 (Ham pics). BTW I see you used disk 10 as a sound tracker samples disk :-) I'll see if I can ADF them if you are interested (not sure whether there are any read errors - they are nearly 2 decades old now <sigh>).

28 September 2008, 09:01	#23
stainy Zone Friend Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Concord, NC, USA Age: 52 Posts: 1,712	darby yes please could you adf them.. .. I`m also interested in the disks themselves.. you want to part with them??

28 September 2008, 13:18	#24
darby Posts: n/a	stainy - I'll have a go at ADF'ing the disks later and I'll upload. If they all go Ok I wouldn't mind parting with the original disks as I can make a copy. Bought back quite a few memories reading through the post, especially the colour cycling Heart demo and the Colorado skiing sample.

03 October 2008, 10:55	#25
stainy Zone Friend Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Concord, NC, USA Age: 52 Posts: 1,712	Hhaha yeah... still can`t quite remember it... think it`s ` Be above the rest in Colorado` something. I`ll take those disks off you that would be brilliant... I can swap something or paypal you some ?

16 October 2008, 11:43	#26
stainy Zone Friend Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Concord, NC, USA Age: 52 Posts: 1,712	Any news?

16 October 2008, 20:15	#27
darby Posts: n/a	I'm not precious, so PM me with details if you want them :-) However, good and bad news. I tried to ADF the disks and 3 worked and 3 didn't. However, I tried this on an A1200 I acquired from eBay and the floppy isn't great so it may just be the unit. I'll twin the 3 over to my laptop and upload to the Zone later. Having said that, the 3 I can't ADF actually boot, kinda, with a few read block errors, so conceivable you could trackFix them and reimage. FTR Looking at the contents, they seem to be a collection of stuff from the original Fred Fish PubDomain disks.

21 October 2008, 13:40	#28
hit Registered User Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: planet earth Posts: 1,115	if you have a spare pc with two 3.5 floppy drives you can try using adfread: http://www.winuae.net/frames/download.html http://www.winuae.net/files/adfread-1.1.zip this one needs additinaly a tiny driver: http://simonowen.com/fdrawcmd/ http://simonowen.com/fdrawcmd/FdInstall.exe adfread will read bad tracks on its next run. this can repeated as offten as required. offten gives good results after a couple of retries.

26 October 2008, 23:18	#29
stainy Zone Friend Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Concord, NC, USA Age: 52 Posts: 1,712	Why does adfread need two floppy drives? Amiga disk goes in one.. pc disk in the other.. and it creates an .adf ? does it create it on the pc floppy disk then ? Just tried getting two floppies working on my machine... it`s not having any of it! Bugger.. sold my catweasel because it wouldn`t work.. this doesn`t work.. i`m destined not to get anything working

29 October 2008, 04:34	#30
Hewitson Registered User Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Melbourne, Australia Age: 41 Posts: 3,772	darby try to copy the files onto a good disk and then adf that. If you are lucky the bad sectors will not have anything stored on them, or if they do it may be replaceable.

29 July 2010, 14:26	#31
Tolls Registered User Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: :England: Posts: 264	I know this is an old post, but I wondered if these Silica Demo disks ever made it to the zone? Cheers! Tolls.

22 August 2021, 20:47	#32
stainy Zone Friend Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Concord, NC, USA Age: 52 Posts: 1,712	I don`t think they did.. I`m still after 4, 6-10

18 January 2022, 17:46	#33
stainy Zone Friend Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Concord, NC, USA Age: 52 Posts: 1,712	Still after these disks

14 February 2022, 17:24	#35
Jope - Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Helsinki / Finland Age: 43 Posts: 9,861	Could you upload the ADFs to the Zone, or some other place please?

14 February 2022, 17:44	#36
stainy Zone Friend Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Concord, NC, USA Age: 52 Posts: 1,712	They are on archive.org

15 February 2022, 10:00	#37
Jope - Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Helsinki / Finland Age: 43 Posts: 9,861	Excellent, thanks. :-)

16 February 2022, 02:15	#40
scuzz Registered User Join Date: Feb 2016 Location: New Forest Posts: 196	I did a blog about the disks as I had 9 out of the 10 and then created disk 4. All the stuff is generally on Fred Fish disks. https://www.scuzzscink.com/amiga/scu...ary22_0901.htm

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