27 September 2008, 14:50 | #21 |
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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. |
27 September 2008, 23:43 | #22 |
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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 |
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darby yes please could you adf them.. .. I`m also interested in the disks themselves.. you want to part with them??
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28 September 2008, 13:18 | #24 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Any news?
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16 October 2008, 20:15 | #27 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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.
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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 |
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I don`t think they did.. I`m still after 4, 6-10
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18 January 2022, 17:46 | #33 |
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Still after these disks
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09 February 2022, 00:16 | #34 |
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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!!
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Could you upload the ADFs to the Zone, or some other place please?
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14 February 2022, 17:44 | #36 |
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They are on archive.org
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Excellent, thanks. :-)
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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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