BS1 Collection - awesome looking haul of disks

[cmsj]

Nothing to do with me, just saw it on Twitter: https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/949696733629558784

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Note: download files from here: http://www.amigaclub.be/bs1/

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[Signman]

That will be some incredible image repository if and when it is done.

[chip]

What impressive amount of floppies

We can only hope we will find some gems inside that collection

[-TCB!-]

So, a guy of the Belgian Amiga Club met up with one of the old BS1 members, who had a stack of 80 (yes eighty) diskboxes sitting on his attic. They are now converting this treasure trove to .adf box by box. The guy has no time to virus check / dupe check / index / etc... but I am sure there are a few interested in that over here.

Ping me here and I will link you up with the guy...

[-TCB!-]

I am in touch with "Simon" and have the first batch of 170 disks .adf'ed. I opened a separate thread to see if anyone on here wants to help.

[mai]

Originally Posted by -TCB!-

I am in touch with "Simon" and have the first batch of 170 disks .adf'ed. I opened a separate thread to see if anyone on here wants to help.

I am of course interested too!
Just a reminder, always keep disks write protected, do not change anything!!
We(at least we at TOSEC) want to catalog/preserve as it is!

[SimonV]

And here I am ...

First box is already torrented and I think I will just post the torrent links for future imaged boxes here because on the Commodore AMiga facebook group the first link is already flagged within 12 hours and gone. Is it facebook or moderation out of fear the group gets flagged as piracy spreaders by people that still live in 1992... I leave that in the middle. It is what it is.

ANyway this is what I do and did with the first box:

I made adf files of it's contents without changing a thing. The adf have the name like it showed up in workbench or in case of NDOS disks I gave them the name that was on the label. There might and will be virusses, I don't checked what version it is or who cracked it and etcetera .... that part I leave to the community.

The good news already is that the first box contained 179 disks with only 3 that were bad.

Here is torrent number 1 ... keep seeding for a while and use the contents whatever way you seem fit.

[mai]

Thank you very much!
Dont get tired to image them all, i am aware, that it is time consuming job, so i can appreciate it!

[SimonV]

Don't worry :-) . I motivated to get image it all and get rid of the pile of floppy's that probably fits on an 8gb usbstick. When it's done it all goes to the recycling center or local amigans that want floppies.

Also help is on the way to pick up some boxes so it hopefully can go a bit faster

[dirkies]

keep the bad disks too, they may be recoverable with some Kryoflux TLC, as they may be MFM disks. (like the elusive Powerstyx BS1 crack that is not in TOSEC but since it is MFM it was back then (15 years ago) not possible to transfer to a file)

[SimonV]

I just wonder if I need to be afraid to get a knock on the door ...

[dlfrsilver]

You won't. We're in 2017.

[StingRay]

Originally Posted by SimonV

because on the Commodore AMiga facebook group the first link is already flagged within 12 hours and gone.

I can still see your link there, it's not gone.

Originally Posted by dlfrsilver

You won't. We're in 2017.

You're living in the past.

[dlfrsilver]

Originally Posted by SimonV

And here I am ...

First box is already torrented and I think I will just post the torrent links for future imaged boxes here because on the Commodore AMiga facebook group the first link is already flagged within 12 hours and gone. Is it facebook or moderation out of fear the group gets flagged as piracy spreaders by people that still live in 1992... I leave that in the middle. It is what it is.

ANyway this is what I do and did with the first box:

I made adf files of it's contents without changing a thing. The adf have the name like it showed up in workbench or in case of NDOS disks I gave them the name that was on the label. There might and will be virusses, I don't checked what version it is or who cracked it and etcetera .... that part I leave to the community.

The good news already is that the first box contained 179 disks with only 3 that were bad.

Here is torrent number 1 ... keep seeding for a while and use the contents whatever way you seem fit.

Found 7 ADF virused, 8 or 9 disk with broken content, and 1 missing disk.

I made a clean archive here :

https://we.tl/4LAwcPptXA

[davideo]

@dlfrsilver

Thanks. Downloading now

[SimonV]

Originally Posted by StingRay

I can still see your link there, it's not gone.

Yeah, for me it was gone for a while. maybe it was quarantined by facebook for a while? Happens from time to time.

Originally Posted by dlfrsilver

Found 7 ADF virused, 8 or 9 disk with broken content, and 1 missing disk.

I made a clean archive here :

https://we.tl/4LAwcPptXA

Maybe add a complementary textfile in your archive with the message it is in fact cleaned ? Because my file still says it's the original material.

[mai]

Personally i hope there is some demo scene stuff among!
First torrent isnt.

[SimonV]

Don't worry ... I do have a box labelled "demos" . But maybe I want to keep the best for last :-) .

[SimonV]

But that said ... aren't cracktros like demo scene stuff ?

[mai]

Originally Posted by SimonV

Don't worry ... I do have a box labelled "demos" .

That sounds good!

Originally Posted by SimonV

But that said ... aren't cracktros like demo scene stuff ?

sure, i am looking for such intros, trainers and so on too!

just a small statistic(crc32 compare):
First box: 176 Disks
72 currently not in TOSEC