Nachdem ich die klassische Amiga Workbench 1.3 doch ab und zu für Spiele auf dem A500 brauche, hab ich mir jetzt doch mal auch die physischen Disketten dafür besorgt. Damit alles seine Ordnung hat .

https://archive.org/details/amiga-wb133d

If you have a thing for tiny racing cars and retro gaming, here‘s Micro Machines for the Commodore Amiga!

https://archive.org/details/micro-machines_amiga

Have fun!

just finding excuses to take Mavica photos of things and why not another floppy badge showcase...? XD

Remember floppy disks? One company still uses them, and are now to finally rid them. https://mindsconnected.tech/index.php?showtopic=1174&view=findpost&p=8981 #floppydisk #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #faa #usa #tech

Ever since I got my A1200 in 1993, I've been a huge fan of the Amiga! But the one thing that always bugged me about it was the distinction between PAL and NTSC. It's a computer! The system and especially the software shouldn't have to give a flying fart about its graphical output or the country you purchased it in!

I was just checking out the "Oh No - More Lemmings" demo and, even though it's just a 4-levels-demo, the game comes with an on-disk copy protection and also only runs on the NTSC chipset. On PAL, it just crashes on a black screen. Sigh....

vid of it in action with my Mavica FD 75

shows the whole idea of putting contact info on a wearable badge that can be read by the camera :D

:O rough cutting but it looks cool!

After all this time, SimCity still is one of my favourite video games ever. And after all these years of collecting, I am still finding new stuff!

Today, I just came across a pristine copy protected disk image of SimCity v1.1 for the Amiga. That one will happily run the game without the need to get any codes from the manual. Also today, I found a slightly more modern version of the Terrain Editor documentation, where they removed the instructions for ATARI systems. "Imho" an interesting bit of gaming history!

Yep, I guess I'm a nerd.

I got this dumb idea for a floppy disk con badge, so of course it would have a printed label, but the silly fun idea is where I put a picture of QR code of my linktr.ee or whatever as a file on the disk - load the floppy into my Mavica (which I'll definitely be using at the next con!) and people can scan the QR code from the screen on the camera XD

In the latest episode 215 of the Scene World podcast, the hosts spoke with Torsten Roeder about the diskmags.de project. This comprehensive online archive for floppy disk magazines (diskmags) is dedicated to preserving these digital publications for future generations.

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-06-00018-EN.html

Well, considering this is my very first physical Amiga diskette with a full-on copy protection, everything went way better than expected. Easy peasy!

I managed to extract a perfect KryoFlux stream from the protected disk and its copy protection tracks! Also, the resulting "CT RAW" disk image plays perfectly fine in the latest WinUAE Amiga emulator. Great success!

Have fun:
https://archive.org/details/ll1_amiga
https://archive.org/details/ll1_amiga_box

opening for a bunch more of these for June/July :>

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd8ydv6AM4vtsyqTIRGNNi6IUkpjORbEFWAAfRVjcCzEdkbxg/formResponse

WIP Floppy disk in #Blender. This is about 2 hours of work so far.

#Blender3D #3DArt #HardSurfaceModeling #FloppyDisk

a new superpower has been unlocked

(PRINTING!)

Windows 3.0 steht selbst bei eingefleischten Retro-Veteranen ziemlich im Schatten seiner Nachfolger Windows 3.1 und natürlich WfW 3.11. Dabei war es ein ziemlich wichtiger Meilenstein der Windows Geschichte! Erstmals gab es einen eigenen Datei- und Programm-Manager und viele der später sehr bekannten Tools wurden hier das erste Mal mit ausgeliefert. Die Oberfläche dürfte für die meisten schon ziemlich vertraut wirken, wenn auch noch etwas unfertig und teilweise in schwarz-weiß.

Falls es jemanden interessiert, hier nun eine seltene, deutsche Version auf sieben 720K 3,5 Zoll DD Disketten. Viel Spaß!

https://archive.org/details/mswin_3.0_de-escom

#Windows #FloppyDisk #Disketten #RetroComputing
#90er #Preservation #PCGaming #Geschichte

I recall a floppy disk brand from the early '80s called "Verbrum." It was an offshoot of Verbatim, I am nearly certain. I cannot find any evidence that this existed in web searches.

Does anyone else remember this brand / sub brand?

I missed #FloppyDisk #FloppyDay, so let’s celebrate 5.26” instead and just call it within measurement tolerances.

This isn’t quite what I was expecting, but it’ll do.

Post your 5.25" floppy disks for 5/25!

Manchmal hat es doch Vorteile, der einzige Retro-Spinner im Netz zu sein, denn dadurch konnte ich mir heut Abend diese deutsche 720K Diskettenfassung von Windows 3.0 für nur 10,00€ ersteigern. Wenn die Datenträger jetzt noch lesbar sind, wäre das cool! Hab' davon bisher nur 5 1/4 Zoll Floppies in der Sammlung. Gespanntes Abwarten...