ScuzzBlog: Diaries April 2018
Entry 17th April 2018: Post: 1
Failed Hopelessly
Not like me to give up on a project, but having spent a good few
weeks putting together articles to create my April challenge of
a monthly magazine I can proudly confirm that I failed. It was
not through want of trying I can assure. But, the effort and
energy needed to take all that I put together and then create
a coherent, informative and entertaining magazine was way out
of my league. I just hadn't got a clue. And so after weeks of
collecting disks, software, magazines etc all related to the
Amiga 1000 I decided instead to create my very own catalogue of
CDs celebrating the era of the very wonderful Amiga 1000. Sadly
the concept of a magazine falls down the rabbit hole never to
be seen again. Never mind.
Here is what I posted on the forums and groups.....
Just to say that I have now completed my work building the Amiga
1000 archive. Quite a challenge in the end and finished with me
building a 3' high stack of floppies and half a dozen zip disks
plus the various workbench and support disks including the 1060
disks. I have now put away all the various disk boxes for software
and games but have kept out a good batch of various disks so I can
use with the Amiga 1000.
I have catalogued the software and games by year and in respect of
software the various disciplines such as desktop, video, paint
packages and the like. I have basically used three key years and
that is 85,86 and 87 with a sprinkling of 88 when software has
been updated.
I have collated seven CDs which I have called the Amiga 1000 Era
and include all the games and software in ADF format, the video of
the Amiga History in MP4 format, full sets of Amiga World magazine
in PDF format together with various articles, photographs and
interviews with Jay Miner for example.
And so that goes into the library. And onward... I have already
set up the A500 with 590 to progress onto a similar collection
for the 500 which will be a lot larger. I kinda miss the 1000 for
two reasons, now I have set up the 500. First is that the 1000
was very quiet compared to the 500 with the 590 and I did like
front loading disks on the 1000. The 1000 is a lot more robust
in terms of disk swap and being able to handle anything I threw
at it. Whilst the 500 is a lot more temperamental when using a
lot of copy disks that carry more over in memory and survives
the soft-boot. I rarely had to hard the 1000 in truth and after
the kick she basically would take anything I threw at her.
One other point of note and that is the 1000 became a one disk
machine.... in other words if the game or software came on one
disk it probably was designed for the 1000. With only the 512K
its funny how many times I got the notification that I need to
buy more memory.... very polite I would add. I have grown to
like the 1000. Happy days.
Maybe in another lifetime
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