ScuzzBlog: Diaries June 2017
Entry 20th June 2017: Post: 01
So so funny
Hi
I have been digging through some very old floppy disks today in the hope
of finding my Kuma Gadget disk. I have resorted to ploughing through old
Windows disks and Amiga floppy disks that I acquired but never use as
they are obviously cracked and copied games. Anyway along with a full
set of Windows for Workgroups ' floppy ' disks I came across this
cracker of a disk and no doubt some will remember....
The very pointless Year 2000 BIOS Test disk dated May 1999. Seventeen
years ago. Seriously, bloody seventeen years ago. Remember the panic
over the date of the new millennium and how it was going to cause chaos
at midnight. They even had a special action centre set up on the TV to
track the horrors. Nothing happened. Nothing.
I guess I will keep my disk. Even though on this Win7 machine I can't
read the disk as I don't have a floppy drive. I'd be stuffed now
wouldn't I if I needed it. That made me giggle.
I decided to have a look at this mountain of Amiga disks that I have
that are copies of games. Over the years I have acquired so many disks
of cracked games etc. Seems its all the kids were doing. Endless copies
of very dubious disks. Anyway I plugged in an A500 that I have with a
ROM switcher on the back so I can use 1.3 and 2.0. The case of the 500
has taken a bit of a battering. I think the special star screws must
have fooled someone and they chose to simply snap the screw fastening
and break the case. Good machine this and pretty safe without a hard
drive to test some old disks. Usual thing, always the bragging about
cracking the game and then the usual hide and go seek as they promote
loads of their services whilst you try to work out to get into the game.
Anyway I got bored... I have the real games anyway so hardly matters. I
had intended formatting the disks but never have the heart to do it.
One disk here for a board game has the words ' Sorry dad ' written over
it as the kid copied another game onto what was no doubt his dads
beloved backgammon game.
I didn't find my disks. Not that it bothered me. Tomorrow is another day.
scuzz
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