ScuzzBlog: Diaries March 2026
Entry 16th March 2026: Post 1: CDTV - hidden from view but not forgotten.
CDTV - hidden from view but not forgotten.
What I was doing today had nothing to do with the CDTV. Just that
I came across this blog from October 2017 and was amused by the
pictures of the hidden box with the CDTV inside. Caused me to go
check and no surprises it is still there. Totally hidden.
Anyhoo I had rescued a few disks, that I had, that for what ever
reason had not found their way onto the emulator so I needed to
remedy that. Amongst the disks were some PD disks that I had
repaired, using some rather tatty old disks. I was troubled that
the disks may not have survived this last nine years so I dragged
the disks and originals to the A1200. Sure enough the disks were
not reading properly and so I set too restoring the disks.
This involves an A1200 fitted with a normal and HD floppy drive
and a floppy head cleaning disk. The process involves reading the
floppies on the internal floppy and the other drives until the
disk contents appear in DOpus. I then copy the disk warts and all
to RAM and then swap the disk between drives and repeat the process
copying to the same list of files until all the files have copied
successfully to RAM.
Next I copy the contents from RAM to a good disk. Relabel the disk
and then create an ADF image and an LHA archive of the disk. I do
not make fresh copies of the disks anymore cus I just can't spare
valuable floppy disks.
A problem occurred with the last disk that left me scratching my
head. For what ever reason the disk cleaner refused to spin round
to clean the heads. Instead the drive tried to read as a normal
disk. I tried the disk in the other drives and it was just the
same. Didn't make any sense. Normally the disk when inserted spins
at high speed cleaning the head. I have obviously had disks go bad
on me but never an actual disk head cleaner.
I took the cleaner to another Amiga in the box room and sure enough
it had the same problem. I then got another disk head cleaner and
this worked no problem. How strange.
With all disks committed to ADF and LHA I now copy those files to
ZIP disk using a SurfSquirrel and have the ZIP ready to transfer
to PC and USB tomorrow for use on the emulator.
I was going to give up on the disks when the head cleaner broke but
being an obsessive compulsive nutter I put everything away and then
got them all out again and finished the process. My brain refuses
me let things go and forces me to resolve problems no matter just
how insignificant they are. What I need is a human head cleaner so
I can avoid such pressures. Fortunately I enjoy mucking around on
the Amiga even when it means I forget to eat, drink and go to bed.
And yes that happens... I just keep saying to myself I'll stop in
a minute or so. But don't.
The good disks and busted disk are back in the disk box together
with a short note to myself. I can't abide faulty disks so I do
spend a reasonable amount of time these days fixing disks.
The AmiKit disks that I feature tomorrow were generally fine. Only
the Workbench Extras disk gave me jipp. More on that tomorrow. The
disks were salvaged from a Cartoon Classics box for an A500 Plus.
Odd that inside were Workbench 1.3 disks. Interesting.
Happy days.
CDTV - hidden from view but not forgotten.
There are bits and pieces and various other
CDTVs sprinkled around the place
You just have to look a little harder
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