I thought the last few of us remaining amiga users were resourceful enough to use ADFs?
I've 'recreated' my original A1200 WB3.1 disks at least twice in the past 20 years, by whacking ADFs back onto new DD floppies. I even reprinted nice glossy labels to go on the disks...
Mike.
You are right, most of us are resourceful enough to backup and recreate our Workbench Floppy Disks, but many users have neglected to do that, or may have been busy with other things in life and are just now returning to using their Amiga computers only to find that their disks have become corrupt while sitting in a box in the closet or attic.
Also there are a few new users finding out about the Amiga through emulation who then decide to go out and find a Commodore 68k Amiga on the used computer market and might get one without the floppy disks included, or the disks they get are corrupted.
All I know is that there have been requests for this product from several users, so I am happy that AmigaKit asked Colanto to produce these disks.
Now I just hope that someone will step forward and give us an updated version of AmigaOS3.9 with all of the 4 Boing Bags already included, plus any other system files, tools and utilities which have been improved or added since the completion of Boing Bag 4 was done a while ago.
I think that a version equal to AmigaOS3.10 would make lots of users happy. The experienced users know how to make their own custom Kickstart ROMs and choose all the right components to make the best AmigaOS3.x experience, but some users (like me) would gladly pay for all of that work to be done by the experts and just pop a new CD into my fast Amiga models and double click on an install icon for AmigaOS3.10 (A4000 w/80MHz 68060 & A1200 w/50MHz 68060, plus hopefully someday a 68060 powered Daughter board for my FPGA Arcade Replay board). As I wrote already earlier in this thread, I think that many buyers of the proposed Apollo FPGA accelerators or stand alone systems will want AmigaOS3.9, or an enhanced version equal to AmigaOS3.10, instead of AmigaOS3.1. Since these new accelerators are supposed to have built-in USB hardware on them, perhaps the Poseidon USB stack could also be included in AmigaOS3.10. I would really like to see this project happen and would gladly pay $40 to $50 for a new AmigaOS3.10 CD. Maybe I am the only one thinking that way and everyone else would rather do it themselves?