Bad 3.1 install disks

[amigadave]

To be clear -- I do own the legitimate disk sets -- both Commodore's and Escom's. I can't find ADFs, but I have to say that it's frustrating to not have such a thing available. Even Apple's old OSes are in the public domain. I understand that a forum like this must respect protocols, but if some one could contact me privately here and point me in the right direction I would really really appreciate it.

(I think I ruined both my sets trying to install on an A2000 I own -- the bad blocks occur in the same place. Floppy failures have consistently been reason I have given up on Amigas -- still my true love for years at a time. That said, I do own a Joyboard and original Amiga joysticks.)

Thanks for any help.

Wow!  A real "Joyboard" owner?  I have never seen one.

I have probably 5 or 6 complete sets of 3.1 floppy disks and I don't think a single set is without errors.  Every time I do a re-install on one of my Amigas, I have to play the shuffle the floppy game (because the errors are in different places on different sets, so I can get a complete install by removing one bad floppy and replacing it with the same floppy from another set, but only if the replacement floppy is recognized as the same disk when swapped).  It is a very frustrating situation and I have wondered if I can create new Workbench floppy sets from one of my several AmigaForever CD's?  In theory it should be possible, but I have never tried to do it.

As others have suggested, finding the adf's on the Internet to recreate a set of install floppy disks would be easier.

[amigadave]

The Joyboard is simply a cool thing to have. I don't have any of the three or so games made to work with it, or even a C64 emulator... The pre-Commodore Amiga joysticks on the other hand are great and what I choose to use. Simple, small and responsive.

The errors on my disk sets are so consistent, I feel sure in retrospect I stupidly torched them all on one machine... probably a 2000 I was fighting with a while back.

If you have any version of AmigaForever, you should try to create your own new Amiga Workbench install floppy disks, as all the files required are on the CD.  I can't remember if they are separated into directories for each of the individual floppy disks, like the Workbench disk, the Extras disk, etc., but with some work I think it could be done.  It has been a long, long time since I looked at the file structure on an AmigaForever CD.

If you don't own any version of AmigaForever, you can buy it new, or find someone with an old version that will likely sell it cheap if they have upgraded to a later version.