Well this is a sad day for me.. I've been lugging around my a1200 and several hundreds of floppies with me since my Amiga was my primary computer back in the early 90's... Several years ago I did transfer all of the files off of my 245MB hard drive to a compact flash card and was happy that information was safe. So recently I started getting interested in a new project to look at all of my old Amiga floppies and to salvage as much as I could off of them. I figured that 15-20 years later that these disks may be fully corrupted but some of them should be ok since they were stored in a good environment. So I pulled out my boxes of Amiga disks from my closet and laid them next to my desk, where they sat for a week. After the week when I went back to start looking at them I realized a horrible thing. I had put them ON TOP of and right next to my new Logitech z-5500 subwoofer. AHHHH!!!!!!!! It's been so long since I have had to deal with such fragile magnetic media, I totally forgot that the very powerful magnet in that subwoofer was capable of wiping out all information on my floppies. And tonight I finally verified that it is true. Every disk I put in shows up 'DF0:
?' .... So sad, I had lots and lots of games, apps, texts, and personally made graphics and music on them... I'm mad I make such a dumb mistake... anyway, thanks for listening.. by the way, I wonder if there is any amiga utility that can try to recover deleted data from disks, maybe I could salvage something from them.. I searched aminet but could not find anything
-Tim
