Boxed Amiga software deal turns bust :-(

[save2600]

So, my latest score of 26 boxed games for $70 shipped:

4-D Boxing
AD&D - Dark Queen of Krynn
AD&D - Eye of the Beholder
AD&D - Shadow Sorcerer
American Gladiators
Barbarian II
Bards Tale II
Battle Squadron: Destruction of the Barrax Empire
Day of the Viper
Fiendish Freddie's Big Top of Fun
Globulus
Joan of Arc: Siege & the Sword
Knights of the Sky
M1 Tank Platoon
Midwinter
Nova 9
Phantasie
Print Master Gallery I
Red Lightening
Sculpt 3-D
Sex Vixens from Space
Shadowgate
Space 1889
Starglider II
Syndicate
The Perfect General

...resulted in a total bust. ALL of the disks are bad. Not a single one of them work and I have to clean my drive heads after inserting one of the filthy things. Looking at the disks themselves, I spy minute little blotches of what is probably some kind of mold. I'm not going to make a big stink about it since I bought the things un-tested. Well, he never said either way, but I *did* assume they worked. $70 worth of boxes and manuals I guess is how I'll look at it. I can always download the .adf's or WHDload files for most all of these titles. Still, what a bummer.

[save2600]

Thanks yeah, the thing is... if the disks didn't have mold or whatever on 'em, I wouldn't even have minded copying cracked .adf's over 'em but that's not going to be an option. I do like using the original disk with its label, but it's not a super tremendous deal. My bad for not asking more questions. Just wanted to share a disappointing Amiga story with my buds here for support.  :laughing:


This is the very first large batch of disks that hasn't worked in all my years of collecting. I've gotten disks from around the world, hundreds of pounds worth at times that have all been and still are fine.

Hey Amigadave., if you're listening: the 450 boxed titles or so you have... any interest in letting any of 'em go someday?

[save2600]

Let me ask you did you get it from a guy near San Fransisco bay area? Union Station/freemont?

No, this bloke's from Maryland. As an aside, he gave his fiancee the package to be mailed and she sent it USPS Priority. Cost him $46!  :lol:  

[save2600]

I feel for you Save!  It makes you wonder what happened to them that they ALL went bad.  I don't know if I've ever heard of that before.

Right, like someone with a real good 'magnetic' personality hung out by them too long iffin' you knows what I mean  

Doesn't explain the barely visible moldy looking patterns on the disks though. Methinks they were left in a moldy, rotten, undehumidified basement for years. And years. And years.

[save2600]

Not to steal the mans thread but Im looking for some boxes and manuals too
 
He got first dibs for sure though

Runie, the "deal" I got would  have been perfect for you! lmao

[save2600]

The boxes were a little dusty, and a few show signs of moisture like warpage on the bottom - but by and large, they're in really good shape. No obvious signs of mildew or weak integrity like they've been kept in a damp environment all this time.

[save2600]

Some of the latest issues of Amiga Format has some pretty well detailed articles about how to clean disks that are damaged by mold.

Is there a link out there to read up on this?