I think sending out disks which enable people to start transferring ADFs and writing their own floppies might be easier than offering to send any disk someone requests. They should be able to find the ADF they want (Deluxe Paint, Protracker or whatever potentially copyrighted software they're looking for), and write it back to a floppy themselves once they've got a boot disk allowing them to access the ADFs and write them.
I'd feel more comfortable doing this than sending people copies of commercial software. Also PD disks and things, even though there are no copyright issues the person in need of the software should be able to learn how to make these disks themselves once they receive the appropriate bootable ADF writing disk.
To help people out, I think we should find the essential disks which will get someone set up enough to start providing for themselves.
Another thing I thought that might be cheap enough to make and send to people is a DVD full of tutorial videos. If you have a look on YouTube, there are heaps of video demonstrations people have made on how to do all sorts of things with the Amiga, including writing ADFs back to floppy. Maybe downloading a bunch of these (with the authors permission of course) and compiling them onto a DVD with a menu to select different videos would really help to explain to people how to use this software once they get the disk. There's plenty of easy to use software for making a DVD from video clips, so it shouldn't be too hard. Of course a list of links to the online videos would be good too!
Anyway, these are the disks I have found that I think we should all have copies of that we can send out to anyone who needs them:
Hombre: ADF Transfers via serial, parallel or PC floppy:
http://wiki.abime.net/file_transfer/hombreNetwork Boot Disk: Connect your Amiga to a PC network or the internet:
http://jpv.wmhost.com/NetworkBootDisk/Compact Flash Boot Disks: A couple of disks for transferring files and writing ADFs from a CF/SD card in a PCMCIA adapter:
http://home.exetel.com.au/amiga/CF-BootTracksaver.adfhttp://home.exetel.com.au/amiga/CF-BootADFBlitzer.adfI think every Amiga user should download each of these ADF files and write them to floppy as they're essential emergency boot disks that can really help out when some people are just getting their systems up again.
Does anyone know of any other useful boot disks that we should link to?
