Amiga disk trading?

[haywirepc]

Back in the day some friends and I always traded amiga disks by mail.
I used to get disks in the mail from all over the world, and I remember
the excitement I had when one came in the mail.

I thought doing so again would be fun and wondered if anyone would
like to participate. You can post floppies by media mail very inexpensively.
 
I am hoping to trade less common things that you can not generally find on the internet, demos, apps or games... I also thought perhaps we could do email trading, but I kind of prefer the physical disks...
 
I also have some boxed amiga games that I am not using really and wondered if anyone would like to trade for them.
 
This disk trading network would also be great for people like me who recently came back to amiga and are having a hard time getting drivers
or whatever on to their ressurected amigas...
 
Anyone care to start trading?

Steven

[dougal]

It would be especially useful for people who have A1000s and need the Kickstart disk or people who simply have A500s with no expansions and no way/ or knowledge of converting ADFs to floppy.

[Boudicca]

Back in the day some friends and I always traded amiga disks by mail.
I used to get disks in the mail from all over the world,

I wonder if you bought any from ByteBack Computers...if you did that was by best mate who ran the company

[Gulliver]

This can also be usefull for users going back to the Amiga, that backed up their floppy disks as dms/adf and no longer have a way to converting them back to originals.
I remember back in 1995 I created dms images of my workbench 3.1 floppies, just in case. Then I stored my Amiga for a long time.
In 2001, i tried to put my Amiga back to a working condition. Floppies were damaged, i had the workbench dms images, but i wasnt able to put hem back to floppies, so i had to buy another set

[RMK305]

Interesting idea. I could be interested in this. Not just for the fun factor, but because it may take me back to my child hood and get me using the Amiga more instead of spending so much of my free time on here!

[haywirepc]

I think it would be alot of fun to get amiga disks in the mail again, and besides this, it could be very helpful to those coming back to amiga...

I just went through quite a great deal of crap just to get the ability to get an a1200 going and it would have been tons easier if some helpful amiga user had sent me some much needed drivers on floppy...

So far, I think I'm trading some boxed games for some amiga floppies...

I will soon begin to get some demos/games/music/artwork together on floppy for trade.  Pm me if you'd like to do some trades. I think a 6 pack of floppies is a good idea, costs between 2.00$ and 3.00$ to send 6 floppies, and 6 floppies can hold a whole lot of amiga goodies...

Steven

[save2600]

Okay buddy, disks sent. Waiting for my stuff now (been a couple weeks)... check your PM's!

[Cammy]

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/hombre
Network 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.adf
http://home.exetel.com.au/amiga/CF-BootADFBlitzer.adf

I 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?

[save2600]

I think Steven's fallen and he can't_get_up!  lol

[Crom00]

I think Steven's fallen and he can't_get_up!  lol

Guys I ahve ADf's that total about 4.5 gigs of amiga stuff.
Everything from os to productivity and games.

[skurk]

Guys I ahve ADf's that total about 4.5 gigs of amiga stuff.
Everything from os to productivity and games.

I have about 7 gigs of apps (no games), but I'm not supposed to say that here, am I? :-P

[jj]

sure you can if you created it from stufff you own

[Amiga_Nut]

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/hombre
Network 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.adf
http://home.exetel.com.au/amiga/CF-BootADFBlitzer.adf

I 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?

I like this idea

I've never transferred ADFs back to floppies for use on a real Amiga and I have no CF or DVD/CD drive for any of my Amigas so a disk with just a simple program to extract ADFs to real floppies would be fantastic