ScuzzBlog: Diaries August 2018 Entry 26th August 2018: Post 01: Amiga 1200 Beginners Pack Amiga 1200 Beginners Pack Back in my 'Starter' days with the Amiga 1200 I was somewhat lost in the dark, particularly regarding disk management. So imagine my joy when I acquired the A1200 Beginners Pack from Bruce Smith Books which not only had concise and detailed information on all things A1200 related but also had the handy video. I must have thumbed the pages of these books to death. The four floppy disks that came with the pack were also incredibly useful. In the day I never considered that I would be retaining these disks for the time I have and so thought nothing of writing on the labels. The one real classic among the pack was ARestaure which not only scanned floppies for deleted files it also would copy them to my RAM drive for recovery without mucking up the disk. I acquired further books in the series and even bought a second edition of my original just in case. During my review today I discovered an interesting issue with an Amiga 1200 which has a strange problem with the floppy drive as it refuses to format and copy and a certain block in the process. I simply connected an external floppy to check the problem and was able to copy the disks. I had attempted three different sets of the disks before concluding it must be the drive and not the disks. Amiga Beginners Pack Book 1 for the series is actually for the A600. My original disks which I had written on the label. Such a valued collection of books and which I still use to this day. Disk 1 and BuddBase 1.2. TextEngine which they advise should be booted from the floppy disk. OctaMed. ARestaure. Time to Blitz those disks. That problem with disk block 1742 which I tracked down to being an issue with the drive and not the actual floppy disks themselves. The drive would not copy 'femme'. Or 'TextEngine4.0.dct' on three different disks. So I plugged in an external drive. And copied no issue. I need to have a look at that drive. Another project. So I have my disks backed up and Blitzed. And I'm still a beginner

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