ScuzzBlog: Diaries March 2026
Entry 17th March 2026: Post 1: Amiga disks - Long lost AmiKit Cartoon Classics disks.
Amiga disks - Long lost AmiKit Cartoon Classics disks.
In the early days of the blogs the page indexing was text based.
In truth my first decade or so of blogs were all Yahoo Groups
based and purely released as subjects on the various Amiga forums.
Eventually in 2004 I created my own Yahoo Group and this became my
main point of release for blogs.
I say this because in those days blog titles tended to be joky and
cryptic as a way of getting noticed amongst all the other blog
posts. Some days there were hundreds and hundreds of posts to wade
through and so you wanted a title that was a little eye catching.
Moving on to the website blog in 2016/17 I came with all the bad
habits of not including the subject matter in the title. As a
consequence of this the first batches of blogs are indexed only in
text and impossible almost to work out what I was featuring in the
blog. I do spend a lot of time wading through old blogs trying to
find stuff. Which is why I created CVinK but that didn't work.
Anyway I was trying to find an image to use on a forum post when I
came across a blog about a little disk collection from October 2017
labelled AmiKit. The disks were found tucked away in the back of
a Cartoon Classics box. Although the box had an Amiga Plus inside
the disks date from 1988/89 and either found their way into the box
later on or the Cartoon Classics originally had an Amiga 500 and
dates from before the Plus. Before December 1991.
I recall at the time of finding the disks of one or two of them
falling over and I salvaged the data and rebuilt them on some really
old crappy disks. I had quite forgotten about the disks and was sure
they had not been ADF transported to the emulator. If you read my
blog from yesterday you will see that I again had to rebuild the
disks. Today I transferred them to the emulator to take a look.
Turned out to be a fools erand. Although the disks were created as
a pack the author explains the contents are all taken from the Fred
Fish Library. I have all of Fred's libraries on CD so I have all
that is on these disks.
Regardless , I spent a couple of hours going through the disks and
recording the content to the blog. The disks are designed to provide
useful tools for all the major areas of Amiga usage from spreadsheets
to word processors and games and even has some terminal software.
It is all basic stuff. The Woekbench 1.3 provided appears to have
been modified to include some PC based applications on the Extras
disk. Always useful having a spare Workbench set.
The little clutch of games came from Anglia and FiveStar PD. They
were very common in the day featuring Tetris, Battleships, Space
Invaders, Tiles and Chess. As ever I got caught up playing Battleships
and Shanghai. Oh and amongst them was Missile Command.
Amazing there was a full length video of Stellar Blade on one of
the disks. I really can't back that up.
Anyhoo as ever a big thankyou to my A1200, SurfSquirrel and ZIP
drive for aiding and assisting in the rebuilding of the disks. And
a big thankyou to Cloanto for creating such a wonderful emulator.
And now I am torn, do I play Stellar Blade or Missile Command.
Happy days.
Amiga disks - Long lost AmiKit Cartoon Classics disks.
I need to boot into Workbench 1.3 to make it work.
Some would say a waste of time for half a
dozen disks, and I guess they may be right. Me
I'm just a lawnmower ... (Peter Gabriel). 'Go Fish'
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