{"id":157,"date":"2015-07-29T23:40:07","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T23:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/?p=157"},"modified":"2024-05-24T09:04:57","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T09:04:57","slug":"amiga-swap-disks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gotpapers.scene.org\/?p=157","title":{"rendered":"Amiga Swap Disks"},"content":{"rendered":"

The sheer amount of C64<\/abbr> disk covers presented here might give one the impression that only the C64 scene<\/abbr> made an effort to decorate their data carriers. This would be a wrong impression, of course. The Amiga<\/abbr> scene mailswapped floppy disks just the same, and made sure the recipients of the fresh wares were aware where the disks came from. However, since 3,5″ floppy disks were not floppy at all, and, most importantly, featured a shutter, Amiga users did not have to stick them into custom-made paper envelopes anymore. Instead, swappers<\/abbr> (that is, the people whose job was to distribute the fresh releases by post as quickly as possible) decorated their disks with stickers, rubber stamps, and signatures. And since the 3,5″ disks were much more robust than their 5,25″ predecessors on the C64, they had a longer life span and could be circulated for a long time – accumulating countless stickers and scribblings until there was no space left on the casing.<\/p>\n

While digitising some Amiga disks from Ziphoid<\/strong>‘s collection, Menace<\/strong> stumbled upon two interesting (and comparably pristine) disks he would like to share with us. First of all, there is a virgin disk with a custom-tailored sticker label from the legendary C64 and Amiga group Dual Crew<\/em>, done by their Swedish swapper<\/abbr> Snuskis<\/em> in 1992 and sporting the group’s motto: [link<\/a>] The other disk has been in circulation for a bit longer, carrying a rubber stamp from the none less legendary group Fairlight<\/em>, and a sticker from another Swedish swapper and BBS<\/abbr> operator Zike!<\/em>: [link<\/a>]<\/p>\n

You can expect more materials from Menace’s excavations.<\/p>\n

Edit: The blogpost originally stated that Snuskis was Finnish, while in reality he was, of course, Swedish<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n