[torontocbm] Re: "BMD" Amiga PAL Boot Disk
- From: "Miraglia, Walter" <Walter.Miraglia@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 22:02:07 -0500
I wish I could have made it up there,
I would have loved to have grabbed another c64...
( I don't suppose there are any left? )
Had to go to my parents house and plant the tomatoes, eggplants, peppers,
zuccini's and cucumbers...
(my dad has a pretty big garden in his back yard, at least 100' x 30' so lots
to plant...
Otherwise I would have been up there bright an early...
-----Original Message-----
From: torontocbm-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:torontocbm-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Syd Bolton
Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2009 11:00 PM
To: torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [torontocbm] Re: "BMD" Amiga PAL Boot Disk
Ernie and gang robbed me!!! They took a whole box of disks.
Oh that's right. They asked. :)
-----Original Message-----
From: torontocbm-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:torontocbm-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ernie Chorny
Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2009 10:51 PM
To: torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [torontocbm] Re: "BMD" Amiga PAL Boot Disk
Ken -
Have it - will do soon - too much gardening going on!
Ernie
Ken Rath wrote:
> Sorry Syd & Ernie...
>
> Something came up and I couldn't make it up on Saturday.
>
> If, when you have a moment Ernie, you could make me an ADF of the PAL
> Boot Disk I'd really appreciate it.
>
> Thanks! :)
>
>
> Ken
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ernie Chorny" <chorny@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 4:53 PM
> Subject: [torontocbm] Re: "BMD" Amiga PAL Boot Disk
>
>
>> Syd -
>>
>> I plan to be in Brantford this weekend. If no other offer shows up I
>> could grab one and make an ADF for Ken.
>>
>> Maybe I would also be able to pick up certain other disks? :)
>>
>> Ernie
>>
>>
>> Syd Bolton wrote:
>>> Ken we have tons of these disks....and I used to sell to BMD and
>>> knew Barry
>>> etc.
>>> Don't know where you are located, but if you would be willing to
>>> come to
>>> Brantford you could just grab your own copy here. Otherwise it may
>>> take a
>>> bit for us to make an ADF especially since we have our big event this
>>> Saturday.
>>> Syd
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: torontocbm-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> [mailto:torontocbm-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ken Rath
>>> Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 9:42 PM
>>> To: torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Subject: [torontocbm] "BMD" Amiga PAL Boot Disk
>>>
>>> I was wondering if anyone might still have a copy of the "BMD" Amiga
>>> PAL Boot Disk that used to be shipped with Amiga games that were
>>> made in Europe.
>>>
>>> Back around 1992 I worked for a computer distributor in Woodstock,
>>> Ontario called BMD (British Magazine Distributors). It brought over
>>> a good number of Amiga (and later PC) games from Europe. Initially,
>>> there was a problem with some of these games because they wouldn't
>>> run properly on the NTSC Amigas. Shortly thereafter someone created
>>> the "BMD" Amiga PAL Boot Disk. It was included with every Amiga game
>>> from Europe that BMD shipped to the Amiga Dealers here in Canada
>>> (and also the USA).
>>>
>>> An Amiga owner would first boot from the PAL Boot Disk. As long as
>>> that Amiga had the 1MB Fat Agnus the boot disk would "change" the
>>> Amiga from NTSC
>>>
>>> (50Hz) mode to PAL (60Hz) mode. After that the Amiga owner could
>>> then boot the Amiga game from Europe and it would usually work
>>> without any issues.
>>>
>>> I know that with a lot people using emulators nowadays to run Amiga
>>> ADF games there is really no need for using the PAL Boot disk.
>>> However, I have been converting a few ADF files to DSDD Amiga disks
>>> and have discovered that
>>>
>>> a lot of the ADF Amiga Games I've found are the "European/PAL"
>>> versions.
>>>
>>> I've been looking for an ADF copy of the PAL Boot Disk - or
>>> something like it - but so far I haven't found any. I was hoping
>>> that someone might still have a copy of one lying around. If so,
>>> would you be able to make me a copy
>>>
>>> or make me an ADF file of the disk and E-mail it to me?
>>>
>>> Sorry to be a bit long winded (above). I wasn't sure how many
>>> people knew or remembed about those PAL boot disks.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your help! :)
>>>
>>>
>>> Ken Rath
>>>
>>>
>>>
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