Hi,
may I point out I was not Bamiga member, I just got the disks from a member. I was contacted as being (big word -> ) the president of the Belgian Amiga club with the question if I wanted them or otherwise they would go the recycling center.
So just stashed the lot in my old Volvo as it was only a 15 minutes drive from my home.
Obviously it's not at all about piracy anymore, there's very little to nothing from 1994 and earlier that is still commercially available for the Amiga and not already available on dedicated rom sites.
So that brings us to the question why we are doing it ... there ARE things in that stack of disks that aren't available or broken that can now be fixed with another disk, scene stuff like musicdisks, unseen cracktros ... so it is really for the preservation of those missing things. It's 2018 ... I hope everyone can see the point of it and appreciate the effort.
In our eyes there is only one way to do this in an efficient way that is also motivating for us: we just archive every single disk and don't look back. Cleaning, checking and whatever ... that's for the community.
The cleaned archives for instance are not done by us but by an SPS member, I already see certain cracktros popping up at Pouet and I am sure a lot of people just have fun digging through them firing up their Amiga. And it also motivated a lot of people to finally start archiving their floppy collection at home or hand it over to someone who will.... it's really now or never if you have a few thousands of these.
