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Phaelax
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Posted: 27th Feb 2013 17:27
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Finding a floppy disk case!

Without getting into too much detail, most of the original boxes for all my Amiga games recently got destroyed/disappeared. I'm not happy! But now I have about 120 disks tossed into a shoebox and wanted a new floppy disk case to contain them for better keeping.

No stores in town have anything at all, which I'm not that surprised. But I only managed to find two cases only two on Amazon! Just doing a google image search made it hard to find a picture of them. I know nobody uses floppies anymore, but I can still easily buy packs of them. Why is a case so hard to find as if they never existed?

I found a few on ebay, a lot of 3 for $15 that look like they hold 50 each. I'll probably buy those.

"You're all wrong. You're all idiots." ~Fluffy Rabbit
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Libervurto
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Posted: 27th Feb 2013 19:46 Edited at: 27th Feb 2013 19:46
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You mean these things?

Just looking at a picture is a major nostalgia rush!

I found individual ones:

Never seen those before, can't see the point, not as if they are fragile things.


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Phaelax
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Posted: 27th Feb 2013 20:51
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Yup, one of those things. Yea I came across the individual ones, they were new to me also.

I had one with a lock on it. I'm wondering if it was broken open at some point cause nobody could find the key. It was all boxed up in my dad's basement while I was in the army. I think my brother got into it or his kids and trashed the boxes.

It's sad that only a few years ago I had original packaging for several Psygnosis games.

Think I'll just buy these. It's $24 for all 3 shipped, I can live with that I guess.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lot-of-3-TAN-3-5-FLOPPY-DISK-DISKETTE-PC-STORAGE-BOXES-CASE-FILING-TRAYS-/170982898383?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27cf5ffacf


I want this game so bad, my copy doesn't work anymore:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-YORK-WARRIORS-Commodore-Amiga-/261174697450?pt=UK_VintageComputing_RL&hash=item3ccf399dea

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Libervurto
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Posted: 28th Feb 2013 01:27
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Is that based on the movie "The Warriors"? I have "The Warriors" game on PS2 that came out in 2005, it was soooooooo much fun! It was like a perfectly adapted, 3D "Streets of Rage".


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Posted: 28th Feb 2013 04:38
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I came here expecting to see something else...

Naughty jokes aside, I see these all the time (full of blank floppies, too) in thrift stores all the time!
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Posted: 28th Feb 2013 06:05
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I'm not sure if its from a movie or not. But after looking up the movie, I think it's quite possible. I used to play the game with my brother all the time.

I should check a thrift store.

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Libervurto
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Posted: 28th Feb 2013 08:35
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I found a video and the music and style is definitely inspired by The Warriors, but the gameplay is quite different. It looks like a merge between Warriors and Escape from New York


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Posted: 28th Feb 2013 09:50
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I've still got 2, I use them as tool boxes - when I had my ST, those boxes were just a pain - never got 2 boxes the same, let alone boxes that would stack, so I'd still have foot high piles of disks all over the place. I ended up getting a roll tray (big heavy duty plastic tray thing, about 3.5x2ft) and partitioning it - this thing could hold about 1000 disks. I would say that I wish I still had my ST and games... but hell, the disks were starting to degrade before the end of the 90's - they'd practically be dust by now.

I got a fever, and the only prescription, is more memes.
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