A long time ago, when computers still used floppy disks, there was a need to duplicate the contents of these floppies. Amiga X-Copy was one of the most well known disk copying programs for the Commodore Amiga series of computers, with countless users all across the world.
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VIRUS MYTHS
by Rob Rosenberger with Ross Greenberg
>A number of myths have popped up recently about the threat of computer “viruses”. There are myths about how widespread they are, how dangerous they are, and even myths about what a computer virus really is. We’d like the facts to be known.
Reloaded Amiga Works by Andy Warhol
PITTSBURGH—A multi-institutional team of new-media artists, computer experts, and museum professionals have discovered a dozen previously unknown experiments by Andy Warhol (BFA, 1949) on aging floppy disks from 1985.
AMIGA VIRUS
>INTRO : Amiga viruses began to be know since 1987 with the SCA Virus ,
after that differents and various in the code Viruses appeared all over the globe.
They were able to be resident in the Amiga RAM and be resilient after a simple reboot.
If the All 3 1⁄2-inch disk had the rectangular hole in the corner obstructed then write was enabled to the disk and the Viruses had great times of fun infecting them with a copy of themselves . Most of their goals was to put on highlight a state of mind sentence ,
either political or social , or just an exaltation of the virus writer .
It’s important today , after two decades , to collect them and preserve them ,
they are part of human knowledge and a very limited and fragile part of it .
So Visit and help The Amiga Virus Encyclopedia , a very wealth website in this matter .
SABOTEUR REMAKES
Saboteur! is an action-adventure game created by Clive Townsend and published by Durell Software in 1985 for several 8-bit home computer formats.
The player is set in the role of an anonymous ninja, tasked with getting into a warehouse to steal a floppy disk which has the names of rebel leaders on it.