Polaroid 
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You, sir, win the internetz today! 
I really don’t dare check my own floppy collection, and haven’t booted up my Amiga for 8 or 9 years. Last time I did, the COM ports were broken (or both of my mice), and some of the keys were dead too. The HDD did spin up though, and the OS came up fine. Even back then I wasn’t adventurous enough to try out a floppy.
As for backups, I did transfer the contents of said HDD (a whopping 120MB) when Linux was still able to read the Amiga file system and have an emulator set up and ready to go ever since. Even extracted the Kickstart ROM myself.
Here's the root folder of the "drive:"
kai@Britannia:~/amiga$ ls -la
total 1376
drwxr-xr-x 31 kai kai 4096 Mär 20 19:53 .
drwx------ 82 kai kai 4096 Aug 23 20:27 ..
-rwx--x--x 1 kai kai 750 Jan 22 1979 3dtest
-rw------- 1 kai kai 354 Jan 22 1979 3dtest.info
-rwxr-xr-x 1 kai kai 22867 Sep 1 2000 adv.txt
-rw-r-xr-x 1 kai kai 354 Sep 1 2000 adv.txt.info
drwx--x--t 4 kai kai 4096 Mär 30 1995 ALT
-rwx--x--x 1 kai kai 103500 Dez 4 1994 Amigabasic
-rw------- 1 kai kai 466 Dez 4 1994 Amigabasic.info
drwx--x--t 27 kai kai 4096 Sep 18 1979 Backup
-rw------- 1 kai kai 628 Sep 17 1979 Backup.info
drwx--x--t 3 kai kai 4096 Mär 25 1978 BasicDemos
-rw------- 1 kai kai 632 Dez 4 1994 BasicDemos.info
drwx--x--t 2 kai kai 4096 Apr 8 1978 bilder
drwx--x--t 2 kai kai 4096 Okt 4 1998 c
-rwx--x--x 1 kai kai 10751 Feb 25 1995 CITG21.PCX
-rwx--x--x 1 kai kai 40000 Feb 10 1996 CIVIL0.map
-rwx--x--x 1 kai kai 37856 Feb 10 1996 CIVIL0.SVE
-rwx--x--x 1 kai kai 40000 Feb 15 1996 CIVIL1.map
-rwx--x--x 1 kai kai 37856 Feb 15 1996 CIVIL1.SVE
-rwx--x--x 1 kai kai 40000 Feb 15 1996 CIVIL2.map
-rwx--x--x 1 kai kai 37856 Feb 15 1996 CIVIL2.SVE
-rwx--x--x 1 kai kai 40000 Feb 15 1996 CIVIL3.map
-rwx--x--x 1 kai kai 37856 Feb 15 1996 CIVIL3.SVE
-rwx--x--x 1 kai kai 40000 Jan 10 1978 CIVIL4.map
-rwx--x--x 1 kai kai 37856 Jan 10 1978 CIVIL4.SVE
-rwx--x--x 1 kai kai 40000 Feb 15 1996 CIVIL5.map
-rwx--x--x 1 kai kai 37856 Feb 15 1996 CIVIL5.SVE
-rwx--x--x 1 kai kai 40000 Feb 10 1996 CIVIL6.map
-rwx--x--x 1 kai kai 37856 Feb 10 1996 CIVIL6.SVE
-rwx--x--x 1 kai kai 40000 Feb 14 1996 CIVIL7.map
-rwx--x--x 1 kai kai 37856 Feb 14 1996 CIVIL7.SVE
-rwx--x--x 1 kai kai 40000 Feb 14 1996 CIVIL8.map
-rwx--x--x 1 kai kai 37856 Feb 14 1996 CIVIL8.SVE
-rwx--x--x 1 kai kai 40000 Feb 14 1996 CIVIL9.map
-rwx--x--x 1 kai kai 37856 Feb 14 1996 CIVIL9.SVE
-rwxr-xr-x 1 kai kai 22867 Sep 1 2000 code.txt
-rw-r-xr-x 1 kai kai 354 Sep 1 2000 code.txt.info
-rwx--x--x 1 kai kai 32852 Jun 25 1995 DEUTSCH
drwx--x--t 7 kai kai 4096 Dez 4 1992 devs
-rw------- 1 kai kai 632 Jan 6 1996 Devs.info
-rw------- 1 kai kai 612 Dez 4 1994 Disk.info
-rwx--x--x 1 kai kai 24371 Okt 25 1998 E II 18.TXT
-rwx--x--x 1 kai kai 386 Okt 25 1998 E II 18.TXT.info
drwx--x--t 2 kai kai 4096 Feb 25 1995 Expansion
-rw------- 1 kai kai 632 Dez 4 1994 Expansion.info
drwx--x--t 2 kai kai 4096 Mär 20 22:12 F1.Saves
-rw-rw-r-- 1 kai kai 33 Mär 20 22:12 F1.Saves.uaem
drwx--x--t 2 kai kai 4096 Dez 4 1994 FD1.3
drwx--x--t 37 kai kai 4096 Mai 9 2001 fonts
-rwx--x--x 1 kai kai 118416 Okt 12 1993 HDInstTools
-rw------- 1 kai kai 913 Dez 4 1994 HDInstTools.info
drwx--x--t 3 kai kai 4096 Feb 24 1995 l
drwx--x--t 2 kai kai 4096 Mai 31 1995 libs
-rwx--x--x 1 kai kai 455 Aug 11 1993 LiesMich
-rw------- 1 kai kai 536 Dez 4 1994 LiesMich.info
drwx--x--t 3 kai kai 4096 Jan 9 1998 link
-rw------- 1 kai kai 628 Jan 9 1998 link.info
drwx--x--t 5 kai kai 4096 Feb 24 1995 Locale
drwxr-xr-x 2 kai kai 4096 Sep 1 2000 lost+found
drwx--x--t 2 kai kai 4096 Okt 4 1998 Mülltonne
-rw------- 1 kai kai 1172 Dez 4 1994 Mülltonne.info
drwx--x--t 4 kai kai 4096 Jul 26 1995 Prefs
-rw------- 1 kai kai 724 Dez 4 1994 Prefs.info
drwx--x--t 2 kai kai 4096 Dez 4 1992 Rexxc
drwx--x--t 2 kai kai 4096 Mär 25 1978 s
-rw------- 1 kai kai 927 Dez 4 1994 Shell.info
drwx--x--t 8 kai kai 4096 Aug 8 2014 Spiele
-rw------- 1 kai kai 632 Dez 4 1994 Spiele.info
-rw-rw-r-- 1 kai kai 33 Aug 8 2014 Spiele.uaem
drwx--x--t 6 kai kai 4096 Feb 24 1995 Storage
-rw------- 1 kai kai 632 Dez 4 1994 Storage.info
drwx--x--t 3 kai kai 4096 Feb 24 1995 System
-rw------- 1 kai kai 632 Dez 4 1994 System.info
drwx--x--t 2 kai kai 4096 Mär 13 1995 t
drwx--x--t 2 kai kai 4096 Okt 25 1998 Textomat
-rw------- 1 kai kai 628 Okt 25 1998 Textomat.info
drwx--x--t 9 kai kai 4096 Mai 24 1998 Tools
-rw------- 1 kai kai 628 Dez 4 1994 Tools.info
drwx--x--t 2 kai kai 4096 Dez 4 1994 Utilities
-rw------- 1 kai kai 632 Dez 4 1994 Utilities.info
drwx--x--t 10 kai kai 4096 Aug 5 1995 Utils
-rw------- 1 kai kai 632 Dez 4 1994 Utils.info
drwx--x--t 2 kai kai 4096 Dez 11 1978 WBStartup
-rw------- 1 kai kai 632 Dez 4 1994 WBStartup.info
drwx--x--t 2 kai kai 4096 Okt 4 1998 ZIP201X
And yes, I did play F1GP this year. TWP really did trigger a bit of nostalgia 
. And a boxed copy is simply part of that!
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Don’t know this one, I’ve played Grand Prix Circuit (and I actually played the motorcycle version around last year once again).
Yes, Grand Prix Circuit. I often played it in the early 90s. It was really fun sometimes. I remember that we divided the “job” into two parts sometimes: One of us was steering while someone else accelerated and braked. A kind of self-made co-op.
Geoff Crammond’s Formula 1 Grand Prix is the one I was referring to. Never heard of the other one 
Grand Prix Circuit was very famous. The developers made the “Test Drive” series:
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Hehe.
From the Wikipedia article:
A Computer Gaming World review had mixed feelings about the game, noting the controls, which governed steering, acceleration, and shifting all at the same time, took so long to get used to that the reviewer ended up asking a friend to do shifting for him.
Okay, it’s long ago. I remember that we were in a threesome, so shifting might have been the job of the third one of us.
Oh, guys, if you want to open a thread about retro driving games, I’m definitely into it.
Then just create one. 
(For example make a poll about the best driving game…)
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Yeah, seems like we completely derailed that one. Sorry!
*off looking for that new topic*
I created one for you.
A little news for the wise guys who backed the game:
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I’m camping already!
Yay! Excited!
Mine arrived! However, I’m not going to be home for the next few weeks so I’ll have to wait a bit more to see it.
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I got my shipping notification… I’m at the mailbox, camping out already!
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The record for camping-at-the-mailbox-without-moving is currently 5 days. (Then the post man came.)
I think I can top that. 
Hi ! I’m a backed the game, and, I still have not received an email regarding my collector! Is this normal? Thank you.