_The Doctor__ Posted September 25, 2018 Share Posted September 25, 2018 side 0 raw 00.0.raw side 1 raw 00.1.raw interesting if the original drive encoded somewhere in the data what head it was using... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckybuck Posted September 26, 2018 Share Posted September 26, 2018 Thanks DjayBee, maybe we can update the FAQ in the Wiki at the JHV in Herten? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ijor Posted September 26, 2018 Share Posted September 26, 2018 (edited) side 0 raw 00.0.raw side 1 raw 00.1.raw interesting if the original drive encoded somewhere in the data what head it was using... Usually not. Actually, most original Atari 8-bit flippies were recorded just as regular users did, flipping the disk. So in most cases both sides were recorded with the same head. Edited September 26, 2018 by ijor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zarxx Posted September 28, 2018 Share Posted September 28, 2018 Latest eBay grabs. Manuals/scans included. https://drive.google.com/file/d/12JX5VpOi5AsE4zNLBMSC1ovUurnRq9v_/view?usp=sharing 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farb Posted September 28, 2018 Author Share Posted September 28, 2018 Thank you mikic and Zarxx for your recent contributions! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckybuck Posted September 28, 2018 Share Posted September 28, 2018 Thank you mikic and Zarxx, you are of great help! :-) Please go ahead! :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nezgar Posted October 29, 2018 Share Posted October 29, 2018 Seller in Germany closing his shop, selling off Atari 8-bit inventory with lists and photos provided in the marketplace forum, maybe some things needed for these preservation efforts? http://atariage.com/forums/topic/284417-shop-closure-atari-8-bit-software/?fbclid=IwAR1z51JCCvo4xN0FgFS2SGvboTfHXHtqOXxW05GAc8Q7sYV22XSRhwaWgNE 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farb Posted October 31, 2018 Author Share Posted October 31, 2018 Seller in Germany closing his shop, selling off Atari 8-bit inventory with lists and photos provided in the marketplace forum, maybe some things needed for these preservation efforts? Thanks for pointing this out. I contacted the seller since he is located about 2.5 hours from my home to see if he‘d let me dump some of it before he sells it. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zarxx Posted November 5, 2018 Share Posted November 5, 2018 These are all the disks where Kryoflux's .atr output is unreadable. No luck with a8rawconv to convert the .raw streams to a working .atr/.atx. ** Note: The Eternal Dagger disks are the same as I listed in a prior post. If you downloaded them already they're the same. Repaired and re-skewed. Panzer-Jagd (1983)(Avalon Hill)(US)BASIC.zip Repaired Clear for Action (1984)(Avalon Hill)(US)BASIC.zip 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikic Posted November 6, 2018 Share Posted November 6, 2018 (edited) Excellent, Zarx! That completes successful emulator capable conversions of all my Atari floppy collection. Official count: Floppy 25/25 Cassette 8/10 ( Conflict 2500 and VC unable to convert to working .cas) The raw .wav dumps are slightly larger than the 50mb max upload size here. Happy to upload all 10 .wavs if someone creates a shared drive on Google or similar. ------------------------------------- Apple Collection B-1 Nuclear Bomber Baltic 1985 Battlegroup Bomb Alley Carriers at War Close Assault Computer Air Combat v1.1 Conflict 2500 Cosmic Balance, The Darkhorn Dnieper River Line Eagles Gemstone Healer Geopolitique Guadalcanal Campaign Guns of Fort Defiance Knights of the Desert Midway Campaign Napoleon's Campaigns 1813 & 1815 North Atlantic '86 North Atlantic Convoy Raider Norway 1985 Operation Apocalypse Operation Market Garden Panzer Strike President Elect Pursuit of the Graf Spee Shard of Spring Sons of Liberty Stocks & Bonds Tanktics Torpedo Fire Typhoon of Steel Under Fire! War in the South Pacific Warp Factor, The Gato Pete was able to dump the disks/cassettes to .raw/.wav successfully, but I was only able to convert to following to emulator working .dsk/,nib format with a8rawconv: Battlegroup Carriers at War Gemstone Healer Norway 1985 Panzer Strike Sons of Liberty Typhoon of Steel Anyone have any Apple II skills and want to take a crack at these? Happy to upload! Edited November 6, 2018 by mikic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zarxx Posted November 6, 2018 Share Posted November 6, 2018 (edited) Finally got some time to hit another small stack of disks I've had sitting here for ages. Some were really rough (Alligator Mix in particular was super-scratchy and sluffing oxide, unfortunately). I tried a few ATX conversions just to be sure I had the drive set up right, but didn't go through all so I can't vouch for overall quality. Do we want more images of ANTIC disks? (there were a few more I didn't run this time) https://www.dropbox.com/s/k0gpayt5ygwygkx/Atari%20Disk%20Images%2C%20Clay%20Cowgill%2C%20batch%207.zip?dl=0 Repaired Alligator Mix (1984)(DLM)(US).zip HomePak (1984)(Batteries Included)(CA).zip Edited November 6, 2018 by Zarxx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zarxx Posted November 6, 2018 Share Posted November 6, 2018 F_NOT_OK - These dumbs are not running. All MFM games are missing the ATX file. The dump I have written back to a floppy disk and then tested for function. Battle Ships.zip Added B Side. D-Bug.zip Requires NTSC, adjusted timing and re-dumped. Fort Apocalypse.zip Requires BASIC Operation Blood.zip Special Forces.zip I can confirm these work when written back to disk but unable to create an ATX/ATR due to ED and protection. Both need 64k+ and write protect off required for OB. Silent Service - Bad disk/blank dump T-34 - The Battle.zip Created ATR which load fine as no protection. Seems to need 128k+ to run. The Pharoah's Curse - Looks like an old Dos/data disk. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zarxx Posted November 6, 2018 Share Posted November 6, 2018 Mixed batch of originals from eBay. Some boxed with instructions, some disk only. All scanned. ** I noticed that this Trivial Pursuit checks for a weak sector which is different from the others we have. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wxEz-v3xzCIapwrvXYDJseZE58nzJZlV/view?usp=sharing 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBen Posted November 6, 2018 Share Posted November 6, 2018 Battle Ships.zip Added B Side. D-Bug.zip Requires NTSC, adjusted timing and re-dumped. Fort Apocalypse.zip Requires BASIC Operation Blood.zip Special Forces.zip I can confirm these work when written back to disk but unable to create an ATX/ATR due to ED and protection. Both need 64k+ and write protect off required for OB. Silent Service - Bad disk/blank dump T-34 - The Battle.zip Created ATR which load fine as no protection. Seems to need 128k+ to run. The Pharoah's Curse - Looks like an old Dos/data disk. Capture.JPGCapture 2.JPG Zarxx, great work! Thanks for the floppies analysis of my dumps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zarxx Posted November 7, 2018 Share Posted November 7, 2018 Few more today. ** Boulder Dash II has a slightly different protection, works from disk but not ATX. Zarxx_07_11_2018.zip 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted November 7, 2018 Share Posted November 7, 2018 idk, try again using a disk that never was formatted or anything before... sometimes it's the place where scp starts reading and sometimes it can be the disk was formatted and the data of the format or old data messes up the stream being written. stuff isn't truely empty or devoid of data. so give it another whirl, don't forget about clean drive heads either... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farb Posted November 7, 2018 Author Share Posted November 7, 2018 Wow, thank you Zarxx! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avanze Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 Always nice to see Atari Smash Hits! Thanks for the upload. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ijor Posted November 8, 2018 Share Posted November 8, 2018 (edited) ** Boulder Dash II has a slightly different protection, works from disk but not ATX. Seems one sector on track 39 is slightly damaged. Probably it is "borderline" and reads ok after so many retries. It is precisely one of those dup sectors that Databyte protections retries ad infinitum. That might explains why it does work from disk. And that might also explain why it is damaged I didn't perform a full comparison, but it seems (about) the same as the one on the Torrent. These Databyte releases sometimes have minor variations that are probably a consequence of the duplication process they used. Edited November 8, 2018 by ijor 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zarxx Posted November 26, 2018 Share Posted November 26, 2018 idk, try again using a disk that never was formatted or anything before... sometimes it's the place where scp starts reading and sometimes it can be the disk was formatted and the data of the format or old data messes up the stream being written. stuff isn't truely empty or devoid of data. so give it another whirl, don't forget about clean drive heads either... Seems one sector on track 39 is slightly damaged. Probably it is "borderline" and reads ok after so many retries. It is precisely one of those dup sectors that Databyte protections retries ad infinitum. That might explains why it does work from disk. And that might also explain why it is damaged I didn't perform a full comparison, but it seems (about) the same as the one on the Torrent. These Databyte releases sometimes have minor variations that are probably a consequence of the duplication process they used. Tried dumping with different drives but no change, unfortunately still gets stuck on 704 with the ATX. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DjayBee Posted November 26, 2018 Share Posted November 26, 2018 Tried dumping with different drives but no change, unfortunately still gets stuck on 704 with the ATX. Repaired bad instance of sector 704. Boulder Dash II (1985)(Databyte)(GB)(PAL)alt(repaired).zip 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zarxx Posted November 26, 2018 Share Posted November 26, 2018 Couple of things. Voodoo Castle looks like it's a deprotected copy as no missing/bad sectors on either side (compared to the other SAGA's). I've dumped the original and created another set with the map and bad sectors from The Count. If someone wants to check the code... Stone of Sisyphus is just the A side, B was blank and just the one disk. I've added another B side for completion (seems unprotected). Scans included. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1824n89sBx_35HwCJ6djW4KUsBSYNuLzS/view?usp=sharing 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
advfan Posted November 27, 2018 Share Posted November 27, 2018 Hi. On the US Ebay there is a seller (icbkr) that has 12 lots of original disks up for auction. There are no manuals or boxes, just the disks. There is nothing really rare, but some lots have some stuff where we don't have the disk version. I just wanted to find out that there is no one else here planning to bid for the same items, so that we don't outbid each other on items that are being acquired for the same purpose by both parties. I'm not interested in the physical possession of the disks, in fact, I would tell the seller to send them directly to Farb or another person that can create ATXs from them. Auctions end some 33 hours after this post, so please let me know in advance if possible. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred_M Posted November 27, 2018 Share Posted November 27, 2018 Couple of things. Voodoo Castle looks like it's a deprotected copy as no missing/bad sectors on either side (compared to the other SAGA's). I've dumped the original and created another set with the map and bad sectors from The Count. If someone wants to check the code... Stone of Sisyphus is just the A side, B was blank and just the one disk. I've added another B side for completion (seems unprotected). Scans included. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D1FyFao99I1t6hYoTmSMPSpSgl4_ZwS0/view?usp=sharing Ehm.... You have posted 3 titles by Powersoft/Pro©Atari. Caveblaster, Ransack and Thetris. I think the boxed versions of these games differ (a bit) from the public ATR's which are available all over the internet. As these boxed versions are still commercially available, I am not sure if these dumps of the boxed versions can be made public... Maybe someone can ask Markus? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zarxx Posted November 27, 2018 Share Posted November 27, 2018 Ehm.... You have posted 3 titles by Powersoft/Pro©Atari. Caveblaster, Ransack and Thetris. I think the boxed versions of these games differ (a bit) from the public ATR's which are available all over the internet. As these boxed versions are still commercially available, I am not sure if these dumps of the boxed versions can be made public... Maybe someone can ask Markus? Ah. Apologies. Removed and link updated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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