Blue Ribbon Games Disk #1 problem

[olavese@online.no]

I have this original disk and it seems it's been corrupted. I managed to copy all sectors, except 380, 394, 402, 637, 659 and 705. I do believe it's copy protected, but now I wonder if anyone could hack this? See if you can bypass the copy protection. Not sure all games still would work, but then I'd try really hard to get the remaining sectors copied. I did manage after repeated attempts to recover an additional 5 sectors that was also corrupted the first time I copied it.

 

Anyone up for it?

 

The games I think is not that common ... They are Diamond Mine, Screwball, Darts, Castle Asssault and Nightmare Maze

Blue Ribbon No 1.ATR

[Rybags]

Shouldn't all those games be online @ Atarimania, Fandal's or one of the other archives?

 

I've got at least 2 of them on floppy, I don't think the others are on the missing list.

 

I doubt it's protection - they're games from different companies and I don't even know if Screwball was a commercial game if it's the porno pinball game I've got.

Edited January 29, 2011 by Rybags

[olavese@online.no]

Shouldn't all those games be online @ Atarimania, Fandal's or one of the other archives?

 

I've got at least 2 of them on floppy, I don't think the others are on the missing list.

 

I doubt it's protection - they're games from different companies and I don't even know if Screwball was a commercial game if it's the porno pinball game I've got.

 

Sure these are the same? It's on a disk, with no directory and I have a feeling 705 is supposed to be bad ... Only sector that has that grinding noise.

[Rybags]

No, different Darts and Screwball to the ones I have.

 

If you upload the ATR here, someone could probably have a look at it. If some of the bad sectors are supposed to be program data, it could probably be patched in using another copy of the games.

[phaeron]

It's an Atari DOS 3 disk... someone actually used that?

[_Fandal_]

Hi!

 

I created file versions of all those Blue Ribbon games some time ago. You can find them on my site.

 

Anyway, your disk is really corrupted, though you can run something. Boot your disk with BASIC on and then type RUN "D:CASTLE0" or RUN "D:MAZE0" or RUN "D:DARTS0". Castle Assault and Darts seem to work fine, Nightmare Maze loads but it's corrupted. Diamond Mine and Screwball seem to be dead (MINE0 and SCREW0). BTW, I think that your orignal disk is medium, not single, isn't it?

 

F.

[olavese@online.no]

Hi!

 

I created file versions of all those Blue Ribbon games some time ago. You can find them on my site.

 

Anyway, your disk is really corrupted, though you can run something. Boot your disk with BASIC on and then type RUN "D:CASTLE0" or RUN "D:MAZE0" or RUN "D:DARTS0". Castle Assault and Darts seem to work fine, Nightmare Maze loads but it's corrupted. Diamond Mine and Screwball seem to be dead (MINE0 and SCREW0). BTW, I think that your orignal disk is medium, not single, isn't it?

 

F.

 

I really thought it was copy protected, as my DTI Duplicator just found blank sectors on it. And I tried a directory on DOS 2.6f, but nothing came up. Now I understand why :-) I didn't even think DOS 3, that anyone actually used it commercially :-)

 

Thanks guys, then there's probably no menu on it, so I can just copy the files to an empty disk ... Appreciate your inputs

[olavese@online.no]

Hi!

 

I created file versions of all those Blue Ribbon games some time ago. You can find them on my site.

 

Anyway, your disk is really corrupted, though you can run something. Boot your disk with BASIC on and then type RUN "D:CASTLE0" or RUN "D:MAZE0" or RUN "D:DARTS0". Castle Assault and Darts seem to work fine, Nightmare Maze loads but it's corrupted. Diamond Mine and Screwball seem to be dead (MINE0 and SCREW0). BTW, I think that your orignal disk is medium, not single, isn't it?

 

F.

 

I really thought it was copy protected, as my DTI Duplicator just found blank sectors on it. And I tried a directory on DOS 2.6f, but nothing came up. Now I understand why :-) I didn't even think DOS 3, that anyone actually used it commercially :-)

 

Thanks guys, then there's probably no menu on it, so I can just copy the files to an empty disk ... Appreciate your inputs

 

Sorry to bug you so much, but does anyone have the BASIC files? XEX's on Fandals site is okay, but I would have loved to make this disk complete again. I did manage to copy the menu and autorun.sys files, so if I could get the un-modified basic files, I'd be very happy. No one out there that has this disk?

 

Or if anyone has a good sector copier that would try a little more than the ones I have ... Dos 2.6f tries 9 times on each sector at max and Enhanced Density Copier does two or three I think ... Because some of the sectors can be read sometimes and it would be nice to not have to punch in start sector, end sector, destination, source and such all the time. A retry function would help, but a 255 times retry would rule :-)

[_Fandal_]

 

Sorry to bug you so much, but does anyone have the BASIC files? XEX's on Fandals site is okay, but I would have loved to make this disk complete again. I did manage to copy the menu and autorun.sys files, so if I could get the un-modified basic files, I'd be very happy. No one out there that has this disk?

 

Or if anyone has a good sector copier that would try a little more than the ones I have ... Dos 2.6f tries 9 times on each sector at max and Enhanced Density Copier does two or three I think ... Because some of the sectors can be read sometimes and it would be nice to not have to punch in start sector, end sector, destination, source and such all the time. A retry function would help, but a 255 times retry would rule :-)

 

I converted all those games from tape images downloaded from Atarimania. You can extract BASIC files from those CAS images as well if you really need all BASIC and binary files saved separately. But it would take some work.

 

I usually use Sectorcopy 1.5 for copying disks. It is very primitive tool but it works fine. And you can try to read bad sector for unlimited times by pressing START. Check the attachment.

 

F.

Sectorcopy_1.5.zip

[olavese@online.no]

 

Sorry to bug you so much, but does anyone have the BASIC files? XEX's on Fandals site is okay, but I would have loved to make this disk complete again. I did manage to copy the menu and autorun.sys files, so if I could get the un-modified basic files, I'd be very happy. No one out there that has this disk?

 

Or if anyone has a good sector copier that would try a little more than the ones I have ... Dos 2.6f tries 9 times on each sector at max and Enhanced Density Copier does two or three I think ... Because some of the sectors can be read sometimes and it would be nice to not have to punch in start sector, end sector, destination, source and such all the time. A retry function would help, but a 255 times retry would rule :-)

 

I converted all those games from tape images downloaded from Atarimania. You can extract BASIC files from those CAS images as well if you really need all BASIC and binary files saved separately. But it would take some work.

 

I usually use Sectorcopy 1.5 for copying disks. It is very primitive tool but it works fine. And you can try to read bad sector for unlimited times by pressing START. Check the attachment.

 

F.

 

Thank you, will try that one ... Shouldn't really bother, but it would be nice to have the complete image, as it's suppose to be. Thanks again