Where time stood still. Where to get an .st image?

[_ThEcRoW]

Hello guys, i'm trying to find this game, i found on a site a disk image, but it is a .stx and i don't know how to write back to disk. I tried one automation disk that has the game, but when select it from the menu, it justs get back to tos desktop. I assume that it was a bad crack and the game won't start.

Anyone?

Thanks in advance!!!

[Charlie_]

Try here:

http://www.thegamear...0_4_25_0_23_1_0

 

Edit: Nevermind that is the STX also...

 

I'll keep looking....

Edited June 17, 2012 by Official Ninja

[Charlie_]

Hello guys, i'm trying to find this game, i found on a site a disk image, but it is a .stx and i don't know how to write back to disk. I tried one automation disk that has the game, but when select it from the menu, it justs get back to tos desktop. I assume that it was a bad crack and the game won't start.

Anyone?

Thanks in advance!!!

 

Ok the automation disk 19 works but you have to select 50Hz before starting the game.

I tested it to start on my 1040STFM Tos1.0 and STE Tos1.62.

Enjoy. If you can't get your working I'll attach the version I have here.

[_ThEcRoW]

Cool, will try the automation disk with 50 hz option. Will post the results.

[_ThEcRoW]

Tried the automation disk, and used 50hz mode, but still it didn't work. I tried to google a .st version, but seems that is nearly impossible.

Has anyone a .st image of this game?

[ParanoidLittleMan]

Strange. Only 1 crack available ? I would not say that it is bad crack, just that works not on some configurations.

Anyway, I will do ST/MSA + hard disk installable 'cracks' in days. Hopefully, STX is error-free.

[_ThEcRoW]

Thanks for the help ParanoidLittleMan. I'll wait anxiously for your .st cracks. It's interesting that no .st image is on the net, at least i didn't find it.

[ParanoidLittleMan]

I have in my collection some 4 different cracks of this. But made own, + harddisk runnable (protection is joke).

 

http://atari.8bitchip.info/ASTGA/W/wheretss.php

http://atari.8bitchip.info/SCRSH/wheretss.html

 

New things in above hard disk adapt.: overscan intro pic for ST(E), Falcon, TT intro pic show from regular BMP file.

[_ThEcRoW]

Thanks for the image!. I put it in a floppy and tried to boot it, but it appeared to run, then, bring back to the gem desktop. I have noted that the image is a 400kb one, and the format used in floimg was of 720, because the others were too short to use. How is the optimum way to write back the image to floppy?. Is there any trick in floimg for disks that size?.

Thanks in advance!!!

[ParanoidLittleMan]

There is no special format 720 in FloImg. It works geometry based. CHS parameters - in case of 400KB floppy it is 1 side, 10 sectors/track and 80 tracks. Very common format.

You should see those parameters after opening image file. If writing was OK, it may be that reading with Atari is unreliable. Or you have some failure im machine.

Btw. what TOS version ?

 

You may try following to increase readibility on Atari: format floppy on Atari, but not with Desktop formatter - there is a lot of SW capable to fromat 10 s/track. Just set above parameters or 400K format. Then insert in PC, and check off format in FloImg, and click write ... If getting error messages like RNF then there is very likely head misalign between floppy drives case.

[_ThEcRoW]

The disk was formatted previously on the atari, and on another disks or images it doesn't fail. Will try the suggestion on formatting with another tool.

On the other hand, floimg didn't report anything wrong, just that the writing was ok, but the image was smaller that the disk format(400kb vs 720kb of the disk). Other than that, it went ok. Will try your suggestions and report here the results.

Thanks and happy new year to all!

[ParanoidLittleMan]

Happy New Year

 

Fact that on floppy writes something like 720K means nothing. It will have format/capacity according to what SW for formatting creates. Many of original games were distributed on SS floppies, formatted to 400K - and it stays for this game too. And all it was on 720K floppies. So, I'm not who invented 400K format

 

To be sure that you write it correctly, do following: after writing image onto floppy, make test image by clicking Floppy to Image - give some other name. Then compare it with source file. Simplest is with Total Commander. If images are not same, you set something wrong. If are same, then something from what said in previous post.

[tjlazer]

Hmmm been having trouble getting this to work, in STeem or on real hardware. Found the problem! It NEEDS a UK TOS to run! Weird, the first game I found like this... Any patched version out there that will work with other TOS's?

[ParanoidLittleMan]

Hmmm been having trouble getting this to work, in STeem or on real hardware. Found the problem! It NEEDS a UK TOS to run! Weird, the first game I found like this... Any patched version out there that will work with other TOS's?

Not just UK TOS is OK, but any TOS working at 50Hz . I updated floppy version, so it works now at 60 Hz too, so with US TOS versions.

http://atari.8bitchip.info/ASTGA/W/wheretss.php

[tjlazer]

Thanks!