+DjayBee Posted February 7, 2019 Author Share Posted February 7, 2019 Is this something some of the resident code-wizards would be interested in doing? If so, thanks in advance. The Activision release of The Eidolon uses a different loader which might work with SIDEloader. Please give it a try. It is part of Farb's latest torrent. Eidolon, The (1986)(Activision)(GB)cr CSS.atr 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DrVenkman Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 The Activision release of The Eidolon uses a different loader which might work with SIDEloader. Please give it a try. It is part of Farb's latest torrent. Thank you, I will give that a try this weekend when I get some time with my real hardware. (P.S. I was unaware Activision ever had a release of this game!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddtmw Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 Bump. I have an Eclaire now, so any new cracks? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DjayBee Posted July 29, 2019 Author Share Posted July 29, 2019 7 hours ago, toddtmw said: Bump. I have an Eclaire now, so any new cracks? Only a hand full. It put cracking on a hold until I am able to upload all my stuff (incl. documentation) to archive.org - which I finally am very close to. 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred_M Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 On 2/8/2019 at 12:45 AM, DrVenkman said: (P.S. I was unaware Activision ever had a release of this game!) Activision UK released many Lucasfilm games on tape and disk in Europe 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DrVenkman Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 5 hours ago, DjayBee said: Only a hand full. It put cracking on a hold until I am able to upload all my stuff (incl. documentation) to archive.org - which I finally am very close to. Thank you all you’ve done in this regard over the years, by the way. I LOVE being able to write one of your clean files to a floppy and then boot the game in an actual disk drive occasionally. My CF card and SIO2PC-USB solutions are certainly faster and more convenient, but nowhere near as nostalgic. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrandviewCoin Posted July 31, 2019 Share Posted July 31, 2019 Whoa, I guess I am confused. Can these cracked games be re-written back to a real floppy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DjayBee Posted July 31, 2019 Author Share Posted July 31, 2019 5 minutes ago, GrandviewCoin said: Whoa, I guess I am confused. Can these cracked games be re-written back to a real floppy? They are just plain ATR disk image files with their protection removed. They can be written back like any other ATR image, i.e. by using a sector copier on the Atari, reading from SIO2SD or SIO2PC and writing to a stock Atari disk drive. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blacka013 Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 Hi, not sure if I'm doing something wrong, but I can't get the Music Construction Set from post 65 to work. Can I write this out to a physical disk, or do I need to run it in Altirra? Regards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blacka013 Posted September 6, 2019 Share Posted September 6, 2019 OK, I have tried The Music Construction Set In Altirra and it loads and runs, along with the Eidelon and Seven Cities of Gold. So not sure why these won't load and run when copied to disk on a stock 1050 disk drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted September 6, 2019 Share Posted September 6, 2019 Are you sure you are disabling BASIC when booting these? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blacka013 Posted September 6, 2019 Share Posted September 6, 2019 Hi Mac, yes, I'm holding down the Option key when turning on the computer. I am using Mycopyr! 2.1 to transfer the .atr file to disk on the stock 1050. I've also run the 1050 diagnostic disk and it passes all the tests not requiring the Dymek disk. Regards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 6, 2019 Share Posted September 6, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, blacka013 said: OK, I have tried The Music Construction Set In Altirra and it loads and runs, along with the Eidelon and Seven Cities of Gold. So not sure why these won't load and run when copied to disk on a stock 1050 disk drive. some questions: ■ how far do any of these get when booting on real hardware? ■ what sio2pc hardware are you using? atarimax/lotharek/Megahtz/Atari8Warez? ■ what software are you using? ape+prosystem/AspeQt/other? Edited September 6, 2019 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blacka013 Posted September 6, 2019 Share Posted September 6, 2019 (edited) Hi Brenski, about 20 seconds before the disk stops loading. I have tried loading the .ATR file through AspeQt, and it will not load. I'm using the Lotharek 10502PC Sio2PC USB Regards Edited September 6, 2019 by blacka013 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 6, 2019 Share Posted September 6, 2019 could you upload the ATR files here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blacka013 Posted September 6, 2019 Share Posted September 6, 2019 Hi brenski, here are the files. Music Construction Set.atr Seven Cities of Gold, The (Side A)[black disk].atr Seven Cities of Gold, The (Side B)[!][black disk].atr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted September 6, 2019 Share Posted September 6, 2019 Music Construction Set still has EA speed checks (as do the other two), make sure the SD adaptor has not upgraded the transfer rate or these titles will fail to boot, they must boot at pure standard drive speed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DjayBee Posted September 6, 2019 Author Share Posted September 6, 2019 I cannot help at all because the EA cracks were done by Diaperboy who disappeared shortly after posting the cracks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blacka013 Posted September 6, 2019 Share Posted September 6, 2019 Hi Mac, aspeQt high speed baud rate set to 1900, as this is the lowest speed available. I have tried setting the Com port speed to 9600 in device manager, but this gets over ridden by aspeQt. Regards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blacka013 Posted September 6, 2019 Share Posted September 6, 2019 Hi DjayBee, thanks for the info. Looks like I will have to give this up. Regards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted September 6, 2019 Share Posted September 6, 2019 (edited) Sorry I can't help more either, I use an SD-Max and my old SD2USB was a really basic model which like my real machines got stored out of the way as my man cave is actually me and my wifes bedroom so I can't have too much gear out (as they say). Have not even had a chance to test that atr on the SD-Max. Pretty sure its the timing as all three are EA titles who are sods for timing checks to stop Happy drives loading their stuff unless they were in Un-Happy mode....Funky load speeds would cause the same thing.. If I get a chance I'll have a look at Aspeqt and some real hardware over the weekend.. Edited September 6, 2019 by Mclaneinc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle22 Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 Try the latest version of RespeQt. I think this is newest: Look through the files. Find the newest ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 he's not looking for protection in, he's looking for it all stripped out, I guess so it's probably so the games can run from all devices. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FULS Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 On 7/29/2019 at 2:27 AM, DjayBee said: Only a hand full. It put cracking on a hold until I am able to upload all my stuff (incl. documentation) to archive.org - which I finally am very close to. Love your work, DjayBee. Are your cracks on archive.org? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DjayBee Posted July 24, 2020 Author Share Posted July 24, 2020 19 hours ago, FULS said: Are your cracks on archive.org? Not yet. I was caught up with too many other things. Due to the way I intend to present them, I must preprocess everything. You will find them eventually here https://archive.org/details/@cs_stuttgart where currently only a few test uploads can be found. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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