Mclaneinc Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 DejayBee, while you are about, as part of the Preservation team can you tell me what the (FW) means on the Dimension X atx..I'm presuming its firmware but in what context? As in which FW is needed.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DjayBee Posted July 24, 2020 Author Share Posted July 24, 2020 3 minutes ago, Mclaneinc said: can you tell me what the (FW) means on the Dimension X It means "Freeware" according to TOSEC's naming standard. IIRC Steve Hales has given permission to freely distribute all his games. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 8 minutes ago, DjayBee said: It means "Freeware" according to TOSEC's naming standard. IIRC Steve Hales has given permission to freely distribute all his games. Didn't know that (obviously), thanks for the info and reply.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacques Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 Hi @DjayBee would it be possible to prepare ATR of original ATX image of The Goonies (European) that has alternative title-music, please (attached)? That's the version I used to have on US Gold version bought on eBay UK not so long time ago, unfortunately it somehow got erased accidentally ? Thank you in advance Goonies, The (198x)(Ariolasoft)(DE)[disk].zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DjayBee Posted November 16, 2020 Author Share Posted November 16, 2020 (edited) 3 hours ago, Jacques said: would it be possible to prepare ATR of original ATX image of The Goonies (European) Here you go. Done more than a year ago, but not yet uploaded anywhere. Have fun Goonies, The (1985)(Ariolasoft - US Gold)(DE-GB)[!][cr CSS].atr Edited November 16, 2020 by DjayBee 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacques Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 Thank you, @DjayBee! Would it be possible to upload current set somewhere, please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacques Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 E.g. Dropzone would be welcome, too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DjayBee Posted November 17, 2020 Author Share Posted November 17, 2020 18 hours ago, Jacques said: Would it be possible to upload current set somewhere, please? This will happen eventually to archive.org. Dropzone must be part of the uploaded archives within this thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacques Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 Indeed, I totally missed other ATXCrack*.* files, now I got them all. Might be a good idea to link them all in the first posts until it lands on archive.org. But again, big thank you! ? P.S. I absolutely love CSS intro for Tigris from the era ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 how far along is the archive and is there a combined zip of this fine work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DjayBee Posted February 1, 2021 Author Share Posted February 1, 2021 On 1/29/2021 at 11:24 AM, _The Doctor__ said: how far along is the archive and is there a combined zip of this fine work? Over the weekend I started to verify that some 430 images work on real hardware. I did this the last time at the beginning of 2018, and these images have change since. When I am done with that, I keep my fingers crossed that the preparation scripts I wrote some two years ago in Python work well, and will start uploading. Yes, there will be a combined ZIP. 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SneakyPie Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 Hello, is there any progress yet? I am very interested in the ZIP archive with all the games ? Are there any other conversion of ATARI SMASH HITS? So Vol. 3-7 as ATR? Thank you for your great work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DjayBee Posted May 11, 2021 Author Share Posted May 11, 2021 On 5/8/2021 at 5:13 PM, SneakyPie said: Hello, is there any progress yet? I am very interested in the ZIP archive with all the games ? Are there any other conversion of ATARI SMASH HITS? So Vol. 3-7 as ATR? Thank you for your great work! Yes and yes. Stay tuned. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DjayBee Posted May 14, 2021 Author Share Posted May 14, 2021 Today I finally finished my processing and preparation scripts. As a first test, I updated and re-uploaded to archive.org all the images which I used for testing during the last three years. From now on you can watch my progress at https://archive.org/details/@cs_stuttgart I will not upload huge batches for the time being, because I had several corner cases where I had to adapt my scripts and expect more to come. So give me some time. When all images have been processed, I'll upload a full set to this very thread here on Atari Age. I cannot do it earlier, because only after processing all needed ATRs are in one place, where i can pick them up and ZIP them together. 7 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted May 15, 2021 Share Posted May 15, 2021 Thank you.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DjayBee Posted May 15, 2021 Author Share Posted May 15, 2021 On 5/8/2021 at 5:13 PM, SneakyPie said: Are there any other conversion of ATARI SMASH HITS? So Vol. 3-7 as ATR? Uploaded. Get them while they're hot from archive.org. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjlazer Posted May 16, 2021 Share Posted May 16, 2021 On 5/15/2021 at 5:20 AM, DjayBee said: Uploaded. Get them while they're hot from archive.org. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SneakyP Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 On 5/15/2021 at 2:20 PM, DjayBee said: Uploaded. Get them while they're hot from archive.org. Thanks a lot! ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DjayBee Posted May 21, 2021 Author Share Posted May 21, 2021 502 out of some 1000 images are uploaded. Still a long way to go. 4 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+remowilliams Posted May 21, 2021 Share Posted May 21, 2021 1 hour ago, DjayBee said: 502 out of some 1000 images are uploaded. Still a long way to go. Thanks for all the work and the great writeups on protection! I wrote a scraper to easily pull the goodies off of Archive collections like this 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Robot Posted May 21, 2021 Share Posted May 21, 2021 They have a very nice tool for creating lists of things to download http://blog.archive.org/2012/04/26/downloading-in-bulk-using-wget/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+gnusto Posted May 23, 2021 Share Posted May 23, 2021 For those that haven't looked, Djaybee is not only posting his cracks (which are the best form to me, absolute minimum required to remove copy protection), but he also explains each crack in detail with the archive.org posts, including a summary, disassembly, and comparison of the before and after states. It's really great stuff, I've found myself looking up a couple of games I tried to crack myself back in the day. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
em_kay Posted May 23, 2021 Share Posted May 23, 2021 awesome work :) are you going to upload Spelunker please as the protection on that one defeated me in the long distant past... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted May 23, 2021 Share Posted May 23, 2021 8 hours ago, gnusto said: For those that haven't looked, Djaybee is not only posting his cracks (which are the best form to me, absolute minimum required to remove copy protection), but he also explains each crack in detail with the archive.org posts, including a summary, disassembly, and comparison of the before and after states. It's really great stuff, I've found myself looking up a couple of games I tried to crack myself back in the day. Yes, its a truly wonderful bit of info for anyone wishing to learn protection techniques and how to bypass them. I love it, my knowledge peaked at bad sector protection, stuff like phantom sectors etc are just science fiction to me Thank you for the kind work Djbee, very very much appreciated.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DjayBee Posted May 23, 2021 Author Share Posted May 23, 2021 2 hours ago, em_kay said: awesome work are you going to upload Spelunker please as the protection on that one defeated me in the long distant past... thanks I uploaded the Broderbund release right now. I did not crack the original release by Micro GraphicImage yet. have fun 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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