erichenneke Posted January 7, 2017 Share Posted January 7, 2017 (edited) I started going through all my floppies from back in the day. There are a LOT. Over 300 disks, and almost all of them are 2-sided "flippies" with about 4-5 games on each side. I've gone through about half of them so far. I have been pleasantly surprised that all of them have read perfectly so far. No issues. As I have been going through them all and archiving them to my PC as ATR files, I have been doing searches on the games on a few online game data base sites ( atarionline.pl, atari.vjetnam.cz, atarmania.com ) and I have to say that I am pretty impressed at how much is already posted online in tese databases! After going through almost 2000 games i have only run across a handful that don't seem to be readily available on those databases. That's pretty cool to see that so much is so easily accessible. That said, I thought I'd post the few that SEEMED to be a bit more obscure. I am not saying they are necessarily obscure, but at least I didn't see them in those three databases I mentioned about. These include: - Speedbirds - Labyrinth of Kamerra The ATR also has Thrax Liar because initially I wasn't finding it on the databases, but I see that it is there now. Cool game though anyway. I will keep posting more if I run across others that don't seem to be readily available on those big databases. If you have interest in any of the files I am archiving ( i am making ATR's out of them all for my personal archive ) let me know. -Eric Edit: I see now that Labyrinths of Kamerra is also "out there" already. No surprise. Still not seeing Speedbirds anywhere so hopefully that one is "new" to some of you. OBSCURE1.atr Edited January 7, 2017 by erichenneke 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walter_J64bit Posted January 8, 2017 Share Posted January 8, 2017 Thanks! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lotek_style Posted January 8, 2017 Share Posted January 8, 2017 Really ancient stuff. If you find anything with crack-intros please let me know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erichenneke Posted January 9, 2017 Author Share Posted January 9, 2017 Ran across another good one that I didn't see readily available on other databases. Maze War mazewar.xex Really fun game. Again, I am only posting games that I run across that don't seem to easily be found out on the big databases. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SoulBuster Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 I have been doing something similar over the last 2 weeks. I have been taking the games off of disk and putting them on a HD Partition. Then testing what will load them. I have a 320XE with 3 OSs, Ultra Speed (most used), Standard XL/XE and FixXL. I start testing with 3 sector load menu program under Ultra speed OS. If that fails, I try FixXL. If it fails there, I try Ultra Speed OS and load with Sparta X (X <game name>). You would be shocked at how many load this way after the first 2 tests fail. But if that does fail, I dump them in a "nowork" folder and will try something else later. It is amazing that I have only tossed 6-7 disks in the trash out of approximately 150 disks. Well, only one was truly bad, the rest were single sided and would not format the other side. I have no use for single sided disks when I have well over 3,000 floppies. Really ancient stuff. If you find anything with crack-intros please let me know I have seen some cracked intros in my escapades. I will go back through and identify them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 Not seen Speedbirds till now, obviously made with Arcade Construction kit but not too bad, thanks for archiving it.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erichenneke Posted January 10, 2017 Author Share Posted January 10, 2017 Really ancient stuff. If you find anything with crack-intros please let me know Actually, quite a few. What specifically are you interested in ? Do you mean any game with a hacked intro ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SoulBuster Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 Actually, quite a few. What specifically are you interested in ? Do you mean any game with a hacked intro ? As the game is loading it shows a screen of who hacked it to make it distributable without copy protection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lotek_style Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 Actually, quite a few. What specifically are you interested in ? Do you mean any game with a hacked intro ? Well quite all cracks as I am planning to build a CrackDB for the 8bit sorted after groups/crackers... but esp. I am after the ones with neat crack-intros... Fujiology (my own archive) is the only archive covering these things yet and Demozoo is the graphical frontend: https://demozoo.org/productions/?platform=16&production_type=13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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