atarialoha Posted May 12, 2021 Share Posted May 12, 2021 47 minutes ago, www.atarimania.com said: The problem is that there are still way too many pages / files that need to be updated. Some games date back to when we started the site and they need to be replaced with better versions. There are gradual changes being made but this takes a lot of time. Really, it would be a disservice to the community to release a half-baked effort on a wide scale right now. Can we not just have a current snapshot, literally just zip up all the files now, and then later release another archive every quarter or half year? I have visited a number of websites (community websites like this one) that got hacked over the years and literally everything was wiped. They tried to restore the forum messages, etc. but nobody had any good backup. Much was lost over the decades of community contributions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faicuai Posted May 12, 2021 Share Posted May 12, 2021 43 minutes ago, atarialoha said: look what happened just DAYS AGO to the pipeline! No doubt. And that is precisely the one I had in mind when I replied to your comment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atarialoha Posted May 12, 2021 Share Posted May 12, 2021 Just now, Faicuai said: No doubt. And that is precisely the one I had in mind when I replied to your comment. Can you imagine... banking? Gonna be crazy... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted May 12, 2021 Author Share Posted May 12, 2021 49 minutes ago, atarialoha said: Can we not just have a current snapshot, literally just zip up all the files now, and then later release another archive every quarter or half year? Sorry but I know this wouldn't be a good idea right now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted May 15, 2021 Author Share Posted May 15, 2021 Courtesy of @cx2k (John Hardie) again, here are some mega rare early applications released by Computer Consultants of Iowa: LockPik Master Disk Utility Man Here's another elusive title dumped by @StickJock several months ago that I completely forgot about: Journal Plus (Non-Standard Magic) 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted May 21, 2021 Share Posted May 21, 2021 I was going to type these in but @wesmond already did in 2019. Just a bump to see if we can get these added to the Atarimania database so all his hard work doesn't get wasted. http://forum.atarimania.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=18847 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted May 22, 2021 Author Share Posted May 22, 2021 All the programs are in the queue and will be added shortly. I hope contributors like @wesmond or @NuY don't feel like they worked hard for nothing, that's clearly not the case and we're not forgetting you. There's a LOT of stuff to go through in all areas and it takes time. Also, we don't always run a schedule of things to do so some updates may take longer than expected, though I understand several years is a long time! Thank you! 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted May 22, 2021 Author Share Posted May 22, 2021 OK, here's City Destroyer from Games Computing typed in and fixed by @wesmond: http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-city-destroyer_6624.html 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted May 23, 2021 Author Share Posted May 23, 2021 Two more from @cx2k: Mirror Image (Computer Consultants of Iowa) OSS Demonstration Disk (OSS, Inc.) AFAIK, the OSS Demonstration Disk had never been dumped. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wesmond Posted May 28, 2021 Share Posted May 28, 2021 (edited) On 5/22/2021 at 8:24 AM, www.atarimania.com said: All the programs are in the queue and will be added shortly. I hope contributors like @wesmond or @NuY don't feel like they worked hard for nothing, that's clearly not the case and we're not forgetting you. There's a LOT of stuff to go through in all areas and it takes time. Also, we don't always run a schedule of things to do so some updates may take longer than expected, though I understand several years is a long time! Thank you! This one's been waiting since 2012 http://forum.atarimania.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=17763 (or some bits have - Reaction Timer maybe! I know, it's a bit of a thriller...) Don't worry - it's no problem! I'm glad to help, and that they haven't been forgotten. It'll all get there in the end. Thanks for keeping going. Edited May 28, 2021 by wesmond More specific 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted May 28, 2021 Author Share Posted May 28, 2021 Here's the latest edition of our list of undumped software: List of Missing Software + V1.95.pdf Consider that there are hundreds of programs that didn't make it to this "want list" so I'd say there are at least 5,000 titles that still need to be found! The format hasn't been reworked yet and I know it's not ideal... Hopefully, we'll come up with something way better in the coming months. Speaking of type-ins, quite a number of them from magazines like ROM, Compute!, Inside Info, Teaching and Computers, Micro... are still missing and are on the list for reference. If there are volunteers, you know what to do 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tane Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 (edited) Telematica SA: MP3 - 1: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/2/folders/19tWJzMGNI5xqjfS8FMKniMl2kBOhsKv0 MP3 - 2: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Zc0xYl6uyX6JVz4uOzbsTX-928__qvdl WAV - 1: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/2/folders/12ukOrYkFmo7tkGsLkGd1qmh5PaHINkpx WAV - 2: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1QkN67ycR2mPH_GddVrV0wnjNDmQaP49F https://www.atariware.cl/wiki/Programas/SuperExaminador https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4fcP4WLukJaY0R6enlIaFYxQk0/view Prisma Soft & others: https://mega.nz/folder/iKYnQZKQ#m-w9PYcWmj1eaS9bwsGTVw https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByM0h5xqi0YsQW5hWHhJcWxOOUk/view https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByM0h5xqi0YsX290VV82Wk1tRFE/view cas.7z Edited May 29, 2021 by tane 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted May 29, 2021 Author Share Posted May 29, 2021 The main problem with titles that have an audio track is how huge they are when stored as .wav files. That's why there are so few Chilean tapes on the site for instance. I know there have been talks about implementing the .ogg format for cassettes in Altirra. That would definitely make things a bit easier as the programs would be a bit smaller. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted May 29, 2021 Author Share Posted May 29, 2021 Thanks to John Hardie, we now have the two missing revisions for Supersort by APX: Supersort (Revision 2.0) Supersort (Revision 3.0) I'm not entirely up-to-date with all editions of OSS programs available but I also added V1.2 of OS/A+: http://www.atarimania.com/utility-atari-400-800-xl-xe-os-a_19212.html 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tane Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 (edited) 7 hours ago, www.atarimania.com said: The main problem with titles that have an audio track is how huge they are when stored as .wav files. The link at Mega contains cas and xex files. For wav files conversion: a8cas. Edited May 29, 2021 by tane 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari_Ace Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 17 hours ago, www.atarimania.com said: Here's the latest edition of our list of undumped software: List of Missing Software + V1.95.pdf Consider that there are hundreds of programs that didn't make it to this "want list" so I'd say there are at least 5,000 titles that still need to be found! The format hasn't been reworked yet and I know it's not ideal... Hopefully, we'll come up with something way better in the coming months. Just for amusement, I converted this into a SQL database to be able to query it, e.g.: sqlite> SELECT COUNT(*) FROM missing WHERE note LIKE 'type-in%'; 114 sqlite> SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT(company)) FROM missing; 731 My conversion is certainly not perfect. I pasted the text into a file, adding line breaks between each company. I then wrote a parsing script with some simple header/footer detection (dropping the footers) and then proceeded to produce a table that was simply rows of (idx, company, title, note). I made that into a database by producing SQL commands to create the table, insert the rows, and create some indexes. It would be great to adopt some kind of text representation for this data to make it easier for people to explore the data however they want. Anyhow, I've attached my work for anyone who might want to use it. am195.zip 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted May 29, 2021 Author Share Posted May 29, 2021 We're not interested in tapes that have been stripped of the audio track if they originally had one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted May 29, 2021 Author Share Posted May 29, 2021 22 minutes ago, Atari_Ace said: Just for amusement, I converted this into a SQL database to be able to query it, e.g. Really great, thank you! Having a searchable online resource of this kind which could be easily updated is precisely what we want to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormtrooper of Death Posted June 2, 2021 Share Posted June 2, 2021 On 5/29/2021 at 6:43 PM, Atari_Ace said: Just for amusement, I converted this into a SQL database to be able to query it, e.g.: sqlite> SELECT COUNT(*) FROM missing WHERE note LIKE 'type-in%'; 114 sqlite> SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT(company)) FROM missing; 731 My conversion is certainly not perfect. I pasted the text into a file, adding line breaks between each company. I then wrote a parsing script with some simple header/footer detection (dropping the footers) and then proceeded to produce a table that was simply rows of (idx, company, title, note). I made that into a database by producing SQL commands to create the table, insert the rows, and create some indexes. It would be great to adopt some kind of text representation for this data to make it easier for people to explore the data however they want. Anyhow, I've attached my work for anyone who might want to use it. am195.zip 74.86 kB · 9 downloads I used to be a Micro$oft Access/Oracle/SQL/muSQL specialist in the 90s. If you need someone to make a nice graphical interface for the database to be used with Microsoft Access, IM me. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted June 7, 2021 Author Share Posted June 7, 2021 (edited) Just running some trials as I have a number of things to scan. Please let me know if the quality is acceptable and what can be improved (for one, I know some pages are not exactly straight). This is B & C Computervisions' public domain catalog dated August 31st, 1994: B & C Computervisions - PD Catalog - August 31st, 1994.pdf Incidentally, it would be great if someone had the following disks and could dump them as there are some missing games on them: PBC056 - Game Disk #10 PBC057 - Game Disk #11 PBC058 - Game Disk #12 PBC095 - Game Disk #15 (by Jim Davis) PBC096 - Game Disk #16 (by Jim Davis) Edited June 7, 2021 by www.atarimania.com 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 Can you possible scan it at a lower size? Maybe at 100%. This is what it looks like now when I open it up at it's actual size. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted July 4, 2021 Author Share Posted July 4, 2021 Not on Atarimania yet but here's a SUPER special treat scanned by @hunmanik that had gone missing for the past 39 years: Atari Special Additions - Summer + Fall 1982.pdf Thanks again, Michael! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wesmond Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 In case it gets missed - accidentally posted this in an older topic... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted January 26, 2022 Author Share Posted January 26, 2022 Time to revive this thread! Expect lots - and I really mean LOTS - of previously unarchived software from the Houston haul just a year ago plus cracked disks from two other collections. Stay tuned! 6 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clh333 Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 5 minutes ago, www.atarimania.com said: Time to revive this thread! Expect lots - and I really mean LOTS - of previously unarchived software from the Houston haul just a year ago plus cracked disks from two other collections. Stay tuned! Thanks for your efforts on our behalf; I have benefitted greatly from the Atarimania archive. What can I do to help? -CH- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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