Hey,
I've been busy the past week helping with the imaging of the Bamiga Sector One Collection from physical disks to ADF.
Doing that I had to dig around to find the correct TOSEC tools and .dat files to check if the disks where already known or not.
Installing all this is fine if you really are into collecting, but I missed a quick and easy way to quickly check a few disks.
So I made one - all in the bowser, no installing needed:
http://www.amigaclub.be/tosec/
I have a question though: Currently only the md5 hash of the disk is checked.
In the BS1 collection, this results in HEAPS of disks not already in TOSEC, while in most cases it's just a slight variation of a disk that is already present.
Is there a way to quickly identify these "alt" versions?
Maybe by comparing file hashes or track/sector hashes?
Are there any existing databases for this or should I just create one myself?
Ideally I would like the tool to return stuff like "This disk matches xxxx.yyyy.adf for 95% so it's probably this disk" instead of only the black&white match/no match.
That way you can actually see if you have found something rare or not.