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24 December 2002, 19:38 | #82 |
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Hi manicx! Here is the info:
SCANNING: This is the scanning requirements for CAPS. I believe we need this stuff at a higher resolution that HOL (?), so if you can at this resolution, you can contribute to both! Okay, we need Box (front, back and sides), manual, disk (for the label ;-), protection cards and anything else in the box. If you don't know what to do with something then just let us know! The only thing you need to know is they should be scanned at ***300 dpi***. File formats: For high colour/detail scans, please use JPEG at 80-90 % quality. If stuff is low-colour, or just text, then PNG should be used to avoid the artifacting of the JPEG format. Black and white stuff should be scanned in greyscale. We should have a page up before long that explains about printing, and how the above requirements fit into it. |
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One thing about protection codes: Breathless for example has a light red sheet with a bit lighter symbols on it. Hard to scan and just to see if you adjust color balance and contrast.
Similiar for TMNT. It has black paper with black gloss text. I'm just curious what one has to do in this case: manipulate the picture himself or send it to you directly and you manage the rest ? |
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We supply two versions in the release, one original scan, the other, "print" version.
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25 December 2002, 17:21 | #85 |
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Marz, they are preserving ALL Amiga games, as bit rot can occur on any disk, regardless of disk format.
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Just downloaded the 4 files, now what? Can't seem to figure out how to decode them...
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26 December 2002, 18:38 | #87 | |
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(ugh, I admit that was quite an indigestive one, hehe ) Seriously, open a DOS box, cd to the directory where you've downloaded the stuff and type: [EDIT] Thanks to Belgarath for the suggestions to make it easier! Code:
C:\> copy /b virus.zip.* virus.zip Note that the default order is alphabetically, so it WILL combine the file chunks using the correct order! Last edited by andreas; 31 December 2002 at 21:19. |
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28 December 2002, 15:19 | #88 |
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Its possible to wright back this images to a disk ?
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28 December 2002, 15:40 | #89 |
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I think that was one of their main priorities to this whole project, Carlos.
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Sim, esse é um dos factores principais da CAPS, as imagens IPF serão mais tarde possiveis de remasterizar para uma diskette. Neste momento apenas falta criar a dita ferramenta. As IPF já contêm toda a informação para recriar os originais - essa era a parte mais dificil ! Talvez no primeiro semestre \ trimestre do próximo ano. Existem muitas releases por fazer e como será facil de adivinhar consomem bastante tempo ... há ainda algum trabalho em coisas que o pessoal de fora não pode saber e que também consomem o seu tempo à CAPS. Com a aplicação de remasterização, bastará uma IPF, uma diskette, e eis o milagre. É algo que ainda à meses era considerado impossivel, e a preservação de originais protegidos completemente condenada a ser perdida no tempo. Tentar alguma info suplementar em www.caps-project.org |
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Heh, guess it's easier and cleverer to communicate to him through his native tongue...
I notice that it's frequently this guy called "Big G" who ups the CAPS releases to a.b.e.amiga. Does he/she happen to be a member of the team by any chance? |
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Two more questions:
1) Don't CAPS archives usually offer JPGs of all sides of a game box? Why does BTTF II only feature the top and left sides of the box? Are the bottom and right ones 100% identical? 2) Are you concentrating solely on single-disk games first or will the next release happen to be a 2-disk game? |
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29 December 2002, 09:17 | #98 | |
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Obrigado pelos esclarecimentos. Embora já tivesse contactado os membros da CAPS, era para saber mais para quando era possivel. Ainda bem que não sou o único Lusitano por estas paragens, e ainda por cima do Norte. Thanx for the info my friend Amigaboy Says: oi! ENGLISH Amiga Board people! If you need to communicate in any other language, the PM system is just what you need RCK Says: +1 warning points on their two accounts. :P Last edited by Carlos Ace; 29 December 2002 at 09:27. |
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@Toni & Caps-Team: what about one kind of ipz format (ipf zipped) supported by winuae + CAPSimg.dll ?
It's a pain to keep these 10Mb files for each game |
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As for the Ipf itself, well, anyone can grab the Ipf out of the Zip and just use it, they're usually pretty small even when compared to Adz, Zipped Adf, et cetera. So one doesn't really have to keep the 10 meg thing. They can rip the Ipf out and just use that. I'll point out thought that the real enterest is keeping them, let's say, when numbers get to that, all in a CD-Rom. Let's say you had 100 games you contributed to CAPS and got back 100 CAPS releases back, you can keep them on CD-Rom, by volumes, and from there you get the games the 700 megs allow per CD, plus all the great stuff they came with. Which will certainly look better and cooler when there's something equivalent to the MAME32 and frontends. For the bandwidth impaired, hard disk needin' pals, they can just keep their Ipf's. |
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