Massive disk archiving project - Looking for advice

[Franko]

Wow guys !!!

Only 2.8Gb of stuff in there, sorry....

I hope that there was some good things in the remaining stuff...

Hope I didn't cause too much hassle for you having to sort through it all

Cheers

Franko

[TCD]

Originally Posted by Franko

Only 2.8Gb of stuff in there, sorry....

Mate, 2.82 GB of new stuff is like easter, christmas and birthday on the same day Was expecting something like 100 disks to be not TOSEC tbh Let's see what goodies are in the lot

[Franko]

Glad to know I've made someone happy

[mai]

....to be honestly, most of the remaining ADFs are either PD games or any variation of existing sets (alternative [a]), but of course i have not checked every single ADF until now, i hope there are some rare versions hidden.
Anyway thanks for sharing your collection.

[andreas]

@Franko:
Real nice stuff!

Originally Posted by logix

@Skope

I strongly disagree.
DMS is an outdated format, and can produce more errors. (the infamous errdms readerror)
This was fine back in the BBS-Days for archiving

Fine?
It was the worst thing that could happen!
I know it even in some detail:
Normally, they used HEAVY1 algorithm, also because some demos broke if you packed them with HEAVY2. BUT: some BBSes used auto-recompressing techniques which turned HEAVY1 into HEAVY2, breaking the images in the process!!
That's just why zeg and others have to dig into their private archives to find 100% working copies, because the BBS-drawn ones often turn out to be knackered.

Oh yes, DMS has really wreaked lots of havoc.

[cosmicfrog]

well done Franko extra ribbits for getting there in the end

[Franko]

Cheers CosmicFrog

Theirs an old Scottish saying that goes a bit like your signature...

'If at first you don't succeed, put in ra boot and then ra heid'

[andy]

Originally Posted by Franko

Wow guys !!!

Only 2.8Gb of stuff in there, sorry....

Even before considering the obvious efforts you went to, I can't believe you said that! Seriously, two point eight gigabytes of data! Of Amiga data, at that! That is a lot of old code and you'll have made plenty of people happy with this chance to rummage through all of those files. Good for you on sticking with it and though I haven't yet ventured towards the FTP at all, thank you for being involved and making this happen.

You've done a good thing.

P.S. It's a bit late and may not matter anyway, but you might want to edit out the log-in details from your earlier post.

[Exit]

so where is this collection? i cant find it neither in the zone or on eab file server

[TCD]

Where is belongs 'Game/Disk/Amiga_Games_Disk_Library_Vol1' on the file server.

[Exit]

Originally Posted by TheCyberDruid

Where is belongs 'Game/Disk/Amiga_Games_Disk_Library_Vol1' on the file server.

ahh thnx a lot mate

[TCD]

No problem

[mai]

Checked against all Amiga dats now.
Remaining nonTOSEC size is ~1,6GB.
I have cleaned Franko`s folder on Fileserver.

@thgill: Any progress with dumping your disks?

[Franko]

Originally Posted by mai

Checked against all Amiga dats now.
Remaining nonTOSEC size is ~1,6GB.
I have cleaned Franko`s folder on Fileserver.

Does that mean the stuff I sent was no good ?

[TCD]

Originally Posted by Franko

Does that mean the stuff I sent was no good ?

Nope, just means that there are not only games on that DVD 1.6 GB is the 'final' result after comparing them with every TOSEC DAT file (demo, educational, application etc.). Still quite a lot left

[mai]

Originally Posted by Franko

Does that mean the stuff I sent was no good ?

There are some rare disks, but you have to search a lot.
Just found rare "CLS" crack of "Cloud Kingdoms".