Magazine coverdisks?

[barkingboy]

I have quite a few coverdisks. Mostly AF, AC and AUI. Not sure what full games I have, but I'm fairly sure I have Trolls.

[Calgor]

Are the SPS team accepting coverdisks? I take it they are, but there is no info on the SPS website I could find. If so, do I just use the SPS dumping tool and email them off?

I am ready to dump my meager collection, tho I think it may be rather common. I don't mind doing unnecessary dumps and SPS can discard them if they like.

Also, there is no mention of CDs. Any specific program we should use, e.g. similar to EAC for audio?

And do I need a non-Amiga Technologies floppy drive (no mention on the SPS website I could find apart from real amiga HD drives needed for HD floppies)

[IFW]

Please contact us at:
http://softpres.org/contact

We'll try and help you through the process.

[Calgor]

Today I got the following response from SPS:

"thanks for contacting SPS

we'd be interesting in disk based commercial games only, they can be
from many systems as well as Amiga, such as atari ST, PC DOS etc.

in order to see what we need, please refer to the games list at
http://www.softpres.org/games

if you have any titles which are *not* on there, then please list
them."

So this means, they are not interested in anything other than commercial games? This is contrary to what IFW wrote above. No mention of alternate versions of the same game to my question either. I will back up my other stuff to ADF format anyhow.

[IFW]

I am pretty sure we are interested, however focus is indeed on games whenever possible.

[Interceptor]

Originally Posted by Calgor

Today I got the following response from SPS:

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So this means, they are not interested in anything other than commercial games? This is contrary to what IFW wrote above. No mention of alternate versions of the same game to my question either. I will back up my other stuff to ADF format anyhow.

IFW had requested you contact SPS regarding the dump process, however your message you posted to SPS didnt mention this thread, or any help with a dumping process, nor was there any way to identify the message to you. it simply asked what kinds of material SPS is looking for.

SPS gets a lot of mail from (mostly well-willed) people who dont read the website at all and simply want to offload stuff or dump disks to get copies of their games. and quite frankly everyones time is very limited.

this thing about coverdisks they have only been mentioned here, and no-one has yet to dump any to my knowledge. this little movement here to get it done is about the only one.

as IFW requested, if you would like assistence with the dumping process and would like to dump your coverdisks, then please do contact again. at least now we know who you are.

[killergorilla]

I dumped a few coverdisks IIRC, a second samurai one, and an alien breed 2 one as well. N o idea what happened to them though, it was ages ago

[Calgor]

@Interceptor

Sorry, I know you guys are very busy, I just needed clarity on what could be accepted - which I now have. I will correspond via the SPS forms with my list in all areas and you can select if anything of interest from my meagre collection. Hopefully there will be something there worth the time. Thanks!

[IFW]

Thanks Calgor!