BS1 Collection - awesome looking haul of disks

[chip]

I taken a look to those collections of archive.org

But i found just one for Amiga, irrelevant .... am i missing something ?

[Steffest]

Originally Posted by mark_k

In part 50 there is "Amiga bestand 16-06-94.adf"
That contains PenPal and several databases with lists of disks, totalling maybe ~5000? Is that the BS1 set or some other person/group's collection?

I think it's a list from another person.
But an important one.
There are lots of disks with those numbers written on it that do match that list.
But on the other hand, there are at least more then twice as much disks and the other way around: we have boxes with e.g. disk A630 to A710 and then A728 to A756, while numbers A711 to A727 are not there.

The intro text of that disk says "Twins database", maybe that was the other swapper.

[Crown]

I believe the lists are from Kees of TGC and I think he's from the netherlands.

[SuperPlay]

Amazed at how quickly these images are being archived, great work folks :-)

[emufan]

Originally Posted by hiho

https://archive.org/details/diskdrives

There are some other really interesting collections listed there.

could not find anything new. there are some more amiga related links:
https://archive.org/details/software...miga_demopacks
https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_amiga
perhaps some more.

but nothing special so far.


#1) BS1 #50 comes with full version (set) of Opticks (Opticks d1.adf / Opticks d2.adf )
some old 3D raytracing package.

ah, yes, and Lightbox - filename misspelled as Lightboy
with full disk set - some kind of sketching/painting/2D animation thing

[Genlock]

Has someone checked BS1part53 yet, ?
What looked like a possible decent size demo created with VideoTracker threw up an error when i was scanning the disk with Virus Z III
Maybe Dlfrsilver or anyone free could check my error ?

On BS1part53 Video Tracker extended.adf disk crashes out when scanned with virusZ_111
The files that trigger this seem to be /Brush/ID&T_16.bru and Skull_L6.bru

The Error is #8000000A (suspend or reboot requester)

thanks

[hiho]

Originally Posted by chip

I taken a look to those collections of archive.org

But i found just one for Amiga, irrelevant .... am i missing something ?

Not interesting in an Amiga way, just interesting in a preservation way.

[mai]

Originally Posted by Genlock

Has someone checked BS1part53 yet, ?
What looked like a possible decent size demo created with VideoTracker threw up an error when i was scanning the disk with Virus Z III
Maybe Dlfrsilver or anyone free could check my error ?

On BS1part53 Video Tracker extended.adf disk crashes out when scanned with virusZ_111
The files that trigger this seem to be /Brush/ID&T_16.bru and Skull_L6.bru

Nothing wrong there, just plain ilbm picture files!

[PortuguesePilot]

For all those involved in this: Thank you for doing this for us, guys! It's highly appreciated.

[emufan]

BS1 #01 holds some disks with alpha-numeric title, not all accessable, for example:

B1344.adf:
00000000  61 70 32 20 61 70 32 20  61 70 32 20 61 70 32 20  |ap2 ap2 ap2 ap2 |
...
00000400  61 70 32 01 77 44 3e 01  51 00 30 17 17 45 17 47  |ap2.wD>.Q.0..E.G|

B1354.adf:
00000000  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
*
00000400  50 49 52 31 17 40 f3 df  df c2 07 44 03 e9 01 63  |PIR1.@.....D...c|
00000410  12 27 03 9c bb dd 80 03  44 08 44 c3 08 71 d3 1c  |.'......D.D..q..|

B1359.adf:
00000000  41 54 4e 21 00 02 19 80  00 01 49 ce 66 fc 04 f1  |ATN!......I.f...|
00000010  11 1c c0 9e 1d cb b3 f1  13 c8 df fd f8 04 5b fc  |..............[.|
00000020  c0 9f e0 04 03 71 88 a9  8d 20 63 fa 7f f0 76 75  |.....q... c...vu|

any idea what it is?

[DamienD]

Not much to go on really

[StingRay]

Originally Posted by emufan

BS1 #01 holds some disks with alpha-numeric title, not all accessable, for example:

B1344.adf:
00000000  61 70 32 20 61 70 32 20  61 70 32 20 61 70 32 20  |ap2 ap2 ap2 ap2 |
...
00000400  61 70 32 01 77 44 3e 01  51 00 30 17 17 45 17 47  |ap2.wD>.Q.0..E.G|

B1354.adf:
00000000  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
*
00000400  50 49 52 31 17 40 f3 df  df c2 07 44 03 e9 01 63  |PIR1.@.....D...c|
00000410  12 27 03 9c bb dd 80 03  44 08 44 c3 08 71 d3 1c  |.'......D.D..q..|

B1359.adf:
00000000  41 54 4e 21 00 02 19 80  00 01 49 ce 66 fc 04 f1  |ATN!......I.f...|
00000010  11 1c c0 9e 1d cb b3 f1  13 c8 df fd f8 04 5b fc  |..............[.|
00000020  c0 9f e0 04 03 71 88 a9  8d 20 63 fa 7f f0 76 75  |.....q... c...vu|

any idea what it is?

Probably Abandoned Places 2, Piracy on the High Seas and a Team 17 game.

[Steffest]

Originally Posted by StingRay

Probably Abandoned Places 2, Piracy on the High Seas.

Yes,
B1359.adf should be Body Blows disk 4
the A, B and C numbers match a list on 1 of the pen-pal disks (Can't remember which one, sorry)

[emufan]

ok, thanks. so nothing to decrypt or things like that

According to "Amiga bestand 16-06-94.adf" of part #50, List B1000+:

Abandoned Places   - B 1343
Abandoned Places   - B 1344
Abandoned Places   - B 1345
Abandoned Places   - B 1346
Abandoned Places   - B 1347

KGB Final Version  - B 1348
KGB Final Version  - B 1349
KGB Final Version  - B 1350
KGB Final Version  - B 1351
KGB Final Version  - B 1352

P/on The High Seas - B 1353
P/on The High Seas - B 1354
P/on The High Seas - B 1355

Body Blow          - B 1356
Body Blow          - B 1357
Body Blow          - B 1358
Body Blow          - B 1359

When you sort the disk images by date you get:

AbandonedPlacesII
B1344.adf
B1345.adf
B1346.adf
B1347.adf

KGB1.adf
KGB2.adf
KGB3.adf
KGB4.adf
KGB5.adf

PiracyOnTheHighSeas.adf
B1354.adf
B1355.adf

B1356.adf -> Body Blow Disk #1
B1357.adf
B1350.adf -> should be B1358.adf
B1359.adf

[emufan]

thanks for the lists. I was aware of the index disk,
but I was too lazy to have a look on my own

[lesta_smsc]

Logged on after a very long time and what a beauty of a find this is!

Just out of curiosity, as it is being converted to ADF... would it not be better to Kryoflux all the disks to preserve their content fully as from my understanding (which is more than likely wrong), the ADFs were limited when disks contained long tracks etc - although, I suppose these were removed in cracks making ADFs acceptable file format. Did I just answer my own question? lol

[emufan]

this caps/sps thing seems dead to me. looks like they finished their deeds,
now only selling their hardware.
no need to support this, IMHO.

most of the apps came with hardware dongles or serial numbers. cannot recall any
applications with disk based protection.
so I think the way it gets preserved is the right way.

[SimonV]

I am not going to upload the torrents here anymore but just to say we are at 55 for the moment !

[SimonV]

Originally Posted by emufan

this caps/sps thing seems dead to me. looks like they finished their deeds,
now only selling their hardware.
no need to support this, IMHO.

most of the apps came with hardware dongles or serial numbers. cannot recall any
applications with disk based protection.
so I think the way it gets preserved is the right way.

I have mixed feelings about that. I had / have a requested game on their website in my collection, Goblins 3 that I of course wanted to contribute. After a loooooooooooooooong time I got a message " yes we want it but we only accept images made with the kryoflux hardware " .... Sorry I am not buying a piece of hardware for roughly 100€ to get them that one image they want.

In the meantime I obviously have more use for a kryoflux but still ... that's a 100€ that at some point will end up in a drawer doing nothing. I need to think about it some more... buy one, use one from someone else ... dilemmas.