CAPS Update (28 October 2002)

[Fissuras]

Originally posted by fiath
Cool!

That would be very handy if you could. How much were you planning to pay? I hope it is not too much.

I am trying to talk the guy to sell them apart from the Amiga auction here: http://www.mercadolivre.com.br/brasi...Z&it_n=7563105

Price is not high at all as R$ 100 is about US$ 28 for the 9 boxes. I'll be glad if I can help and give back the scene some contribution.

[BippyM]

Originally posted by fiath
Haha.

It is so preservation is complete. I don't think after that, that there will be an ounce more we can do for each game (other than finding all the different versions/languages).

As you probably noticed from that gameinfo.xml I posted in another thread - this will allow fontend writers to (say) create a 3D box - and all the nice stuff that may come with that.

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Can you imagine the fun value of WinUAE if you select the CAPS game, and a 3D representation of the proper box is opened, with a 3D proper disk being put into the drive

[Amiga1992]

Originally posted by bippym
Can you imagine the fun value of WinUAE if you select the CAPS game, and a 3D representation of the proper box is opened, with a 3D proper disk being put into the drive

No, really, I cannot.

[fiath]

@Antiriad

Okay, we have 1000's of scans of the front of boxes, but the only games we *complete* have scans of are Dragon's Breath, OutRun and Turbo Trax. We have a long way to go - we have only been concentrating on the dumps themselves until about a week ago. Scans will be done as the dumps are ready - so it is not as much an issue as you might think.

Yes! It was an Amstrad (CPM 644) monitor! Were you there?

@Fissuras

Nice! Let me know how it goes.

@bippym

I don't think this stuff will ever be a part of WinUAE itself. I would say it does not exactly belong in an emulator anyway. So it would have to be made part of a frontend that launched UAE.

[BippyM]

I was joking,, hence the

[fiath]

Actually what you propose is almost identical with what we want to see too. Just not as part of UAE.

[BippyM]

Seeing the box etc.. represented as 3D would be cool, but I was joking when it came to UAE!

[fiath]

Ah. Doh.

[Antiriad]

Haha! I *knew* it was an Amstrad monitor!!!
Fraid i wasnt there, wish i had been mind.

Anyhoo, only rare game i think i have is "Side Arms" by Go! Software from 1988.

Im gonna try to do a list of my originals for Cody, but i gotta upend my bedroom to get access to some of my boxed games.

[fiath]

How did you know? Have you seen some photos of the show or something? I took some, but they all came out black.

Never heard of that game, and we don't have it already I am fairly positive... Dumping it would be great!

Out of your other stuff : you never know what we have not come across yet! If you could send me a list, it would be much appriciated.

[Amiga1992]

Originally posted by fiath
Never heard of that game, and we don't have it already I am fairly positive... Dumping it would be great!

Never heard of SideArms? Arcade conversion of a Capcom arcade game. Never tried the Amiga version but the arcade one was a very cool shmuppo.

I have a bunch of boxed originals, you think I could contribute? Here's a list:

• Disposable Hero
• Fantastic Worlds (compilation)
• Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (french box and manuals but english software)
• Lemmings[size=1](includes a white demo disk, is this what you guys are looking for?)p/size[
• Micro Machines
• Monkey Island
• Mr. Nutz
• Puggsy
• R-Type II
• Shadow of the Beast II ("cassete" box A500+ bundle version)
• Soccer Kid
• Wing Commander (german)
• Zool 2

[manicx]

Nice to see that people are willing to contribute! I send my original Kick Off 2 v1.4e. Any chance to this this without the protection guys? I 've tried with a Cyclone copier but had no luck !

[fiath]

Originally posted by Akira
Never heard of SideArms? Arcade conversion of a Capcom arcade game. Never tried the Amiga version but the arcade one was a very cool shmuppo.

No. Ah righty. I'll have to dig MAME out.

I have a bunch of boxed originals, you think I could contribute?

I certainly do! Some cool games in there. Some we have, but it may be that you have a different version than us - and we want to find as many as we can.

Scans would be lovely too of course.

About Lemmings. I don't know. Is the gameplay similar to what is described on the wanted page? Please note - we are looking for a "demo" promo. Not the full game promo.

As always please mail contributions@caps-project.org. Come on guys! I have not recieved any mail yet.

[fiath]

Originally posted by manicx
Nice to see that people are willing to contribute! I send my original Kick Off 2 v1.4e. Any chance to this this without the protection guys? I 've tried with a Cyclone copier but had no luck !

Yes, thanks again for your dump contributions!

We can't supply you with an image of the game without protection, because don't strip protection out of games! But then you knew that.

However, I have already made sure that you guys will get a fully protected image very soon after releases start to appear. It is a very high priority for us. Hopefully we can get the up-and-coming mastering tools to write it on a normal Amiga too.

Yeah, shame about Cyclone. However, as you will see from another thread on the board you have a much older version than the latest - we just need to find you a copy!

See here: http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?...hlight=Cyclone

Thanks again to Bernd for the answer!

Whether it will work on not is anybodys guess - but worth a try. Mind you, it is *possibly* only *weeks* left until the first C.A.P.S. release. We will try to get some out for Christmas - hopefully. Yours will follow as soon as we are able to get it out after that.

[Antiriad]

Ok folks, heres me list of originals.

Agony
Alien Breed Special Edition 1992 (Unboxed, No Manual)
Alien Breed Tower Assault AGA
Apidya (Team 17 Re-release, Unboxed - my fault, Manual)
Archer Macleans Pool*

Banshee AGA
Barbarian (Tenstar 3 Pack Cassette Case)
Batman (Tatty C64 Box, Hit Squad Budget Disk, Tatty Original Manual)
Batman Returns*
BattleMaster
Beetle (Shareware, Unboxed, No Manual)
Birds of Prey*

Cadaver
Cannon Fodder (Unboxed, no manual)*
Cannon Fodder 2*
Captive
Captive 2 - Liberation AGA
Carthage
Castle Master (Hit Squad Budget)
Chaos Engine ECS
Chuck Rock 2
Civilization (Acid re-release)
Conquest of Camelot*

Dark Side
Days Of Thunder (Cassette Case)
Deluxe Paint 2 (Manual Only)
Dennis ECS
Diggers and Oscar CD32
Disposable Hero
Driving Force (Powerplay Cassette Case)
Dune II (Hit Squad Budget)
Dungeon Master 2: The Legend of Skullkeep*

Eliminator (Beau Jolly Budget, Unboxed, No Manual)
Elite
E-Motion (Powerplay Cassette Case)
Eye of the Beholder*

F1GP
Federation of Free Traders (Includes soundtrack tape!)*
Feud
FIFA Soccer (Acid Re-release)*
Fire and Ice
Frontier Elite 2 (Two copies in different sized boxes)*
Future Wars*

Gods
Golden Axe
Grand Monster Slam (Powerplay Cassette Case)
Goldrunner*

Hired Guns

Impossible Mission 2025 ECS
Indiana Jones & The Fate of Atlantis (Original and Kixx Budget)
It Came From The Desert*

Jahangir Khan Squash (Unboxed, no manual)*
James Pond (GBH Budget)
James Pond 2 Robocod*
James Pond 3 AGA
Joe Blade 2 (Cassette Case)

K.G.B.

Legend*
Legends Of Valour*
Lemmings
Lemmings 2 (Unboxed)
Light Force 4 Compilation (No manual, only Voyager and R-Type, IK+ and Bio Challenge missing)*
Lombard RAC Rally

Manchester United Europe (Unboxed, no manual)*
Maniac Mansion*
Microcosm CD32
Micromachines*
Midwinter
Monster Pack Vol 2: Shadow Of The Beast 2, The Killing Game Show, Awesome
Mortal Kombat II*
Myth (Unboxed, Manual, Poster)

Nigel Mansell Grand Prix*

Oh No More Lemmings (Unboxed)
Operation Thunderbolt*

Pacmania*
Pinball Dreams (Amiga Zool Pack)
Pipe Mania (Powerplay Cassette Case)
Populous & Promised Lands (Hit Squad Budget)* - disks have been replaced with hacks!!!
PowerMonger*
Pucman (No disk)*
Puggsy

Roadkill AGA*
Rock 'n Roll (Powerplay Cassette Case)
R-Type (Hit Squad Budget, Unboxed - my fault, Manual)
RVF Honda (Powerplay Cassette Case)

Shadow Fighter AGA*
Shadow Of The Beast II (Cassette Case)
Shadow Warriors
Side Arms
Sim City 2000 (unboxed, floppy manual)
Skidmarks
Soccer Kid*
Speedball 2 (Tatty Box)
Star Lord
Star Trek 25th Anniversary (Unboxed, no manual)
Super Methane Brothers
Super Stardust AGA
Superfrog
SwitchBlade
Sword Of Sodan
SWOS (Two identical copies)*

Team Yankee*
Terrorpods
The Settlers
Theme Park AGA (Two identical copies)
Thunderhawk
Tower of Babel (Powerplay Cassette Case)

Unreal
Uridium 2

Voyager (Cassette Case)

War In The Gulf*
Wing Commander
World Championship Boxing Manager (Unboxed, no manual)*
Worms*

Xenon (Tronix Budget)
Xenon 2
X-Out (Unboxed - my fault, Partial Manual)
XP8 ECS
XR35 (Cassette Case)*

Zool
Zool 2
Zynaps

Oh and the * in the list indicates theyre a pain in the arse to get out! Something i should have removed from the original doc i made

[Antiriad]

Of these the following could have Whdload installs created for them:

Castle Master
Civilization ECS
Conquest of Camelot
Dungeon Master 2: The Legend of Skullkeep
Eliminator (Unofficial one exists mind)
F1GP
Hired Guns
It Came From The Desert
Legends Of Valour
Manchester United Europe (not sure as Codetapper is doing Manchester United might be the same game)
Shadow Fighter AGA - a CD32 version by Bored Seal exists but i have the floppy version
Sim City 2000
Skidmarks
Star Lord
Star Trek 25th Anniversary
Team Yankee
The Settlers
War In The Gulf
Wing Commander
XP8 ECS
XR35

[Antiriad]

You CANNOT believe how pissed i am that my copies of Populous and the promised lands were wiped over by hacks!

Populous was made into a Whd install recently, and i noticed it didnt work with my version. Psygore very kindly said he would receive the images and create one that works with what i thought was the genuine budget re-release.

He then told me that i had the Quartex crack of it!
Meaning the previous owner wiped his ORIGINALS!!!:eek
Nutcase!

[Fissuras]

WOW... nice collection...
As I said, I has talked the guy and he was willing to sell me the games, but someone just bid before he could change the Auction, now I can't buy him the games, unless I buy the Amiga too

[fiath]

Nice!
Please contact us so we can give you the dumping tools!

Originally posted by Antiriad
You CANNOT believe how pissed i am that my copies of Populous and the promised lands were wiped over by hacks!

Unfortuately there is a very good reason for this. Populous (not sure about the promised lands though) contains an invalid MFM stream in the Copylock track. This means that this track is *very* likely to go bad because it is "hard to read".

He then told me that i had the Quartex crack of it!
Meaning the previous owner wiped his ORIGINALS!!!:eek
Nutcase!

With what I said abov, this also means that the game goes bad quite easily. i.e. it stops working. This is probably why your original got copied over with a crack.

Although this is still a silly thing to do (we could have recovered that disk) you should BLAME THE PUBLISHERS for doing something so stupid.

You will be happy to know that when the CAPS image comes out you can fix your disk as new.

[fiath]

Originally posted by Fissuras
WOW... nice collection...
As I said, I has talked the guy and he was willing to sell me the games, but someone just bid before he could change the Auction, now I can't buy him the games, unless I buy the Amiga too

Oh well