17 December 2003, 00:36 | #1 |
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Does anyone know if Quarterback is either backward comatible or how do I find out what version of QB a backup was made with?
I have found a few disks that have been QB Backed up, yet when I try and restore them it doesn't work I tried restoring with the latest version in Tosec btw. |
17 December 2003, 05:47 | #2 |
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Look at the bootblock of the disk. It should say which Quarterback version the disk was made with.
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17 December 2003, 19:09 | #3 |
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I have had a look in the Bootblock, but don't see anything other than QB0x (x being the backup disk number QB01, QB02)
I have attached a pic of the first disk! |
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Seems like I was wrong, I thought the bootblock had the version of QB it was made with. Sorry
Maybe in track 45? woops just noticed, you didn't analyze this with a sectoreditor, you should do it with that instead of plonking an ADF in an hex viewer. |
17 December 2003, 19:30 | #5 |
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What difference does it make how I view it?
/me is curious! |
17 December 2003, 21:52 | #6 |
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for example, I just told you to check track 45. How will you check track45 from there? Well you can, I suppose, if you make the calculation for ho many bytes a track has etc, but this is pure shite
Also, I'm not sure if a pc hexa viewer would output the correct character set. |
06 February 2004, 20:18 | #7 |
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Same problem here.
Checked track 45 - nothing. Disk is in the zone, maybe someone can tell me how to unpack this. I haven't been successful so far, for I don't even know the version this disk was packed with. Seems this is mandatory. |
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Use the following version from tosec
Quarterback v5.0 (1992)(New Horizons)[h] this restored it for me |
07 February 2004, 21:22 | #9 |
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thanks a bunch bip!
After "IRC update" (QB 6.0x instead of 5.0 because of a typo) disk contents showed nicely! So you guys might need to keep a collection of QB versions to unpack that crap! |
07 February 2004, 21:35 | #10 |
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/me is dumb
Copy and paste wrong one!! You're welcome andreas |
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