Gurus Dream - Uploaded a old Swedish BBS backup

[chip]

In the zone again

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Originally Posted by chip

In the zone again

thanks

[emufan]

Originally Posted by happymondays

... Unfortunately I cannot create an ISO file from the CDs as they are hardly readable, although I will try and figure it out.

there are tools which deals with bad cd-rom images.
one I cannot remember, which I was using in the past. :/
there was some advice on "preparing" the surface of the physical cd-rom,
but again, I cannot find that info here on eab, atm :/

[Wiking67]

Badcd /dvd recovery? Bad cd reader. Isopuzzle

[emufan]

Originally Posted by Wiking67

Badcd /dvd recovery? Bad cd reader. Isopuzzle

maybe it was BlindRead - was on winxp, IIRC

#1) it was IsoPuzzle, you are right.
use the aspi.dll in the link on that page, so it does work on win7 here.

[happymondays]

OK, thanks, guys. I am going to check these, but first I will have to find the CDs. This will most probably happen sometime next week, because this week's crowded for me. Until then I have the fileslists for the CDs somewhere here on my notebook, I might zone them sometime tonight.

[happymondays]

Zoned, it is in AmigaGuide format. I guess I should have almost all (or maybe all) the CDs (27, I don't know if there is more in this series or not, that is surely the last one I had back then) somewhere around here, except for the music and ones also listed. When I last wanted to make an image of the CDs a couple of years ago, it was virtually impossible (I tried some bad CD reader software then, but not the ones you recommended), although I managed to copy almost all the files form the ones I tried, so if there is something you are particularly interested in, it might be easier to get a certain file or batch of files than a complete image.

[emufan]

I cannot guaranty IsoPuzzle will work. It did once for me, but may fail with other CDs.
Since you could rescue some files from the bad image, there might be
a tiny chance, IsoPuzzle will get the remaining bits. maybe
btw. put the winaspi32.dll in the same folder together with IsoPuzzle.exe.

it was said , one may try to polish the cdrom surface with toothpaste,
or a special cdrom cleaner set, to get some more bits out of it,
but again, I cannot say for sure.

thanks for the list.

[Wiking67]

Can someone zone the list ? there is ol
aso dead disk doctor

[chip]

There's no list in the zone

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can someone please split the archive by year ? the resume download don't work (lost 2 gb of download !)

[chip]

Try with a ftp client program like Filezilla
It should be more efficient with big archives than download done via browser

[happymondays]

I uploaded that list again, I do not know how it got removed, might have been me, accidentally clicking on remove or whatever.

[chip]

Good stuff

Do you think are able to create the CD ISOs then ?

[happymondays]

I don't know, but I most probably will only be able to have a look at it next week.

[chip]

Just spotted that HOL2001 has uploaded on the ftp this BBS backup again

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He should have checked the BBS directory before

[emufan]

I have found some lightwave stuff, which I cannot find complete elsewhere.
all in 94-97.txt listed:

INTER1-1.DMS 
INTER1-2.DMS 
INTER1-3.DMS 
INTER1-4.DMS 
INTER1-5.DMS 

INTCON-1.DMS 
INTCON-2.DMS 
INTCON-3.DMS 
INTCON-4.DMS 

INTER2-1.DMS 
INTER2-2.DMS 
INTER2-3.DMS 
INTER2-4.DMS -> maybe missing

INTER3-1.DMS 
INTER3-2.DMS 
INTER3-3.DMS 
INTER3-4.DMS

can anyone zone them?

[chip]

INTER2-4.DMS is not present in the BBS archive

The rest yes and it's zoned now

[redblade]

Originally Posted by dlfrsilver

I will try to upload the whole Fortress BBS, which is bigger even than the Northern Palace.

the Fortress BBS spans from 1994 to 1998, and is 14,8 Gb crunched and 23654 files.

But i need to do it from a home with a strong connection. Not the shit i have at home.

Northern Palace??. Was that Zinkos BBs in Denmark??