28 June 2018, 15:00 | #61 |
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I might just point out that the WOS IDSA furore was a complete mistake, as the IDSA's automatic filename trawler flagged up files that contained the names of popular films/games from current (for the time) generations of hardware and WOS did indeed have permission to distribute those games.
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28 June 2018, 17:18 | #62 |
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28 June 2018, 20:08 | #63 |
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29 June 2018, 15:59 | #64 |
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The biggest question for me is where and how those files are stored. Not much of a preservation effort if they're stored on some guy HDD in his basement. Before I make the effort of contributing something to such a project I'd like to make sure my work would be stored safely for others to enjoy, not just a selected few.
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29 June 2018, 16:15 | #65 |
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It's been years since SPS members are inactive, for me EAB's members can now exchange IPF files if they want, I removed the FAQ entries about those old rules.
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29 June 2018, 16:22 | #67 |
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You rock RCK.
No-Intro set incoming on ftp. Last edited by Retroplay; 29 June 2018 at 16:28. |
29 June 2018, 16:29 | #68 | |
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29 June 2018, 16:36 | #69 |
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It's all locked up in Enterprise Storage as Denis says, remember they also deal with Universities, Libraries and other organisations so if they do store any of their dumps it's not really professional to keep them on a local HDD is it
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29 June 2018, 17:01 | #70 | |
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Once however, if you do actually get .IPFs back from them, then you can do whatever you want i.e. share with the community if you so wish |
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29 June 2018, 17:10 | #71 |
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@Turran: can you please update the text on the EAB File Server and remove the part in red below?
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29 June 2018, 17:28 | #73 |
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Denis has nearly 200 of my Spectrum +3 dumps so can I have them in IPF format please
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29 June 2018, 17:59 | #74 |
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I'm glad rules are changed
Thanks Retroplay for the upload |
29 June 2018, 21:12 | #75 |
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Wow! This is excellent news.
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29 June 2018, 22:36 | #76 | |
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The good news : I spent 7 hours to check and process 20 spectrum titles. here are the results : 4 top games : Speedlock AAAA 1986 with disk write enable check (Destructive!) Action Pack : Speedlock AAAA 1986 with disk write enable check (Destructive!) Back To the future III : Speedlock 8k track w/no checksum Barbarian II: Speedlock 8k tracks w/no checksum Batman The Caped Crusader : Speedlock weak sector Charbusters : Speedlock AAAA 1986 with disk write enable check (Destructive!) Dragon Ninja: Speedlock weak sector Game Set And Match : Speedlock AAAA 1986 with disk write enable check (Destructive!) Renegade: Speedlock AAAA 1986 with disk write enable check (Destructive!) The Bard Tale's Tale of the Unknown: Speedlock weak sector After the war: Seen as not duplicated (because not duplicated on a trace mountain machine) APB All Points Bulletin: Discsys disk protection, made by Kevin Parker, aka the Master Hacker. This Protection is seen as not duplicated on most titles. The only one i know of seen as duplicated is Bad land from Domark. bubble bobble and sentinel are seen as modified or not duplicated football Manager II is modified Fiendish freddy, the disk is dirty so no IPF, but good enough to make eDSK. Game Set and Match: Speedlock AAAA 1986 with disk write enable check (Destructive!) Gary Lineker : copied by a spectrum or an amstrad. The game uses the gremlin disk format, which is duplicated, so no go. Live Ammo: track 24.0 is faulty so biscuits. Speedlock AAAA 1986 with disk write enable check (Destructive!) Tomahawk: protected, but is seen as not duplicated. |
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30 June 2018, 00:10 | #77 |
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Wow! Might have to redump a few like Fiendish Freddy!
There is another copy of Live Ammo in those dumps that has a good Track 24.0! Obviously I can't guarantee every dump is genuine when you're buying stuff off ebay, even I wrote over some of my Amiga originals with cracks but thankfully only a handful!! At least I know which ones are genuinely modified. As for the Bubble Bobble and Sentinel, they seem to use the same format and were bought from 2 different people, tracks 6-29 are unformatted on both dumps! Disk Image Manager has APB identified as Players protection with supersized track 39, is this another name for Discsys? |
30 June 2018, 00:26 | #78 | |
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this protection was used on Spectrum disk, but also on Amstrad CPC. This protection also exists in tape format, it's called Cassys (by opposition to Discsys). It's made of 16 sectors, not fully filled, and with specific to counter strike the hacking cartridges. The naming in the SPS tool is Sector16, but the real name is Discsys. This protection has been made by Kevin Parker, an ex-hacker at the time, named 'TMH' or The Master Hacker. He used the protection 1st time on the game Into The Eagle Nest, that he has also coded on Speccy and Amstrad. |
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30 June 2018, 10:49 | #79 |
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so refreshing how a long-standing, obsolete and oppressive rule got removed in a week's time by simple logic !
Good work guys! |
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So Players = Discsys, I have a few with that protection, can't list them now as I'm just off to the Doncaster Dome for the Video Game Market and it's getting warmer and warmer!! |
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