Make coverdisks downloadable somehow?

[Codetapper]

Thanks Aral, that'd be great!

well i made the same comment about coverdisk in at alt thread : http://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p=306129&postcount=12

WoW once agian.. i like the option you have made to browse the cover disk just tested by downloading image 4 on CU Amiga (January 1997 ) worked nicely.

thanks For AMR Project ;-)

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I have the Following in my Disk Box. i up loaded these disk some time back last year disk Image's and Scan.

Cinema4d (2 Disk)
http://amr.abime.net/issue_668_pages

Quarterback & Quarterback Tool (1 Disk)
http://amr.abime.net/issue_653_pages

[MethodGit]

I've noticed that there are some other coverdisks which have scans but aren't available for download. Is it due to having trouble obtaining a 100%/virus-free dump, or something else?

[Galaxy]

Could be that, or perhaps we haven't had time to upload the image yet or the other reason is that it might be protected (or dual/tri-format)

Originally Posted by k2uphill

I have the Following in my Disk Box. i up loaded these disk some time back last year disk Image's and Scan.

Cinema4d (2 Disk)
http://amr.abime.net/issue_668_pages

Quarterback & Quarterback Tool (1 Disk)
http://amr.abime.net/issue_653_pages

I wasn't aware that these had been uploaded - do you mind uploading them again?

[MethodGit]

Originally Posted by Galaxy

Could be that, or perhaps we haven't had time to upload the image yet or the other reason is that it might be protected (or dual/tri-format)

Well regarding the multi-format disks..... have they tried testing out the FDI format? I think that was intended for such disks, although the process in creating such images may be a tad tricky.

And regarding protected, I did notice a few things:

1) Apparently copy-protection was applied to the Sensible disk on AP13. I always wondered why the Wizkid demo on Aminet had such an unbelievably small-sized executable that didn't work anyway, and why only a bad dump of the disk existed in the TOSEC DAT! Still, a 100% dump of this would be tremendous.
2) AF Jan 91 and Jan 92 disks (basically the disk containing a Lemmings demo) are extended ADFs. I didn't know extra measures were built into these disks - I guess that explains why the Lemmings demo on Nth Dimension's AF18a never worked, and also why an image of AF30b never existed for a long time!
3) For the Kid Gloves title on AP2, an SPS image of the original commercial game was included in the download. AP's disk was byte-for-byte the same I guess!

[Galaxy]

Originally Posted by MethodGit

Well regarding the multi-format disks..... have they tried testing out the FDI format? I think that was intended for such disks, although the process in creating such images may be a tad tricky.

And regarding protected, I did notice a few things:

1) Apparently copy-protection was applied to the Sensible disk on AP13. I always wondered why the Wizkid demo on Aminet had such an unbelievably small-sized executable that didn't work anyway, and why only a bad dump of the disk existed in the TOSEC DAT! Still, a 100% dump of this would be tremendous.
2) AF Jan 91 and Jan 92 disks (basically the disk containing a Lemmings demo) are extended ADFs. I didn't know extra measures were built into these disks - I guess that explains why the Lemmings demo on Nth Dimension's AF18a never worked, and also why an image of AF30b never existed for a long time!
3) For the Kid Gloves title on AP2, an SPS image of the original commercial game was included in the download. AP's disk was byte-for-byte the same I guess!

There are quite a lot of copy protected coverdisks (see: Fiath's copy protected coverdisk thread for more detail)

Multi formats should hopefully be dealt with by the SPS team - I submitted quite a few multi formats a while back, esp when they were wanting experience with them as there are some mulit format game re-releases (eg. E-Motion)

When I dumped my disks, if the disk was protected I attempted an extended adf dump (they are named _e.adf so are easy to identify) mainly so I could grab coverdisk screenshots. However, this only works sometimes - often the images are broken, or rawread just resets my A1200. It would be good to get SPS dumps of the disks eventually.

Kid Gloves is certainly the same as the retail release (or so I was told by IFW as this is the image I was sent when I submitted the disk to SPS - same def goes for Ilyad, and maybe some others too)

[redblade]

Ah awesome guys looking great, especially as it has a list of all the progries on the disk ).

10/10.

[Aral]

Originally Posted by Codetapper

Thanks Aral, that'd be great!

Hey Codetapper i haven't forgotten abot you still looking for the disk On Saturday will drag all the coverdisks out and catalog them and scan some lables. So far have found plenty that need to be scanned and a few magazine disks that don't seem to on AMR. Also have found tonight a shitload of those dual format coverdisks. Will scan those also

[Peter]

Hope this is the right place to post - be great if someone could advise...

I have found a cover disk to this magazine... CLICK HERE

It is missing from the download link so I guess it is missing.

What should I do - upload it to the zone here?

[TCD]

Please upload it to the HOL FTP (http://hol.abime.net/hol_faq.php?section=contributions) and I'll move it to the AMR incoming folder

[Peter]

Thanks TCD - all done.

I will try and get a scan of the disk also...

[TCD]

That would be great Moved the ADF and thanks for the upload