"Disk not validated"

I'm playing an emulated version of 'Wings' on winuae.

Playing for a few hours, everything seems fine except I can't save on exit because of some disk error on reel 2. No probs, just make a savestate and play from there. That goes well for a while till I finish a particular mission, then it crashes and says it's "unable to load disk validator". The weird thing is if I fail the mission it doesn't have this error and I can keep on playing...

It says I need to check write protection and try again, but I have write protection turned off and numerous attempts at loading reel 2 fail.

It's done a similar thing with Nobunaga's Ambition, but so far loading from savestates work fine and thus there isn't a problem there.

Any ideas on how to fix?

Thanks.

[thomas]

Boot from a Workbench ADF in DF0 and then insert the unvalidated ADF into DF1. Wait until validation has finished, then run the game again.

Or just copy disk-validator from the Workbench ADF to the game's ADF.

If the games runs on Kick 2.0+, you should prefer this as it has disk-validator in ROM.

[Marcuz]

other solution may be use the utility Fixdisk available on Aminet; it works very well to validate disks.

[formater]

Verify yours disks with an antivirus, some versions of Wings, have SADDAM VIRUS in it. This virus delete the original disk-validator and save himself with the name of disk-validator.
Nobunaga Ambition have the same problem disks infected with saddam virus.

Ok... could someone please talk me through a couple of those steps?
Sorry, but I'm pretty new to winuae, and have a basic grasp of emulation at best.

[Bamiga2002]

One good program that i used back in the day was Nuke! That removed Saddam-viruses for good . It can be found on LSD Legal Tools Disk 07, search the net .

I can tell ya, the Saddam virus had infected over half of my floppy disks back then. It was a bugger, until i gave them the Nuke-treatment.

I scanned the entire winuae folder with AVG and nothing came up. I'm trying to work out how to run FixDisk but again my lack of knowledge is letting me down.

Please help!

[Marcuz]

Fixdisk is very simple to use: point it to the disk drive where the disk you want to validate is inserted, make it run a scan for error and at the end it will make you notice if the disk is not validated and it will ask if you want to fix that.

or else, in the menu, there's the "validate disk" option

[TCD]

Originally Posted by Jaekus

I scanned the entire winuae folder with AVG and nothing came up. I'm trying to work out how to run FixDisk but again my lack of knowledge is letting me down.

Please help!

Hi Jaekus,

a Windows virus scanner wont find any Amiga virus. To use Fixdisk you would need to setup a workbench enviroment where you can install it. You should have a look at the Green Amiga Alien Guide : http://guide.abime.net/
There you'll get the info on how to set up a working, installed workbench. Oh and when you have that you could also use WHDLoad and get Wings from WHDownload.com so you don't have to fix disks anymore

[Marcuz]

sometime i forget that not everybody is used to the amiga, thanks TCD for the better instructions

[prowler]

Originally Posted by TheCyberDruid

a Windows virus scanner wont find any Amiga virus.

Hi TCD,

This DOS/Windows virus scanner will:
http://amigamuseum.emu-france.com/Fi...amivir_1.0.zip

AmiVir1.0 Virus scanner for .ADF files

Supported viruses are:

- Bytebandit I Virus
- Bytewarrior (DASA)
- Blizzard Protector 1.0
- S.C.A. Virus
- JITR Virus
- Disk-Doktors Virus
- Pentagon Circle
- Revenge Virus
- Synister Syndicate Virus
- VKILL Virus
- North Star Virus
- ASS Virus
- Gadaffi Virus
- Lamer Exterminator I
- Lamer Exterminator II
- Lamer Exterminator III
- HCS Virus
- Ultrafox Virus
- AEK Virus
- Timebomb Virus

...not Saddam, though, unfortunately.

[Edit] Just found these:

ADFScan 1.8e (660kB) ADF virus scanner for Windows:
http://www.amigabase.de/ADFScan1.8e_full.zip

ADFScan 1.9beta1 (661kB) ADF virus scanner for Windows:
http://www.amigabase.de/adfscan19b1.zip

See these threads for more details:
http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=31422
http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=13061

[TCD]

Originally Posted by prowler

Hi TCD,

This DOS/Windows virus scanner will:
http://amigamuseum.emu-france.com/Fi...amivir_1.0.zip

AmiVir1.0 Virus scanner for .ADF files

Okay, you got me But AVG can't I should have said a 'normal' Windows Anti-Virus tool won't find Amiga Viruses

[cosmiq]

That $#&*#$ SADDAM virus also infected most of my disks
Nowadays I just copy a fresh version from ADF to disk if it won't validate...
too much work for me to clean everything up

[hit]

while looking for a newer version of amivir, i found adfscan (1.8 and 1.9beta): http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?p=198007

Edit: upps, prowler already listed them. sorry

[prowler]

Originally Posted by hit

while looking for a newer version of amivir, i found adfscan (1.8 and 1.9beta): http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?p=198007

Edit: upps, prowler already listed them. sorry

Hi hit,

Don't worry about it, mate. That's exactly how I found them. It's good to know we were both thinking the same way.

BTW, the earlier version 1.7e (659kB) is still available here:
http://amigan.netfast.org/adfscan.zip

Get all the best Amiga antivirus programs from here:
http://www.vht-dk.dk/vhtdk/amiga/download.htm

[prowler]

Originally Posted by Bamiga2002

One good program that i used back in the day was Nuke! That removed Saddam-viruses for good . It can be found on LSD Legal Tools Disk 07, search the net .

Hey Bamiga,

It's easy to get an index of all 149 LSD Legal Tools disks, but nowhere can they be downloaded.

This page:
http://recordedamigagames.ath.cx/modules/content/?id=38
has most of them listed, and the entry for Disk 07 appears thus:
LSD Legal Tools Disk 007 (1992)(LSD).zip (580.24KB)
...but all the links are broken.

If you have this disk, could you please upload it to the Zone?

[Edit] Scrub that. The LSD Legal Tools Disks can be downloaded here:
http://ftp.back2roots.org/back2roots...sd-legaltools/

Originally Posted by TheCyberDruid

Hi Jaekus,

a Windows virus scanner wont find any Amiga virus. To use Fixdisk you would need to setup a workbench enviroment where you can install it. You should have a look at the Green Amiga Alien Guide : http://guide.abime.net/
There you'll get the info on how to set up a working, installed workbench. Oh and when you have that you could also use WHDLoad and get Wings from WHDownload.com so you don't have to fix disks anymore

Thanks for that.

I've spent a few hours working on getting it going and after a few hitches I got through to installing magic workbench, when after installing and changing the settings as recommended, I have a red screen come up with "Software Failure" and I can't get past it to the workbench to fix the problem. What can I do? Or do I have to go from the start and do it again?