Fiath's Copy Protected Coverdisk List

[fiath]

Copy Protected, Multi Platform and Full Game - Coverdisks

"i.e. those coverdisks that could do with CAPS treatment"


TAGS:

SAME: Means it has not been released because we have determined that the coverdisk is the same as the original.
RELEASED: Means the coverdisk has been released by CAPS and is available as an IPF.
DUMPED: Has been dumped with the CAPS tool, and appears to be correct.
NEEDS DUMP: No dump of the complete disk exists.
REDUMP: Needs another dump - to either correct errors found, or confirm that it was part of the original mastering (as suspected in some cases due to cheap duplication), or because the dump we have is modified.
COPY: We only have a dump of a copy (a non commercially mastered version) - we need one from an actual authentic disk.
MODIFIED: The disk has been modified since the original mastering, so we need to find another copy.
UNKNOWN: Either we have not checked it yet, or some of the disk format is not currently known.
MULTI: Multi-format disk (Amiga, ST, PC), but does not imply we have it (I need to check).


Coverdisks:

Form:
Game name (type), Issue, Coverdisk Num, Tags


ACE Magazine
Shadowlands (Ami/ST) + Arcade 4-Pack (PC), ?, 1, MULTI
Apparently many more tri/dual format disks

Amiga Action
James Pond + Horror Zombies, Jan 91 (Issue 16), 2, COPY
Ilyad (full game), 20, 6, RELEASED
Armour Geddon (demo), 20, 7, UNKNOWN
Purple Saturn Day (full game), 21, 8, DUMPED
R-Type II (demo), 22, 10, REDUMP
Thunder Burner (demo), ?, 22, NEEDS DUMP
Liverpool (demo), ?, 34a, ?, NEEDS DUMP

Amiga Computing
SWIV + Cribbage, Nov 1990, CD013, UNKNOWN
Scroller 2 (full app), Sept 1994, ?, DUMPED

Amiga Format
Total Recall + Lemmings + Niall + Eliza, 18, 18a, UNKNOWN
Interphase (full game), 18, no label, ?, NEEDS DUMP
Balance of Power (full game), 23, no label, DUMPED
Archipelagos (full game), 24, no label, SAME
Second Samurai (demo), 51, 51a, DUMPED
Uridium 2 (extra level), 53, 53b, DUMPED
Cannon Soccer (mini game), 54, 54b, DUMPED
UFO (full game), 109, b, NEEDS DUMP
Formula One Grand Prix (full game), 111, a+b, NEEDS DUMP

Amiga Fun
Trex Warrior (full game), Aug 94, ?, NEEDS DUMP
Gainforce, ?, ?, NEEDS DUMP
Amber, ?, ?, RELEASED

Amiga Mania
3D-Motorrad, ?, ?, RELEASED
Crazy Sue II, ?, ?, RELEASED
Movem, ?, ?, RELEASED

Amiga Power
Bombuzal (full game), 1, (1), RELEASED
Kid Gloves (full game), 2, (2), ?, SAME
Sensible Soccer (demo) + Sim Brick and Sensible Startest + Wizkid demo, May 1992, 13b, NEEDS DUMP
Christmas Dizzy (full mini game), 33, 1, NEEDS DUMP
Cannon Fodder Plus, 31, 1, RELEASED
No Second Prize (full game), 65, Sep 96, NEEDS DUMP
Blob (full game), 64, ?, NEEDS DUMP

CU Amiga
Robocop + Lemmings 2 + Eswat, ?, 8, COPY
Human Killing Machine (full game), ?, 11, DUMPED
Mortal Kombat (demo), January 1994, 73, REDUMP

One, The
Atomix (full game), ?, ?, UNKNOWN
Pipe Mania + Gazza's Super Soccer + Team Yankee, ?, ?, MULTI
Trex Warrior (full game), Aug 93, A, ?, NEEDS DUMP
Brat! (demo), ?, ?, MULTI
Cybercon III: A Complete New Mission! (extra levels), ?, ?, MULTI
Paradroid 90 (demo), ?, ?, MULTI
Populous Scenery Disk (game data), ?, ?, MULTI
Puffy's Saga (full game) + Kick Off 2 Goal-den Goal!, ?, ?, DUMPED
Rick Dangerous II (extra Amiga level) + Midwinter II (ST preview), ?, ?, MULTI
Rotoplex (demo), ?, ?, MULTI
E-motion (full game), ?, ?, DUMPED

ST-Amiga Format Complete!
(For a complete software list see Twistin's post)
(we need to add Atari ST support to CAPS dump analyser)
Various, Issue 1 - July 1988, 1, Dual Format (Amiga/ST), REDUMP
Various, Issue 2 - Aug 1988, 2, Dual Format (Amiga/ST), NEEDS DUMP
Various, Issue 3 - Sept 1988, 3, Dual Format (Amiga/ST), MULTI
Various, Issue 4 - Oct 1988, 4, Dual Format (Amiga/ST), REDUMP
Various, Issue 5 - Nov 1988, 5, Dual Format (Amiga/ST), REDUMP
Various, Issue 6 - Dec 1988, 6, Dual Format (Amiga/ST), MULTI
Various, Issue 7 - Jan 1989, 7, Dual Format (Amiga/ST), NEEDS DUMP
Various, Issue 8 - Feb 1989, 8, Dual Format (Amiga/ST), REDUMP
Various, Issue 9 - Mar 1989, 9, Dual Format (Amiga/ST), NEEDS DUMP
Various, Issue 10 - Apr 1989, 10, Dual Format (Amiga/ST), MULTI
Various, Issue 11 - May 1989, 11, Dual Format (Amiga/ST), NEEDS DUMP
Various, Issue 12 - June 1989, 12, Dual Format (Amiga/ST), MULTI
Various, Issue 13 - July 1989, 13, Dual Format (Amiga/ST), REDUMP

Sundancer
Tony & Friends in Kellogg's Land, ?, ?, MODIFIED

Zero
(Comeplete disk contents in another post - only miggy stuff here)
(Probably more?)
F-29 (special mission) + Battle Command, Oct. 1990, -, MULTI
Hardball (full game), Nov 1990, -, MULTI
Rampage (full game) + Simulcra (demo), Dec. 1990, -, MULTI
Viz + Case, Jan 1991, -, MULTI + COPY
Cadaver (extra level) + Chip's Challenge, Feb 1991, -, MULTI
Hunter (demo) + Action Fighter (full game) + Super Huey (full Amiga game), Mar 1991, -, MULTI
Loopz (demo) + Moonshine Racer (demo), Apr 1991, ?, MULTI
Artura (full game) + Team Suzuki (demo), May 91, -, MULTI
Hacker II (full game) + Chuck Rock (extra levels), June 1991, -, MULTI
Steel (full game), Jul 1991, -, MULTI
Lords of Chaos (extra level) + Frenetic (demo), Aug 1991, -, MULTI
Magic Pockets + Magic Garden, Oct 1991, -, MULTI
Cardiaxx + others, Nov 1991, -, MULTI
Populous 2 (demo), Dec 1991, 1 of 2, MULTI + COPY
Another World (demo) + Video Kids (demo), Dec 1991, 2 of 2, MULTI

Unknown Magazines
Car-Vup "Six Exclusive New Levels" (extra levels), ?, UNKNOWN
Foundation's Waste (full game), ?, ?, MULTI
Plotting "Five Exclusive New Levels" (extra levels), ?, ?, MULTI


Additions / Corrections welcome!


Thanks to contributors:
MethodGit
Feltzkrone
Ronald VD
Twistin'Ghost
Alex Holland
EAGER project
Nth Dimension
Bernd Gmeineder
Specfreak
Steve
Galaxy
CAPS
klaw17

[Akira]

Originally posted by fiath
P.S. Can I put an HTML table in here?

Nope, HTML is not allowed. It would be a serious security hole!

and vB Code does not have a table thingie. Sorry!

[Paul]

Originally posted by fiath
P.S. Can I put an HTML table in here?

You could make a Table, screen capture it and save as a gif file.

[andreas]

Originally posted by Akira
Nope, HTML is not allowed. It would be a serious security hole!

That's a bit across the board. It *can* be a security hole, it doesn't *have to*, though. As long as you keep JAVASCRIPT disabled, I don't see any problems with HTML.

[Akira]

Well, that's what RCK always says and since I know jack, I repeated it . But now let's leave the discussion related to fiath's request.

[jmmijo]

Just a random thought here for you fiath, have you thought about putting this data into something like a spreadsheet or a db file

Seems to me that most db apps support the importing of comma delimetted files and could be used to easily find info that is needed. Also has the benefit of being transferred to the zone, if it's not too large for others to add to it or for just information purposes.

[Twistin'Ghost]

Originally posted by fiath
Unknown Magazines
Car-Vup "Six Exclusive New Levels" (extra levels), ?, ?
Foundation's Waste (full game), ?, ?, Dual Format (Amiga/ST)
Kid Gloves (full game), ?, ?, ?
Plotting "Five Exclusive New Levels" (extra levels), ?, ?, ?


Additions / Corrections welcome!

OK, the Kid Gloves was from Amiga Power #2. The others I wish I knew...they sound wonderful (especially the extra levels disks, especially the Car-Vup one!)

Didn't see cracked or capped anywhere...

[fiath]

@all

Okay, I will keep it how it is - and not bother with a table

@Paul

Nice suggestion - but I would never be bothered to update it that way

@jmmijo

Not sure there is much point really, there can't be many out there... However, if the list does get big - I will certainly do that. It is currently pretty much comma delimited anyway - so easy conversion.

@Twistin'

Thanks for the info!

I have not finished the list yet - all have been "CAPP'ed" - apart from a couple in your wanted list and all ST-Amiga Format ones. But I will only mark them as such when I am sure that they are correct integrity wise.

This may not be very easy since we think that MANY (if not all) coverdisks were done in really cheap mastering process - probably with no (or flawed) verify to save time.

If the same errors we are seeing happen on any more dumps we get - we can confirm the dumps "good" to how they came from the duplicator - as we can't get better than that...

I am not currently aware of any cracks - I will rely on you guys for that one if that is okay...


Any more info welcome!

I will trawel the EAB and the net at some point to fill in some of the dual format disks or anything else I can find... I have seen this stuff mentioned quite a bit here...

[fiath]

Update:

This list is now complete from my collection, knowledge and analysis. However - I will try to find out more information in due course from the web - or from any more of these disks that get dumped by contributors.

[Twistin'Ghost]

Thanks for the update, fiath. These from your list I have in my collection:

Amiga Action
Ilyad (full game)
Armour Geddon (demo)
Purple Saturn Day (full game)
R-Type II (demo)
Liverpool (demo)

Amiga Format
Balance of Power (full game)
Archipelagos (full game)
Second Samurai (demo)
Uridium 2 (extra level) (I think I have this one)
Cannon Soccer (mini game)

Amiga Power
Bombuzal (full game)
Kid Gloves (full game)
"copy protected stuff from Sensible Software" (This is Disk 13 (there's TWO disk 13's...) from May 1992 and features a demo of Sensible Soccer, plus two Sensible freebie games: Sim Brick and Sensible Startest.)

I may have some other copy-protected coverdisks, but I have so many that I never finished testing them all. There's a few I seem to remember, but I'll wait until I have them in hand. My CA roomie called me this week to tell me my stuff is boxed and ready to send to me, so I went ahead and gave him the green light to sell a bunch of my rare albums to pay for the shipping (really tired of waiting for my stuff to get here!), so as soon as those arrive, I'll be able to dump, redump or dupe-dump for you. A few of them I have more than one copy of, as well, so that should help.

[Twistin'Ghost]

Originally posted by fiath
ST-Amiga Format
(all of them? - be nice to have a list though!)

ST-AMIGA FORMAT COVERDISK LIST
Issue #1 - July 1988
Amiga: INTERCEPTOR demo, VirusX, Othello, Drunken Mouse
ST: OIDS demo, Virus Killer, RAM Disk, Game Pokes, Monoware, Invaders, Disk Formatter, Art Goodies, Desktop Accesories

Issue #2 - August 1988
Amiga: STARRAY demo, Product Selector, VILBM, RSLClock
ST: POWER BASIC demo, Product Selector, DigiCalc, Desktop Accesories, Megaroids, MegBlit

Issue #3 - September 1988
Amiga: KIND WORDS demo, 3D Arm, FPic, Drop Shadow, Cheats
ST: POWERDROME demo, ChessNut, Sprite Editor, DC Clock, Cheats

Issue #4 - October 1988
Amiga: Missile Command, IFF2PCS, VT100, Lens, MC68010 Upgrades
ST: Pipe Panic, Mandelbrot Generation, Speller, ST Init, Pro Calculator, Rat Trap

Issue #5 - November 1988
Amiga: Amoeba Invaders, Icon Makers, MIDI Utility, DX Voice Filer, GOMF 1.0, Nemesis demo, Cheats
ST: Spooks, Light Fantasia, ST Switch, External RAMDis, B Boot, Dungeon Master Cheat, Desk_Pic

Issue #6 - December 1988
Amiga: PERFECT SOUND, Slideshow, AC-Windows, Handy Icons
ST: COLOSSUS CHESS X, MIDI Sequencer, Accounts, Format 11, Cheats!!

Issue #7 - January 1989
Amiga: Cosmoroids, MCAD, Amiga Spell, Iconiser, Zoing
ST: FLYING SHARK demo, Histart, FSEL, Elite Cheat

Issue #8 - February 1989
Amiga: PURPLE SATURN DAY demo, Scenery, ScreenX, Boot Saver, Cruncher, CLI Help
ST: PURPLE SATURN DAY demo, Database Construction Set, Message Writer, DOSACC

Issue #9 - March 1989
Amiga: Yelp!, NewZap, UtilMaster, DMouse, Exploding Window, WBKaleid
ST: Jitterbug, Speaktex, DiskMech, HangMan, CPanel, LineUp4

Issue #10 - April 1989
Amiga: CYBERNOID II demo, DEVPAC demo, PrinText
ST: ZAK MCKRACKEN demo, DEVPAC demo, Address Book, EdiText, Label Expert

Issue #11 - May 1989
Amiga: BLOOD MONEY demo, File Requester, DiskX, Sey Key, Four
ST: ARCHIPELAGOS demo, Replay 3, Chordex, PicSwitch 7, Fast Mouse

Issue #12 - June 1989
Amiga: COLOSSUS CHESS, Boot Intro, VirusX v3.10, Task Control, Tunnel
ST: FLAIR PAINT, ZapST, Typist, Sprite ST, Track It

Issue #13 - July 1989
Amiga: WICKED demo, Mandelshow, VCommands, WB Utils
ST: SPHERICAL demo, Tcos, FixDisk, Explode

[fiath]

Cool!

Cheers for all that, I will add them in when I get a second.

Good news on the dumping front too then!

Was there only 13 issues of St/Amiga Format then?

[Twistin'Ghost]

Yes, only 13. After that, the mag split into Amiga Format and ST Format (which was announced in issue 13).

[fiath]

Ah, I see

I remember seeing it in the shops, so I thought it was just a different mag...

I think it is going to be hard sourcing those guys...

Anyway, small update to list - few more known now.

[Feltzkrone]

Here's another one from a german regional mag called "Sundancer", issue is unknown.

Tony & Friends in Kellogg's Land (Factor 5 / Rauser Advertainment?) and was game for advertising Kellogg's.

It has Longtracks and is available as a cracked version. I've given this one (with a bunch of other games) to a friend to make WHDLoad versions out of it, but for this one no Installer exists.

The mag "Sundancer" has its origin in Gelsenkirchen (Germany) and is just some copied black on white paper plus one or two disks and was cheap, to stay exact - it was available for nothing.

I think it was spread in Gelsenkirchen (ofcourse), Essen and some neighbour cities, and was financed through lots of advertisement.

[fiath]

Hey nice! Thanks for that... I will add it.

If you get it back (or get your friend to) and dump it (with the CAPS tool) it would be very much appriciated!

[fiath]

More from Ronald - posted here because I am not going to reproduce all this information in the list...


ACE Magazine Issue ????, contents: Shadowlands (Amiga/ST), Arcade 4-Pack
(PC)

Amiga Action Issue ????, Disk 2, contents: James Pond, Horror Zombies
[hardware copy], really protected or a disk error????

Amiga Computing Issue Nov. 1990, contents: Games: SWIV, Cribbage, Utilities:
Cursor V1.1, VirusX 4.01
Amiga Computing Issue Sep. 1994, contents: Scroller 2 (NOT a game, but it is
protected)

Amiga Format Issue 18, Disk 18, contents: Total Recall (playable demo),
Lemmings (playable demo), Niall, Eliza

CU Amiga Issue ????, Disk 8, contents: Robocop 2, Lemmings, Eswat ????
[hardware copy], really protected or a disk error????

The One Issue ????, contents: Pipe mania, Gazza's super soccer, Team Yankee
The One Issue ????, contents: Rick Dangerous II (complete new level, Amiga
only), Midwinter II (interactive preview, ST only)

Zero Issue Oct. 1990, contents: F-29 special mission ("Playable only with
the original F-29"), Battle command (playable demo) [original and hardware
copy]
Zero Issue Dec. 1990, contents: Rampage (complete game), Simulcra (playable
demo)
Zero Issue Jan. 1991, contents: Viz, Chase ???? [hardware copy]
Zero Issue Feb. 1991, contents: Cadaver (new level), Chip Challenge ????
[hardware copy]
Zero Issue Mar. 1991, contents: Hunter (playable demo), Action Fighter
(Complete game, amiga only), Trantor(Complete game, ST only), Super Huey
(Complete game, amiga only)
Zero Issue Apr. 1991, contents: Loopz (playable demo), moonshine racer
(playable demo), Jahangir Khan Squash (playable demo, ST only)
Zero Issue Jun. 1991, contents: Hacker II (complete game), Chuck rock
(exclusive new levels), Zone Warrior (playable demo, ST only)
Zero Issue Jul. 1991, contents: Steel ("A Zero top 100 full price game!")
Zero Issue Aug. 1991, contents: Lords of chaos ("Brand spanking new Zero
exclusive mission!"), Frenetic ("Playable full level demo!")
Zero Issue Oct. 1991, contents: Magic pockets (playable demo), Magic garden
(playable demo)
Zero Issue Nov. 1991, contents: ???? [hardware copy]
Zero Issue Dec. 1991 disk 1/2, contents: Populous 2 (playable demo),
Ammotrak (full game, ST only) [hardware copy]
Zero Issue Dec. 1991 disk 2/2, contents: Another world (playable demo
Amiga/PC), Video Kids (playable demo, Amiga only)

[Twistin'Ghost]

This thread has become very productive and is really chiseling down the missing holes in this category. Good work!

[Akira]

Originally posted by Twistin'Ghost
This thread has become very productive and is really chiseling down the missing holes in this category. Good work!

Let's make it sticky then

[stuck]

nice

[fiath]

Cool

Anyway, added some stuff while searching around the net, and apart from rarer magazinea, I think this is more-or-less complete (apart from the missing information about each disk obviously).

If there are any others left out, just drop a post in here...

Now we just need to find them!

[Bernd]

ST Amiga Format:

Are the first 13 cover disks still required? I ask since in Fiath's posting they are marked with "NEEDS DUMP". In a later posting Twistin'Ghost lists the contents of these disks, but I do not know if this means they were already disk-imaged(?)

So if they are needed ask me... (I have all of them)

[fiath]

Yes, they are still needed (unless I got that wrong TG?).

If you PM me your email address or shoot a mail to contributions@caps-project.org, we can send you the tools to dump them with if that is okay?

However you do need an Amiga with 68020+ CPU, 2Mb of RAM, KS2+ and a PC link cable - unless you want to dump to HD in which case you will need about 6-8Mb of RAM...

Thanks!

[Bernd]

@fiath
I e-mailed you at the address you mentioned.
I have appropriate Amiga hardware (have been creating ADFs since 1997) and am looking forward to use your tool to dump these disks.

[fiath]

Thanks Bernd, looks forward to your contributions!

[fiath]

Thanks to A TON more dumps by Ronald + loads of more information, you may notice many of the "NEEDS DUMP" tags above have disappeared...

Anyway, here is the information by Ronald in full, just in case we need it (I have stipped much of it from above):

ACE Magazine
Shadowlands (Ami/ST) + Arcade 4-Pack (PC), ?, 1

Amiga Action
James Pond (License to Gill) + Horror Zombies, Jan 91 (Issue 16), 2

Amiga Computing
Games: SWIV (demo) + Cribbage | Other: Cursor + VirusX + Tune of the month + code clinic + AMOS programs, Nov 1990, CD013
Scroller 2 (full app), Sept 1994, ?

Amiga Format
Total Recall (demo) + Lemmings (demo) + Niall + Eliza, 18, 18a

CU Amiga
Robocop 2 + Lemmings + Eswat, ?, 8

One, The
Pipe Mania + Gazza's Super Soccer + Team Yankee (mistake made? only Empire (preview) and Pipemania (demo) are available from the menu, ?, ?
Rick Dangerous II (Amiga - complete new level) + Midwinter II (ST interactive preview), ?, ?

Zero
F-29 (Amiga/ST special mission - needs original F-F9) + Battle Command (Amiga/ST demo), Oct. 1990
Rampage (Amiga/ST full game) + Simulcra (Amiga/ST demo), Dec. 1990
Case (Amiga/ST full game) + Viz Game (Amiga/ST demo), Jan 1991
Cadaver (Amiga/ST extra level) + Chip's Challenge (Amiga/ST demo) + Turrican II (ST demo), Feb 1991
Hunter (Amiga/ST demo) + Action Fighter (Amiga full game) + Super Huey (ST full game) + Trantor (ST full game), Mar 1991
Loopz (Amiga/ST demo) + Moonshine Racer (Amiga/ST demo) + Jahangir Khan Squash (ST demo), Apr 1991
Hacker II (Amiga/ST full game) + Chuck Rock (Amiga/ST exclusive new levels) + Zone Warrior (ST demo), June 1991
Steel (Amiga/ST full game), Jul 1991
Lords of Chaos (Amiga/ST exclusive mission) + Frenetic (Amiga/ST demo), Aug 1991
Magic Pockets (Amiga/ST demo) + Magic Garden (Amiga/ST demo), Oct 1991
Devious Designs (Amiga demo) + Cardiaxx (Amiga demo) + Cisco Heat (ST demo) + Graham Gooch Cricket (St demo), Nov 1991
Populous 2 (Amiga/ST demo) + Ammotrack (ST full game), Dec 1991, 1 of 2
Another World (Amiga/PC demo) + Video Kids (Amiga demo), Dec 1991, 2 of 2

[MethodGit]

Huzzah! Tis' nice to see that you're also going to include magazine coverdisks (one of my FAVE things regarding the Amiga) in this project!

Thought I'd remind you about two other AP disks that haven't been mentioned once: Nipper Vs The Katz. This came on the first disk of AP32 and was designed as part of a competition involving HMV's "Level One" shop, and you could win £1000 and/or some other stuff with it! It was non DOS-readable.

The other is the Cannon Fodder disk from AP31. This allowed you to select from four different levels (with different features in each of them) from a menu (much like the AP45 CF2 demo, really) and also offered a whole quiz game exclusive to the disk!

And the AP13-1 disk also contains a demo of Wizkid, Twist forgot to mention.

The One also had a Cannon Fodder demo disk in July 1993, although this one had no menu - you played three (or was it four?) levels back to back. And there were no extras on the disk (so no quiz, etc). Their Rick Dangerous II demo was also known as "Rick Dangerous 2½", as it is known in its ADF (containing just the game, no T.O. menu) on the TOSEC set.

It'll be cool to see proper working dumps of the Zero disks as well, some of the ones available from Nth Dimension (particularly the ones in DMS format) don't work at all (did they even dump all the tracks on them?) and so are next to useless.

[fiath]

Hi, thanks for the info!

Just one thing, do the disks you mention actually have copy protection? You mention one is in TOSEC, is that because it is a crack? You mention it is non DOS readable, is that because it cannot be seen in Workbench, or can it not copied by XCopy either?

If not, (although we plan to do all coverdisks at some point), this thread is mainly trying to identify those coverdisks that are unavailable to the masses in their original form, and are hence slightly more important.

If they are copy protected, just let me know and I will add them. I have added the Wizball bit anyway.

Thanks!

[Mark Wright]

Dunno whether this is useful information or not (just seen the thread) but Rob Northen famoulsy concocted the ST/Amiga dual format for Future... he's fairly contactable (as Codetapper has demonstrated) if you need any advice (unlikely!)

[IFW]

Both Dual-Format, and Tri-Format is supported by our analyser. However generic hw mfm tracks (better known as PC/Atari format) needs to be added in a... (mostly) generic way
Therefore about 55% of such disks decode without any problem the rest is well known, but lack of time prevents generic Atari support... and lack of a decent amount of Atari dumps.

Originally posted by fiath

Amiga Fun
Trex Warrior (full game), Aug 94, ?, ?, NEEDS DUMP

One, The
Atomix (full game), ?, ?, Long tracks, UNKNOWN
Trex Warrior (full game), Aug 93, A, ?, NEEDS DUMP

I could perhaps do dumps of these disks.

I would require step by step information on how to go about doing this.

Someone once said that Zorro cards that generate interrupts must be removed before dumping. Is that true, cant they be disabled in software? I dunno if I can be arsed to do that.

Isnt the Amiga power version of "No Second Prize" on Amiga Power #65 Sep 96, also copy protected? It was the full game.

Later

Please do not post your signature in posts - configure it in the User Control Panel instead. Thanks, Cody

A4000/040@25
2MB ChipRAM, 16MB FASTRAM, 128MB Zorro FASTRAM
X-Surf
Picasso IV
DKB3128
DataFlyer A4000sx SCSI

P.S. In the issue of The One with Trex Warrior on the cover, Thalion Software make the game 100% Public Domain, so it is legal for CAPS to offer this disk image (when you get it!). I can provide a scan of the magazine if you dont believe me.

Originally posted by IFW
but lack of time prevents generic Atari support... and lack of a decent amount of Atari dumps.

Once someone has talked me through dumping (assuming that I dont have to remove all my Zorro cards) then I can dump all of the Thalion Games Amiga and Atari ST disks, and the dual format disks.

Cheers

Please do not post your signature in posts - configure it in the User Control Panel instead. Thanks, Cody

[IFW]

Alex,

The interrupt generation of several later hw add-ons to the Amiga can't be controlled properly, neither through the OS functions nor writing the related hw registers, hence they periodically generate uncontrolled interrupts that used to disrupt the delicate timing required for the dumping process ("rogue interrupts").

However in the last release of the dumping disk/tool this has been fixed, by adding two new dumping methods that do not depend on any kind of interrupts.

Hence you don't have to remove any hardware from your machine to dump disks. This has been a problem before, not anymore since one member got hold on a "problem hardware" so we could circumvent the hw issue properly.

Either see the thread in the CAPS Project forum here, called "New Dumping Disk" or the latest WIP page on our site.

As for getting the latest dumping disk simply get in contact with us.

www.caps-project.org

"contact us"

Or e-mail directly.

The disk comes with complete step-by-step instructions, and the dumping framework coming with the program gives you detailed information throughout the dumping process, but if you encounter any problem of course we are there to help.
Please note, that only do a test dump first - preferably from a game with a fully supported format, ie not Atari for the test dump - so if we see any problem, we can tell you what to do. I guess by your config that you should try to use dumping/hardware mode 1 or 2 anyway.

What is a good test game to dump, so that you can see if everything is working??

I have SOTB II here, is that a good test disk?

I could then go onto Dump the demos of SOTB and SOTB2 which you can currently get as WHDLoad installs if you aint already seen them.

The disks have their own Psygnosis disk duplicator tool on them for SOTB1 and SOTB2 formats

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[IFW]

Please mail me a gamelist and I tell you which one.
SOTB games do not have EDCs (checksums) apart from SOTB3, so that's not really a nice test.

[fiath]

Dumping tools sent... And thanks for your info Alex! I will add it in to the list.

Originally posted by IFW
Please mail me a gamelist and I tell you which one.
SOTB games do not have EDCs (checksums) apart from SOTB3, so that's not really a nice test.

> Please mail me a list of your original games, so we can determine one to use as a test dump.

Chambers of Shaolin - Thalion
Warp - Thalion
The Seven Gates of Jambala - Thalion
Leavin' Teramis - Thalion
Dragonflight - Thalion
Enchanted Land - Thalion
Trex Warrior - Thalion
Wings of Death - Thalion
Tower FRA - Thalion
Amberstar - Thalion
Ambermoon - Thalion
Lionheart - Thalion
Tangram - Thalion
Neuronics - Thalion
A Prehistoric Tale - Thalion
No Second Prize - Thalion
A320 Airbus - Thalion
A320 Airbus USA -Thalion
Atomix - Thalion
Lethal Xcess - Eclipse
Monster Buisness - Eclipse
Stone Age - Eclipse

Worms - Team17
The Killing Gameshow - Psygnosis
Shadow of the Beast 2 - Psygnosis
Shadow of the Beast 3 - Psygnosis (sealed)
Elf - Ocean
Zool 1 - Gremlin
Dune 1 - Virgin
F29 Retaliator - Ocean
Rings of Medusa
Gods - Mirrorsoft
Treasure Island Dizzy - Codemasters
Speedball - Mirrorsoft
Bloodmoney - Psygnosis
Dungeon Master - FTL
BattleSquadron

Loads more I cant be arsed to list.

Anything there we can work with?

[IFW]

Sure.
Elf and Gods are perfect examples, both are Copylock protected and can show any problem nicely.
I suggest you try with mode 1, 0 probably wouldn't work on your setup.

[fiath]

List updated. Though we need to run through the ones we have to check if they are supported yet, because it is a long time since we did that.

Anyway, with the release of Cannon Fodder Plus, we now officially do coverdisks! If you would like to get a coverdisk released (even if it is not on this list, it may even be a normal ADOS disk) then we need three things:

1) A dump of the coverdisk (if we don't already have it)
2) A scan of the disk itself
3) Scans of associated magazine instructions / articles.

For dumping, contact us for the dumping tools if you don't already have them.

For scanning, see the normal guidelines here: http://www.caps-project.org/scanning.shtml


The only coverdisks we don't do are those have have no games on, if you are unsure, then just drop us a mail.


All enquiries: caps@caps-project.org

Thanks!

[Twistin'Ghost]

Perhaps you can post a list of the good dumps you have and some of the rest of us can provide scans. I have some coverdisks here, plus most of my mags and can probably scan the mag's instructions pages with little effort.

[fiath]

I just went over the dumps - generally anything marked as DUMPED means it is 100% and can be released after scans are available.