06 November 2020, 20:27 | #1 |
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Help transferring Amiga Power 13 - Sensible Brick
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Sensible Brick was mentioned online a couple weeks back, and I thought it looked like a wonderfully craptastic game! I wanted to try it out, but the ADF images of the Amiga Power 13 cover disk did not want to run the game. I assume the game is copy protected, and that's what causing the game to fail. Well, I found the cover disk on eBay, ordered it, and received it today. Now, I really want to transfer this disk to an ADF-file, so that I can play it on an emulator and maybe even preserve it in some way. Is there someone here that can give me any pointers how to transfer it in a way that carries with it the copy protection? I have an Amiga 1200 available, so I guess I need some advanced AFD software for the Amiga? Last edited by superrune; 06 November 2020 at 20:38. |
06 November 2020, 20:41 | #2 |
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It probably uses the Sensible Software MFM disk system.
You need to use MFMWarp that wil image the disk into a file that someone can then crack to ADF plain format. |
06 November 2020, 22:34 | #3 |
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Cracking is definitely outside of my skill set! But it would be great to preserve this wonderfully stupid bit of Sensible history. Do you think there's someone who might be interested in "liberating" this software from its shackles? I've spent a couple days trying to find a copy online and on FTPs, and it seems like it's not available anywhere.
And sorry if this talk of copying is breaking forum regulations... |
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Go here:http://whdload.de/whdload/Tools/MFMWarp.lha Download that and assuming your Amiga has a hard drive, copy the files into your main C directory Then, to use: MFMWARP read sys:Sensible And then hit RETURN If you don't have a hard drive, you'll need to copy the files from that MFMWarp.lha archive to a floppy disk and boot your Amiga with the disk in the drive. Then to use: MFMWARP read ram:Sensible And ten hit RETURN Hopefully the resulting warp file will be small enough to be copied to a normal dos disk and you just upload here to the zone. Last edited by Galahad/FLT; 06 November 2020 at 23:30. |
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EDIT: As Arnie says below, it used to be available on AMR in adz format (see archived d/l link below).....so just a hop, skip and a jump to convert to ADF. https://is.gd/tHaInn EDIT 2: Actually, it looks like GoADF and mADFloppy will unpack adz as-is to floppy - nice! http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/GoADF http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/mADFloppy EDIT 3: No go - bummer! See Arnie's EDIT below.... Last edited by DrBong; 07 November 2020 at 12:37. Reason: Added EDITS + links! ;-) |
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Is this the disk you mean?
I have it in adz format (easy to convert to adf via adfopus) EDIT: NAH, Sim Brick wont start, stuck on track 1. Last edited by Arnie; 08 December 2020 at 12:36. |
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10 November 2020, 09:43 | #9 |
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Thanks for your replies!
@galahad - Nudge nudge! The file might fall out of my pocket in a convenient location, ho hum! @DrBong, @Arnie - Yes, I've tried every single version that google found, and as far as I can see there is no version of Sim Brick available to play. @Keir - Looks interesting. But after reading a bit about IPF, it seems like the file has to be sent off to someone for conversion and that I might not get it back for sharing? |
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I've uploaded a working version to the Zone.
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10 November 2020, 20:35 | #12 |
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Thanks Cody.
If the aim of the game is squashing ants, then I've cracked it, otherwise I'm shit at this game |
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Any chance of on the fly ADF writing ability? Currently I convert ADF to SCP to write back without Amiga. |
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@Adrian
Good one mate! I'm guessing I'd be about as good at this game as Arnie, though! |
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11 November 2020, 21:31 | #16 |
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I produced a clean verified IPF and put that in the Zone. The source is a CT RAW dump I was given a link to.
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disk-analyse --format=sensible AmigaPower.raw AmigaPower.ipf |
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I look forward to the ADF support. Will verify be possible in this scenario since IPF and SCP flux formats are not verified (if I'm not mistaken)? Is this the command line needed to convert from SCP (I note your input was .raw for this particular image) to IPF? How did you verify the dump?! I only ask because this opens up possibilities for more IPFs that are not SPS verified but verified nonetheless through user means. |
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@Keir Do the IPFs generated by your analyser match official SPS IPF checksums? eg. I give a raw dump to SPS and get an IPF with checksum 0x12345678. Will your analyser also give 0x12345678?
I feel like they'd be different but I figure I should ask |
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Is there any plans to combine GW with Disk-Analyse to allow direct output conversion as soon as dumps are made and equally convert to supported format for writing back? |
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