20 March 2002, 07:39 | #1 |
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Persian Gulf / North Sea Inferno
Are these two the same games ?
Persian Gulf Inferno North Sea Inferno Seen the screenshots and they do seem the same. TC |
20 March 2002, 08:09 | #2 |
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They both were published by Magic Bytes, North Sea Inferno in 1989 and Persian Gulf Inferno in 1990. Check out this site for more info on them.
http://www.bhlegend.com/php/show.php...no&list=search |
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Hmm... I posted a request for that game on the GAEB recently...
-- I'm looking for the censored version of Persian Gulf Inferno called North Sea Inferno. I know that the titlepic was altered in that version, but I'm not sure if other things were altered too. -- |
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Ahh, so it was only censored then ? I tried looking for an .adf of it with no luck.
btw. if you look at the files on the floppy you will see that even though it says Persian Gulf Inferno, all files have NSI* infront of them |
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I know that the US version is slightly different than the Euro version, but I don't know if the game was ever published under the title North Sea Inferno (on the Amiga); never seen any evidence of this anyway. Can anyone confirm this?
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I once had a version with the title screen saying "North Sea Inferno" but I cannot confirm if it was published that way or just a kind of "hack" with an altered title screen But it was YEARS ago and most of my first Amiga collection disappeared, since I sold my first Amiga back then ....
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Ahem... Anyway, I can confirm that this is indeed an original game and published on the Amiga by Magic Bytes (developer "micro-partner Software GmbH") in 1990. The version we have at CAPS is the German version (actually we have 2 copies of the game) - although the game itself is in English. As for copy protection, it seems that every track is a "long track" and very nearly all are of a custom format (so you would not be able to copy them (in e.g. XCopy) even without the long tracks). More info will be available when it is reverse engineered. As for Persian Gulf - I have no idea. This is the version I used to have, but I do not have it any longer |
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Well, I have an original (US) of Persian Gulf Inferno, plus the usual cracks of the game. Glad to know CAPS has the North Sea version. I should already know this, but you know how lax I am and how far I let myself get behind in stuff (which is why you don't hear from me for months at a time! )
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Hehe, no problem. :o)
Great to know you have Persian Gulf!! (I love this game) Actually, it is Christian who has this game - and so it is not on "the list" (yet) anyway. However, in usual Christian style it is dumped - in fact both copies are - and they both look to be 100% *from the checks made so far*. Obviously the custom tracks will have to be reverse engineered before we can say positively if it is totally 100% or not. But both disks are in good condition. For others reading this, yes we can tell this from the dumps! Older games begin to vary in certain things, the most obvious being density along a track (slight variations - not copy protection and obviously not intentional). This is slightly over-simplified since the older type of mastering hardware(s) used on disks from around 1986-1989 was "not very good" to say the least. But peliminary tests show they have a very good probability of being good dumps from good disks. More to come when the analyser is finished (see - now old - WIP). Only a few more things to do now. |
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Well, this week I have already received two big boxes of games with about 100 games. Maybe 1/3 to 1/4 of it was dupes, however, but this is useful for comparison dumps. A lot of US titles this time out, so that stuff is kinda different. I finally completeed my Jack Nicklaus Course Disk collection (I now have all five...the whole set is pretty hard to come by, I think). And some other stuff. I really need to get you an updated list. That is if Christian leaves anything to be dumped!
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Cool!
Yeah, I know what you mean about Christian. He is currently on about 5 games dumped per day. It adds up. The last few days however he dumped about 15 games per day - obviously some of these are multi-disk too. Mind you, on his super-fast Amiga (060) dumping to RAM - it does not take him as long to dump stuff as it does you or I. (he uploads via a University connection straight from his Amiga) |
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Aye Carumba! That's a pretty massive workload! Maybe after he gets all of those done and is twiddling his thumbs, he can scan the boxes of the obscurities!
I need to see a list of all he has dumped... |
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PGI - 512 K?
Pardon me for jumping in here ...
but as you're talking about PGI: Kieron, does the original version work on a stock 512 K Amiga WITHOUT RAM expansion? AFAIK, the cracked version never worked with a 512K Amiga, at least none of the various versions spread around ever did. |
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Actually Christian says he spends 30 hours a week scanning box art, manual etc! He sends it all in to The Legacy. |
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@Faith, when are you going to send out that CAPS dumping disk to me, you have already emailed me saying you were. Something about finishing it up you mentioned in the last email to me
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Hi jmmijo,
Yeah, sorry it is taking so long. It is finished, but while adding AmigaOS 2.x support, I introduced a nasty bug which I have so far not been able to fix... (this is not the dumping software itself, but the AmigaDOS scripts that drive the s/w). Anyway, shoot me a mail and I will send it out to you asap as soon as it is done (probably in a couple of days). |
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One other thing, are you folks also wanting dumps from PD/Sharware disks? I have a few disks from the Software of the Month Club as well as a local Amiga user group. Hopefully I'll have some more obscure stuff that you don't know about or have |
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