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My corrupted SCP dump of this Xenon II KIXX disk can be found at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ozb...ew?usp=sharing Last edited by solarmon; 27 October 2020 at 21:57. |
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can't help = no version available to fix I asked for the dump in order to see which version it is. |
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You need to clean the disk.... |
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This is why I'm looking for a clean dump image to be able to restore it. |
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27 October 2020, 21:44 | #27 |
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it's possible to copy those disks using RNCopy, a program which is able to shorten the gap of RN protected tracks.
I remember being able to make a copy of Xenon II back in the day. This copy works, and is then copiable with a nibble copier. from the IPF, use RNCopy on an extended .ADF, then nibblewarp/mfmwarp/wwarp it (or directly wwarp it, wwarp knows the PDOS format but not sure if wwarp can write back to disk with proper format). Then use the warp to create a working copy of the floppy on a real amiga, and copy back only the bad sectors on the original disk. wwarp is also able to write those back (maybe) ? |
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27 October 2020, 22:19 | #29 |
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you can use RNCopy (an old program dedicated to PDOS/RN 12-track format) to backup PDOS disks (non copiable using nibble) into PDOS-like disks (reduces the gap too, disks can be written & copied)
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An update on this. There are at least three track-format variants of Xenon 2.
2-disk, AmigaDos with Copylock. This is SPS IPF #0297. It is original retail 2-disk. 1-disk, custom *very* long tracks + Speedlock. This is SPS IPF #2234. It is 1-disk version from The Power Pack compilation. 1-disk, RNC PDOS, no protection track. It is 1-disk KIXX budget version. We want a dump of this one!! All of these can be checked/verified/converted with my Disk-Utilities. Unfortunately solarmon's KIXX dump has 6 or 7 bad PDOS tracks. |
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And with that, solarmon just found his earlier good dump of the KIXX release! This is confirmed by 100% perfect conversion of the dump to IPF by my Disk-Utilities.
I have zipped the SCP and IPF files and uploaded to The Zone. In my opinion at least the IPF belongs in the Unofficial IPFs collection on the EAB file server, as I don't believe that version is preserved anywhere else. There is no official SPS/IPF version of it. |
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28 October 2020, 19:16 | #33 |
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I will sort it tonight and will be doing an IPF out if this dump. Thanks keir
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28 October 2020, 21:34 | #34 |
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there are at least 6 versions of this game (a lot of different 2 disk copylock versions)... a nightmare to support them all in whdload.
Not sure at all that 1-disk, custom *very* long tracks + Speedlock. SPS IPF #2234 is supported though... |
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2234 is supported
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Yeah, I read that in the WHDLoad notes. I figure/hope that these six probably all use one of the three stated track formats (eg, AmigaDOS + Copylock) and just the data content is varying.
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okay, here's a small tutorial on how to convert PDOS RN tracks from .IPF to extended .ADF
All the info is in the wwarp "readme.txt" file but for PDOS it's pretty straightforward (so much that I only was able to do it successfully in 2020 ) Okay so: - first mount the .IPF image on WinUAE - then use wwarp to create a warp file of the disk (here: Xenon 2 1 disk) Code:
wwarp xenon2.wwp C 0-159 creating new wwarp file "xenon2zzz.wwp" from DF0: 160 tracks reading track 0 format dos ($1600+0 bytes) reading track 1 format robnorthen ($1800+4 bytes) reading track 2 format robnorthen ($1800+4 bytes) ... reading track 158 format robnorthen ($1800+4 bytes) reading track 159 format robnorthen ($1800+4 bytes) Code:
wwarp xenon2.wwp F skipping track 0, no raw mfm-data! skipping track 1, no raw mfm-data! ... skipping track 158, no raw mfm-data! skipping track 159, no raw mfm-data! - finally, insert a blank floppy in DF0: and type Code:
wwarp xenon2.wwp W 0-159 writing track 0, format dos writing track 1, format robnorthen testing drive/dma speed at track 1, $317C.0 $317C.0 $317C.0 $317C.0 $317C.0, using writelen $3194. writing track 2, format robnorthen writing track 3, format robnorthen writing track 4, format robnorthen writing track 5, format robnorthen ... writing track 159, format robnorthen You can also perform the test with WinUAE, selecting a blank custom (extended) adf disk that you create with floppy tab in winuae. The extended adf boots all right. If you just want to restore the corrupt sectors of your original, now use this copy and x-copy in nibble mode to only copy the corrupt tracks from the copy to the original. And keep the .wwp file somewhere for backup. There's also a very nice tool to use on amiga called RN-Copy that allows to copy original PDOS disks (Xenon 2, Superfrog, Project-X Special Edition, ...) to another floppy. You need 2 drives. You can use it on winuae to convert .IPF to extended .ADF but that doesn't solve the "write back to disk" issue on real hardware RN-Copy.zip |
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