| Posted at 10:16 on May 23rd, 2019 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
 Member Zombie Gumby Posts: 3881 | @bmanbdaman, Added: Mortal Kombat 2 (3065): All disks were infected with Stealth_Boot.C virus (fixed). Manual copy protection. The only real problem with this game is, in fact, the virus, which was surprisingly fixed by Windows Defender as opposed to just removing the files altogether. It did recover the boot sector of each image, but now I cannot guarantee the boot data is 100% identical to the original. I just don't know. All I know is that the files are now positively healthy, which this time required no manual labor on my part. As for the timestamps, they look pretty legit to me. Yes, it is quite uncommon for them to be more recent than the file's true creation/modification date, but some manufacturers do it for unknown reasons, and I'm pretty sure your disks weren't made using the CLASSIC release, at least there is no trace of CT, which is indicative of file copy under windows. Someone undertaking such task should be clever enough to do it under DOS let alone filter out CLASSIC info files, meaning, this scenario is highly improbable. ----- Cheer up! Remember the less you have, the more there is to get. ----- Edited by Moebius at 20:03 on May 23rd, 2019 |
| Posted at 20:20 on May 23rd, 2019 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
Member Zombie Gumby Posts: 3881 | @Vreyes, Unfortunately your images of La Colmena cannot be accepted as they are self-made with WinImage. ----- Cheer up! Remember the less you have, the more there is to get. |
| Posted at 12:03 on May 24th, 2019 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
Member Bachelor Gumby Posts: 54 | Originally posted by Moebius at 10:16 on May 23rd, 2019: @bmanbdaman, Added: Mortal Kombat 2 (3065): All disks were infected with Stealth_Boot.C virus (fixed). Manual copy protection. Hmm. $100 for infected disks, not sure if I got a good deal. :] |
| Posted at 17:26 on May 24th, 2019 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
Member Zombie Gumby Posts: 3881 | Originally posted by bmanbdaman at 12:03 on May 24th, 2019: Originally posted by Moebius at 10:16 on May 23rd, 2019: @bmanbdaman, Added: Mortal Kombat 2 (3065): All disks were infected with Stealth_Boot.C virus (fixed). Manual copy protection. Hmm. $100 for infected disks, not sure if I got a good deal. :] Well, it's always a risk, you know... but this floppy edition is also rare as hell, so, I think, it was worth it overall. Of course, I'd rather it was a couple of bad sectors instead, because that would be so much easier to fix with no doubts as to accuracy. But boot sectors can always vary a bit even with the same OEM IDs and geometry and what really sucked is that every single disk was infected and I couldn't use at least one for comparison. Oh well, let us hope the new boot data is actually old and matches the original or that soon enough someone will upload a new set of this game for comparison/verification. Thank you very much for your costly contribution! ----- Cheer up! Remember the less you have, the more there is to get. |
| Posted at 20:28 on May 27th, 2019 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
Member Zombie Gumby Posts: 3881 | Added: Animation Creation: v1.00 Armorik the Viking: The Eight Conquests (3067): French release Big Blue Disk Sampler (3068): Compilation consisting of Hearts (game), Magic Boxes (educational), Jacket (application), Blueline Editor (application). Cribbage Master (3069): For Win 3.x Descent (3070): v1.0 Shareware Epic Pinball (3071): Mr. Disk shareware release Epic Pinball - Crash & Burn (3072) Epic Pinball - Deep Sea (3073) Epic Pinball - Enigma (3074) Epic Pinball (3075): Special Acer Edition ----- Cheer up! Remember the less you have, the more there is to get. ----- Edited by Moebius at 21:02 on May 27th, 2019 |
| Posted at 14:51 on June 1st, 2019 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
Member Zombie Gumby Posts: 3881 | @flyers80, Added: James Pond 2 - Codename: Robocod (3076): Kixx release. PGA Tour Golf: Manual copy protection. PGA Tour Golf: Tournament Course Disk (3078): Data disk for PGA Tour Golf containing 3 new courses: Southwind, Scottsdale and Eagle Trace. ----- Cheer up! Remember the less you have, the more there is to get. |
| Posted at 19:44 on June 2nd, 2019 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
Member Zombie Gumby Posts: 3881 | Added: Chuck Yeager's Air Combat (3079): Gravis Ultrasound Edition Inca (3080): A few different bytes from ID 2147. SimEarth: The Living Planet (3081): v1.4 Ultima 5: Warriors of Destiny (3082): From the "Ultima: The Second Trilogy" pack. Missing CP. Ultima 6: The False Prophet (3083): v4.5. Fixes ID 400. ----- Cheer up! Remember the less you have, the more there is to get. |
| Posted at 18:45 on June 3rd, 2019 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
Member Zombie Gumby Posts: 3881 | @flyers80, Replaced: Motorbike Madness (2039): Former image had a few modified blank sectors (read errors). Verified. Added: On Safari (3085): AKA Safari Guns. English/Deutsch. Pinball Dreams II (3087): Cleaned RootDir (CT). Populous (3088) Pub Pool (3089) Rock 'n Roll (3090): Modified OEM ID and RootDir (AT). Rock 'n Roll (3091): Cleaned RootDir (AT). Rotor (3092) Dungeon Master 2: The Legend of Skullkeep (3093) ----- Cheer up! Remember the less you have, the more there is to get. ----- Edited by Moebius at 19:29 on June 3rd, 2019 |
| Posted at 14:37 on June 4th, 2019 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
 Member Bachelor Gumby Posts: 60 | Awesome new games! Rotor (3092) : Looks like there's a little glitch here: - Disk image file name is "Rotor (Microdaft)(1991)(5,25'').img" - It's a 360K 5.25" DS DD, not a 720K 3.5" DD disk RetroBunny |
| Posted at 15:21 on June 4th, 2019 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
Member Zombie Gumby Posts: 3881 | Quote: Rotor (3092) : Looks like there's a little glitch here: Corrected, thank you. ----- Cheer up! Remember the less you have, the more there is to get. |
| Posted at 21:07 on June 6th, 2019 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
Member Zombie Gumby Posts: 3881 | @flyers80, Added: Railroad Tycoon (3094): v455.00 Side Arms Hyper Dyne (3095) Sidewinder (3096) Silpheed (3097): v1.0. Fixes ID 355. Verified. Silpheed (3098): v1.0. Fixes ID 356. Verified. Sky Runner (3099) Sports Spectacular (3100): From The 16bit Pocket Power Collection. Star Trek: 25th Anniversary (3101): v1.00 Strike Force (3102): From The 16bit Pocket Power Collection. Super Tetris (3103): v1.0 ----- Cheer up! Remember the less you have, the more there is to get. |
| Posted at 18:38 on June 7th, 2019 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
Member Zombie Gumby Posts: 3881 | @flyers80, Replaced: Venom (2063): Former image had a few modified blank sectors (read errors). Added: The Holy Grail (3104) Thunder Blade (3105) Tiger Road (3106): Restored OEM ID. Total Eclipse (3107): Cleaned RootDir (CT). Wasteland (3108): Fixes ID 2233. Verified. Worlds of Ultima 2: Martian Dreams (3109): v1.4 Superfrog (3110): Modified OEM ID on both disks, embedded AT on disk 1 and CT+AT on disk 2. Disk 2 is 3.5" DD (720kB). ----- Cheer up! Remember the less you have, the more there is to get. ----- Edited by Moebius at 20:06 on June 7th, 2019 |
| Posted at 20:54 on June 8th, 2019 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
Member Bachelor Gumby Posts: 60 | Got an untouched "Descent" disk set from eBay today. Almost identical to id #1614. Uploaded. Have fun! - RetroBunny  |
| Posted at 22:02 on June 8th, 2019 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
Member Zombie Gumby Posts: 3881 | @RetroBunny, Added and set to verified. Thank you. ----- Cheer up! Remember the less you have, the more there is to get. |
| Posted at 16:12 on June 10th, 2019 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
Member Bachelor Gumby Posts: 60 | @Moebius: In your database, Descent's disk1.img (id#3111) does have an SHA-1 hash of "b79fe9475b779a479af391dc5f52953ba1a7400e". This seems wrong. It should be "e0536e9f19f5d2be97987fa3f891d7949cfd2dd1". Strangely, your CRC32 hash matches my value with "9328930C". Anyway, I think this is an error. |
| Posted at 16:15 on June 10th, 2019 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
Member Zombie Gumby Posts: 3881 | Corrected, thank you. I copied the hash of ID 1614 by mistake. Not sure about CRC32, where did you see that? ----- Cheer up! Remember the less you have, the more there is to get. ----- Edited by Moebius at 16:17 on June 10th, 2019 |
| Posted at 16:19 on June 10th, 2019 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
Member Bachelor Gumby Posts: 60 | Originally posted by Moebius at 16:15 on June 10th, 2019: Not sure about CRC32, where did you see that? It's in your tgod_floppy_images.dat XML. |
| Posted at 16:30 on June 10th, 2019 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
Member Zombie Gumby Posts: 3881 | Oh, I see. Well, that must be generated internally by the script. Eventually it will take over SHA1 too and we shall rid of manual hashing (and mistakes) once and for all. ----- Cheer up! Remember the less you have, the more there is to get. |
| Posted at 23:47 on June 11th, 2019 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
Member Bachelor Gumby Posts: 60 | I found another set of "Descent" shareware disks. Version 1.1. (Usually, I'd prefer the commercial/full version, but since I only owned the Shareware version as a kid, I do have a soft spot for these.) |
| Posted at 12:49 on June 12th, 2019 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
 Member Bachelor Gumby Posts: 43 | Originally posted by RetroBunny at 20:54 on June 8th, 2019: Got an untouched "Descent" disk set from eBay today. Almost identical to id #1614. Uploaded. Have fun! - RetroBunny That's awesome, may I ask you how you got it? Make sure to always have the disks in "write protected mode"! ----- Edited by Otaku at 13:23 on June 12th, 2019 |