Re: Looking for directions on how to backup The Bilestoad

[Hot Rod <hotrod.apple2@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday, March 20, 2013 12:25:34 AM UTC-5, roger....@gmail.com wrote:
> It's the "pursuit aesthetic" bug I have with some things.  Don't get me wrong I love me some "crack screens" but I was thrilled to see an intro to the game that I'd never seen before.   
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> > I have occasionally re-filecracked games for authenticity.
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> > > Just don't want to ruin it (or have it ruined by one of the kids) 
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> > > especially since there were less than 5000 ever sold.
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I went rummaging back through the disk images I have from my collection I imaged last year, and found a crack of The Bilestoad that The Burglar had done, which leaves the original intro and title screen intact (along with the animation and sound for it).  It's a full disk image, but has a handful of files on it.  Looks like he just saved out the various pieces as loaded by the original and instead loads them one at a time via DOS.  Still has some text crack screens added, but the original content is left alone, which is better than the modified and shortened versions I guess.

I've uploaded it to asimov.  

]HR