Re: Realms of Darkness

[roughana <andrew.roughan@writeme.com>]

On Tuesday, 25 September 2012, Hot Rod wrote: 
>The problem with finishing this cracks lies in the fact that sides 2 and 3 contain more data than can be >put back onto the same side of a 16 sector disk. The options therefore are to either move some of the >data to extra disks, use 40 tracks, use a packer/unpacker that recreates the original 18 sector format, >remove some of the data completely

One thought crossed my mind on the 18 sector stuff based on my experience with Last Ninja, perhaps some sectors are duplicated, in which case you can reduce the amount of data to store by eliminating that.

I will have to write up my Last Ninja effort one of these days: double sided 18 sector into double sided 16 sector. That was my highest achievement and required a custom RWTS.


On Friday, September 28, 2012 6:05:47 AM UTC+10, Antoine Vignau wrote:
 
> I have such a project for Mandragore, programmed by Emile and protected by The Softman (understand the same person).

That sounds very interesting. Do you have an original disk that you can bit copy and send to me?

Regards,
Andrew