Re: The Saltine's Disks Archived at Mac GUI Vault

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

schmidtd wrote:
> On Feb 28, 6:23 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
>
> > D Finnigan wrote:
> >
> > > Notorious Apple II cracker, The Saltine, perhaps best known for his
> > > single-disk crack of Prince of Persia, has donated his disk collection, some
> > > 140 5.25" disks, to Mac GUI Vault to be archived.
>
>
> That's awesome.  Thanks for doing the legwork.
>
>
> > > Download the collection:http://macgui.com/The_Saltine.tar.bz2
> >
> > WinZip certainly doesn't like it--"Error reading header after processing
> > 0 entries."
>
>
> Take a look at Asimov - it's unpacked there already:
> ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/images/disk_utils/cracking/the_saltine/

Outstanding!

I was using an old version of WinZip (v6.3!), foolishly thinking that
the world had enough different compressed archive formats already... ;-)

-michael

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