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

[dog_cow@macgui.com (D Finnigan)]

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.

You're welcome. It ended up taking me two weekends of work with ADT. There
may be a few disks which I should used a nibble transfer, so if anyone finds
disks that don't work, let me know.

A bigger "problem" however, was the large number of completely unlabeled
disks, or the disks that didn't boot. I haven't had the time to use a sector
editor to look at them, so I imaged them all.

> 
> Take a look at Asimov - it's unpacked there already:
>
ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/images/disk_utils/cracking/the_saltine/
>

Indeed. The file has been downloaded from Mac GUI 53 times so far. I must
say, though, that's probably not the best choice of location for the
Saltine's disks on Asimov. Not all of the disks were related to cracking.
Some just had ordinary games, or were Dazzle Draw graphics or word
processing programs.

When they will be added at Mac GUI Vault, they will be sorted into the
appropriate categories, and then the one big file will also be available too
(it will be at a different location, though).

Oh, and I'll upload some photos too. Some of the disks had rather
interesting labels. :-)

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