Re: Need replacement disks for Tower of Myraglen

[Mitchell Spector <mitch2gs@hotmail.com>]

"PZ" <skierpaul@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Mitchell Spector wrote:
>> Just got an interesting gift tonight. One of my friends was at a
>> flea market and picked me up an original copy (apparently never
>> used!) of PBI's Tower of Myraglen game. Everything came in near
>> mint condition, although it seems after some 20 years the floppy
>> disks experienced disk rot. :(
>>
>>     I can see a listing of the files from the Finder but it fails to boot
>> (and doing a verification of the disk reveals +90% is unreadable
>> with errors; the second disk faired a bit better though).
>>
>>     I'd like to refresh the disks with the _original_ version, not the
>> cracked version with the "Pirate Fest '87" title screen and
>> digitized audio message. Does anyone out there have the
>> original disks?
>
>This should be what you're looking for:
>
>http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/the_fairway/game_pages/tower_of_myraglen.html

    I had at look at that *.2MG image in an emulator and it's the same
cracked version I mentioned above: Pirate Fest '87 with the "loader
by the Screamer". Unfortunately the title screen is damaged and it
skips the musical/graphical introduction before it completes.

    I need a clean copy from an original disk set (I'd be happy to scan
the manual and disks if anyone wants proof that I own the original).
I tried doing an image copy of the original disk with ZZCopy but it
shows the disk completely full of "holes". Amusing that the pirated 
version has out lived the legal copy. :)

>The GS Memory Fairway supposedly removed all of the crack screens from
>everything they host.

    A best effort is made to use clean copies (or remove the crack
screens when possible) but that obviously isn't possible for each 
and every archived image.

Mitchell Spector