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Re: Backing up Larry
BLuRry wrote:
Michael, thanks for the disk repair tips. I remember as a kid that my
version of "Norton Disk Doctor" was to rotate the media and
**CAREFULLY** blow off dust and dirt making sure I wouldn't spray
saliva onto the media in the process. Used to have a pretty high
success rate with that one. Is windex/ammonia safe on magnetic media??
Would denatured alcohol be better? (it's what you use for cleaning
heads...)
You use alcohol to clean heads because it softens the binder used
in the magnetic coating--so it's not a good choice for cleaning
the media itself. ;-)
Windex has proven quite safe, but with some dirt-cutting ability.
Well, the airheart "hot rod" cracked version is 100% playable all the
way thru the ending. I've beaten it before in an emulator. So the
only reason i'm bummed is that I have an original disk and I have to
resort to playing a pirated copy. Then again, this //c drive seems to
be picky about what it reads -- I might have better luck with the //e
drive (it's read floppies that this //c cannot seem to -- and it has a
HARD DRIVE attached ;-) Jesus, it would be great if I could get the
specturm holobyte Tetris disk to boot as well!!
First thing to try on any disk that doesn't read is another drive. ;-)
I think ultimately it might be very rad to have a nibble copier in
prodos that can generate a .dsk or .nib image file directly. Surely
someone did this already? Copy ][+ only goes from one disk to another.
:-/ There's a ton of dos 3.3 based tools out there (locksmith was my
old fav) but those were also solely disk-to-disk.
You'd think so, but I haven't seen one. The .nib format is primarily
an emulator format, so they weren't that big when people were using
the real hardware. Then there's the fact that a .nib doesn't really
capture many of the copy protection possibilities--particularly the
later, more creative ones.
-michael
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