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swasti
Registered: Jul 2007
Posts: 120 |
THE MOVERS Treasure Chest II
hello dudes,
fresh from my red hot glowing 1541-ii disk drive - another transferpack (finished some minutes ago..). i got the disks from a friend with his c64.
246 transfered disk sides in the pack.
that was a bloody work - some (bad) hd disks and pc disks where in the box. some of them makes my drive crazy.
HOT!!
if you have self transfered disk - please post them! ;)
regards
swasti |
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1BM
Registered: Nov 2002
Posts: 48 |
I've managed to transfer most of my little 200 disk collection and actually found some stuff not on csdb (will add more the following days).
so when i see all these packs - who sorts this all out? xfer takes some time, but checking back with csdb, adding info etc. - really lots of work.
and about broken disks: do you guys check them for dirt on surface or are they magnetically defect? (some of my disks were stored in a cellar for ages, 1 of 10 was broken. will try to fix, i guess some have un-csdb-ed stuff on em) |
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E$G
Registered: Dec 2007
Posts: 822 |
@zerozillion: about broken disks
3 main reasons:
1- old 15-23 years old disks are not guaranteed and if they were exposed to light cold/hot places the process of degeneration increase, mushrooms-batceria-magnetical defects increase the loss!
2- traded disks have been hitten hard from postmans, bent, pressed and so on so no way to save the contents
3- some programs from broken floppies were copied in new ones during the tradin' but the source programs doesn't work so the result is a non bumpin' head floppY but not workin' at all as it was in the original.
It's useful to clean the head of the disk drive (better a 1541II)
The procedure I'm using to transfer my huge collection can be found here:
Marauding E$G/IBB pandora's 5 1/4 boxeS!
thX to everyone to share their collection too!
E$G |
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Mace
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 1799 |
My procedure:
- Tools: 1541-II connected with a XAP1541 cable to an MS/DOS PC running StarCommander;
- I regularly clean the drive head with cotton swabs and alcohol (not potable ;) );
- I don't clean the floppies;
- When errors occur I try to do re-reads, but if too many errors remain, I switch to auto-skip.
Easy :) |
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1BM
Registered: Nov 2002
Posts: 48 |
when there is visible dirt on the disc itself and nothing else helps, i cut the sleeve open, clean the disc carefully with soap and medium hot water, carefully dry and put into a new sleeve. it can't get more broken than it already is ;)
at some point i wanted to build a "disc washing" machine, still on my to do list. |
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swasti
Registered: Jul 2007
Posts: 120 |
new stuff....
http://rapidshare.com/files/208675131/swasti_fmb28.rar
and as .nib
http://rapidshare.com/files/208676013/swasti_fmb28_NIB_.rar
@zerozillion: please share the transfered disks here as a full pack - or pm/msg me. |
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Mace
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 1799 |
Transfered with StarCommander, this is the second and last box of the Culemborg collection: Culemborg 2 (15MB).
Why Culemborg?
It's the name of the town where the guy lived who gave this to me :)
The discs had a lot of errors and I often just kicked 'auto skip on error', to speed up the process.
Earthshaker's collection will be transfered using NibTools, to improve quality and speed.
First box will be up soon. |
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troop
Account closed
Registered: Jul 2006
Posts: 10 |
thanks mace & swasti for the new stuff :-)
i have sent my disks to acidchild , will be transferred hopefully soon . another box with 100+ disks on the way too |
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maestro
Registered: Mar 2004
Posts: 723 |
sounds good troop :)
how many disks do you have in total approx for transferr?? |
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swasti
Registered: Jul 2007
Posts: 120 |
here is the first from two packs from charly (a guy here from austria). this disks are ebay buys. there are all transfered disks in - also the complete broken ones and the empty disks.
the second pack will come in some weeks - i have other things todo @ the moment.
charly1-d64
and as nib if someone wants them:
charly1-nib
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Mace
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 1799 |
Who of you guys is using NibTools to transfer? |
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