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E$G
Registered: Dec 2007
Posts: 841 |
Marauding E$G/IBB pandora's 5 1/4 boxeS!
A long time ago I started to collect 64 progs&demos. THEY have been part of my life together with Amiga of an underworld full of friendship/wars/jealousy/pleasure & happyness a rush to be fast, to collect more & more, to be always updated, to prove your skill.
I did it full time, in multitaskin' (due to harware limitation I have many computers & drivers!). Then I slow down as the productions and the scene was goin' to disappear.
All the stuff I collected heap of 5 1/4 disks is still there!
I don't know if the bits&bytes survived the time.
After have spent part of my life readin' scrolls, hearin' nice tunez as many friends I've found here did, I never dropped the love for this machine.
So many asked me if I had some of my old disks, that's true all are there I suppose among 10000-15000! Many offered to convert the whole bunch but due to massive weight the sending costs in europe will be too high.
After many request, email, chat & so on I decided to proceed on my own.
This means slooooow conversion but who cares it's not a matter of time just a matter to have them all!
As I told you I traded a lot from 1985-1992, got contact with people met on magazines, scene and so on, then from '92 to '95 I got 'em mainly from boardz.
Today I have ordered the XM1541 cable, not fast for sure but the free space on my desk&house is very limitated so this was the startin' solution I will buy for sure a 1541 Ultimate in the future.
According to the lil' time I have, my daughter (3 and half years old) takes most of time, in the late evening I will start to transfer the disks.
I hope to receive soon the cable, I hope that 1541 chips will work, I hope to set all correctly. According to this I try to do something in febraury and I hope on the IDES of MARCH to share something! Great expectations.
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Since I'm a beginner in the conversions even if I had collected progs & tools it would be nice to avoid errors or bad converions to know exactly what program to use in XP, if there are some fast/easy/useful tools to create a text file of the contents of the d64 images (like the one we find in SWASTI pack) let me know the name.
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When the archives will be created I wish to share it zipped or rared on rapidshare service, I own a premium account there but if I'm not wrong in the past there where some problems. Let me know and maybe I will try to share it on other services.
Last words ... don't expect so much most of stuff is already out expecially the one of big cracks name, among the disks I will have for sure double, triple, n-ple disks exactly the same (maybe just the name in the bam change), I have usually left the disks in raw format, come as they got it, when I spread 'em I usually changed SPREAD by E$G/IBB or add some dirs. Maybe, since I traded with many americans, you will find some educational or utility not here or in collections or minor groups cracks.
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If it will find useful I can put in the notes (if written on the envelope who sent me the disks) i.e. Twilight of TRIAD. I won't waste time adding notes about singular traders with no handle or group i.e. Peter from WIESBADEN - GERMANY
That's all folks ... stay tuned next months for more infos & some sharing ....
Enrico a.k.a. E$G of Italian Bad Boys
ps I wish to greet all my contacts & friends, all the ones shared their archives or updated the CSDb but overall those people who pushed me to start the conversions or offered themselves to do it!
Acidchild
rambones
MdZ
tmb
Freddie
Skylab
Acidchild
swasti
The Overkiller
Mustaine
iAN CooG
Mason
cba
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Marauder/GSS
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Registered: Jul 2006
Posts: 224 |
Quote:
...due to ntfs partition and dos tool as Star Commander I'm using right now cbm4win.
...Star Commander has got this function but since it must be used in pure dos with an hd formatted with FAT 32 due to my personal HW configuration and other use of my pc I can't use it.
why not just add an extra fat/fat32 partition and boot with a dos-disk?? works fine for me.... |
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E$G
Registered: Dec 2007
Posts: 841 |
Quote: Quote:
...due to ntfs partition and dos tool as Star Commander I'm using right now cbm4win.
...Star Commander has got this function but since it must be used in pure dos with an hd formatted with FAT 32 due to my personal HW configuration and other use of my pc I can't use it.
why not just add an extra fat/fat32 partition and boot with a dos-disk?? works fine for me....
I don't have a 3 1/2 drive into pc and I have to use the pc under xp for other activities too. Maybe a virtual machine like VMWARE will work with dos under xp system. We have to verify with Mason if it could be possible.
I've other 2 pc but they have no parallel port and due to low free space in my house I have no place for 64 (1541 Ultimate or other solutions will be better & faster too). thanx anyway
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Frantic
Registered: Mar 2003
Posts: 1648 |
You can use an old Windows95/98 cd to boot into DOS I think. (...and combine that with a small FAT partition, in order to be able to save stuff when being in DOS mode). |
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sailor
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 90 |
I haven't tried, but would it be possible to boot from a USB-stick(some motherboards support this) and run xfer-program from it/save images onto it ?
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Skylab
Registered: Dec 2005
Posts: 183 |
Enrico I am using another PC (real hardware no vm) with a fat32 formatted harddisk which I connect after transferring to my normal PC using a external USB-Box. I boot the second machine with a CD called Ultimate Boot CD, where I can choose between some bootdisks. Works perfect. You can also boot from an usb-stick, but that depends on your motherboard. And the reason why I am using another machine is quite simple, so I can do other things while transferring.
Seems that a 1541-II does a better job than other drives. Using 100% Isopropanol to clean heads. If the heads are spinning and spinning and you can't get a disk read anymore you can also try to insert that white transportation piece. Another good hint is to format a disk.
Enrico learning by doing... Waiting for your packages...
Greetz!
Sascha |
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E$G
Registered: Dec 2007
Posts: 841 |
@ Skylab & others thanX for advice but the main problem is that even if I boot the system or use a floppy reader (that doesn't fit into the case) that I can buy is concerning the use of the pc (mainly to download or browsin' around). Too bad I have other 2 pc but they are without parallel port on mother board and I don't trust so much in hardware added in main board to have a parallel port.
Using ultimate boot you can boot in dos but you can have 2 operating system at the same time? Never heard be4. But if I fully understand your statement "so I can do other things while transferring" should be possible. It also see USB hd?
Maybe i will ask you the .bat & config of your system and I'm not even sure to have the dos disks around!!
About 1541-II I luckily still have 2 in good condition and 2 1541 the head spinning is probably due to old or bad disks, only statistic during the transfers can tell more about it.
Last I'm not into Star Commander proj and I don't know if it's still in progress I wonder if it's possible to ask an update workin' under xp in dos mode?
Have a nice day .... Enrico/E$G
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Frantic
Registered: Mar 2003
Posts: 1648 |
Anyone tried running Starcommander in DOSBOX or some dos emu like that? Might work if the PC is fast enough?
Anyway, I'd get myself a working Warpcopy setup if I was to transfer loads of disks. Then there is no problems whatsoever in doing other things while transfers are in progress of course.
Other people seem to have gotten starcommander working reasonably under win XP:
http://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15630 |
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E$G
Registered: Dec 2007
Posts: 841 |
Here we go package no.1 is released, right now all my transfers are stopped waitin' for some news about transferring under XP or dos mode, I hope we will fix soon the problem. This transfer is made with opencbm it will probably redone with Star Commander.
The notes are about who supplied, errors contains the broken sides, 2 different content lists were generated.
Enjoy ...
http://rapidshare.com/files/192849850/esg-ibbpack01.zip
E$G - ex Italian Bad Boys |
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Skylab
Registered: Dec 2005
Posts: 183 |
I wouldn't trust a multitasking machine 100%. If you use it on the same machine you will definitily start doing other things and then you will see murphy's law comes up and some of the transfers getting messed up...
I will stay using only a dos machine and starcommander. For me it seems to be the best combination. And I hope all others don't use it under XP or something else...
Greetz!
Sascha |
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E$G
Registered: Dec 2007
Posts: 841 |
@ Skylab
yep only Amiga can handle 100% multitask!
so you can provide me if you want the image of the floppy boot including the OS (dos 6.22). I will get a floppy reader.
It would be great also to know if you can see an USB external disk that i will format with FAT32. Or at least i will try to partition the disk with a fat 32 (the xp utility says i can only format NTFS maybe I will use partition magic or others)
thanx
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