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Sorex
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Registered: Nov 2003
Posts: 43 |
preserving stuff
Hello,
Got 2 weeks leave so I thought of going through my boxes.
Apparently I still have a pile of
tape originals
disk originals
zapp tapes
your commodore tapes
commodore format tapes
plain turbo tapes
are all those Zapp/YC/CF tapes already available somewhere?
or what should I do to make a dump of it onto PC ?
is anybody interested in that stuff anyway ? :)
(some had rare soft on it)
Same goes for the other (real) originals (not sure what still works tho)
My old 386-DX40 also got rescued from a pile of dust and will get connected this week which contains a lot of disks that got filtered & sorted and contains some demo's that are not available here yet so I might upload those soon.
The only bad part is that such old machine doesn't have a network card nor USB ports so I might need to use some parallel transfer soft to move over all data or maybe I should plug the ide drive into my other machine or buy an ide>usb convertor somewhere, I guess I will figure out that part. |
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chancer
Registered: Apr 2003
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I use an ANCIENT laptop to port stuff across, but have a USB pen drive + ubuntu linux (the light version) so it can see it.
as long as you have a floppy drive on both machines you could do it without much hassle I guess.. although it'll be time consuming.
you'll need an x-cable to port the stuff across (there are many different sorts) , either buy one or make one.. tapes and disks maybe a bit of an issue due to the loaders etc.
http://sta.c64.org/xcables.html
will be of help =)
happy Christmas
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Sorex
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I have an X1541 or XE/XH1541 for my 1571, can't recall which one exactly as I made it more than a decade ago.
I also found my 1531 with "attach-to-pc" cable attached but that's useless for the originals I guess, only good for plain Turbo Tape tapes.
Not sure what I need for that MTAP stuff or are there newer things to record/clean those files? |
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Sorex
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small update...
I seem to have lost my collection as it is not on the old machine nor on the Qic80 tapes, it's probably on that partially damaged CD (reflect paint was peeling off) but it was not on the place where it used to be so I have to look for that one.
Besides that I copied all data from the HD to my other desktop, erased it on the old one, so I have 650Mb free space for D64's again, but my 1571 acts weird with SC probably a bad beta so I need to update it first before I can xfer everything here.
The tape cable is broken on the pc side, well the connector is simply missing, but I couldn't find the lpt64 dox on that machine anymore to fix it, will dig the net for it. |
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Jazzcat
Registered: Feb 2002
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Sorex: all the ZZAP!64 tapes are converted already, available on my site at: http://mags.c64.org/ under the ZZAP tab at the top.
Would dearly love the others though.
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Mason
Registered: Dec 2001
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Well for the disk originals I know gb64 and C64 Preservation would like to get a copy.
The tapes community likes to get new tap-dumps.
and I guess you know I love disks with old cracks on :) |
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Sorex
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Registered: Nov 2003
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JC: thanks for the link!
Just had a look at issue 1, man people must've been drooling when seeing all those titles inthere.
There is even 1 game in there that's not on CSDB nor GB64,
it's 911TS from Elite, never heard of it myself.
Mason: I'll transfer everything I have here when I get Star Commander to work properly (probably in a few hours)
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chancer
Registered: Apr 2003
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911 TS I heard of , I mean I was a speccy owner also and I just looked and it didn't get a great review on that.. I only remember it due to the advert. Maybe the car maker wasn't happy about it's name being used and it got pulled. Just an idea.
I mean a lot of car makers allowed their cars to be used as graphics in games, BUT on the condition they weren't shown crashing properly.
although the game engine they used DOES look a look a lot like the one they used for another elite game, grand national.
just different graphics.
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Trurl
Registered: Mar 2002
Posts: 61 |
By 911TS you mean something other than 911 Tiger Shark? |
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DemongerX
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Registered: Jun 2002
Posts: 137 |
For transferring disks, I've also used Omniflop for the PC, when my 1581 was freaking out on some disk errors. It supposedly will support both 3.5 as well as 5.25" disk formats, and is compatible with a wide variety of 8 and 16 bit disk formats. If you have an old enough pc to have a 5.25" floppy drive, it should work for that if you need it.
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