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Mason
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 461 |
Looking for more disks/d64s?
Been a while since we asked around for more disks and d64s, so I think I would repeat the request.
We are looking for more disks or contact with people who already transferred their disks. We are trying to find more stuff from any kind of releases (cracks, demos, mags etc.). Our main goal is to preserve all the releases from the past.
We can also help transferring the disks if you got them yourself. We borrow the disks, transfer them and return them to the owner with a digital copy (on cd/dvd)
Also if you are in contact with other people who got disks with stuff, then we would be happy if you could help us getting in contact with them.
Contact cba, acidchild, mdz or me if you can help. |
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Acidchild
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 476 |
i can only second this, send all your disks, you get them back, transfered. send'em now! |
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Mace
Registered: May 2002
Posts: 1799 |
People in The Netherlands can contact me.
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CenTraX
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Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 117 |
Polish people - mozecie sie zglaszac do mnie. Przerzuce kazda ilosc dyskow :) byle nie przesadzac :P |
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Trazan
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Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 620 |
Whatever Centrax said...I think! |
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The Phantom
Registered: Jan 2004
Posts: 360 |
Fascinating..
Been a while since i posted anything worthy, this seems a good time.
I have roughly 26,000+ files for the c64. Some are d64, t64 or even .prg. Uhm, roughly about 2 gigs of "crap" i've collected over the years. I started organizing them at one time, but lost interest.
Hit me up @ eyehateidiots@nospam.yahoo.com
And please, MAKE SURE you put "C64 file collection" In the subject, otherwise, I probably won't read it. I'm a bit anal that way, if I don't know who's sending me the email, I typically spam it. I'll start zipping the collection... |
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Rough
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Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 1829 |
you'Re calling this behaviour "anal"? Then I'm anal too. haha |
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Impaler
Registered: Sep 2007
Posts: 11 |
I started diggin through my disks a few days ago. So far i haven't found terrible much but at least a few bits and pieces that are not in the database here.
Mostly some crax and diskmags from my ex-groups and a few old music-demos from maw and other quirky old 80's demos.
As soon as i'm finished i'll send my disks to Acidchild!
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Acidchild
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 476 |
that's good news, impaler! |
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Style
Registered: Jun 2004
Posts: 498 |
I really need to fix my XMP1541. |
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null
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Registered: Jun 2006
Posts: 645 |
I got lots of cracks that are not on CSDb yet... I already looked through half my disks, and picked out the stuff I like.. (i.e. barely any cracks, as that's not interesting for me...) :_) mace.. we gotta find a way to get those disks to you :_)
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Knoeki/DigitalSoundsSystem/GheyMaidInc/SwappersWithAttitude
http://hardwarehacks.untergrund.net/zomgwtfbbq/index.php |
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Style
Registered: Jun 2004
Posts: 498 |
I think I have lotsa stuff not here. eg, the other day I pulled a random disk out of a box and it was Oxygen Music Rips #5 and #6. |
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Conrad
Registered: Nov 2006
Posts: 849 |
I've got quite a bunch of UK stuff from 198?-1990 which are not on here yet.
Recently I put a large amount of them on CSDB the last couple of days, by this I've managed to complete scanning all disks in one large box, leaving me another 3 large boxes to go. (1 large box = ~200 disks)
Group-wise, I believe I have some wares from the following UK groups:
- Scouse Cracking Group
- Ikari
- Doughnut Cracking Service
- Cleveland Cracking Service
- Pyrotech
- New Formula Crew
- ... and many other unknown/small groups.
I also have a couple demos make by Raistlin/G*P which are not on here yet.
Some time in the future I'll take some time out to put these on csdb, unless someone does it before me ;) |
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Mason
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 461 |
Quote: I've got quite a bunch of UK stuff from 198?-1990 which are not on here yet.
Recently I put a large amount of them on CSDB the last couple of days, by this I've managed to complete scanning all disks in one large box, leaving me another 3 large boxes to go. (1 large box = ~200 disks)
Group-wise, I believe I have some wares from the following UK groups:
- Scouse Cracking Group
- Ikari
- Doughnut Cracking Service
- Cleveland Cracking Service
- Pyrotech
- New Formula Crew
- ... and many other unknown/small groups.
I also have a couple demos make by Raistlin/G*P which are not on here yet.
Some time in the future I'll take some time out to put these on csdb, unless someone does it before me ;)
Thanks for the great uploads here. Releases from the UK groups are hard to find.
Many of the groups lived their own life in UK and didnt have much contact outside UK. |
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Rough
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Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 1829 |
and sold their stuff to lamers.. 8) |
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Mason
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 461 |
Not all of them did. I think its more a question of finding them. |
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Rough
Account closed
Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 1829 |
na, i mean instead of swapping with other countries they sold pirated software to local people back then (non-Brits did as well of course) |
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Conrad
Registered: Nov 2006
Posts: 849 |
You are both absolutely right. Most unknown UK crackers did seem to be isolated when they cracked games. afaik there were also a couple from Ireland which nobody have heard of.
Take Pyrotech for example, most of their cracks are those shitty SEUCK games, even though they seem to have pride in cracking them back then, hense their very nice looking intro before it.
Quote:and sold their stuff to lamers.. 8)
Hey, that also makes my father a lamer as the guy who sold him the disks at a bootsale (which I have now had for the past 17 years) was a swapper of some unknown group. :D |
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Mason
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 461 |
Back in 88/89 there was no problems for normal groups to release SEUCK games, but it changed afterwards.
Also with your uploads people can see that Pyrotech did other releases than SEUCK games. |
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The Phantom
Registered: Jan 2004
Posts: 360 |
I made a "magnet" torrent of the collection. 1.53gb total filesize. If someone wants me to upload it somewhere let me know via email or even post it here (i'll be back in 4 more hours).
Or you can use the "magnet", paste it in yer browser and open the torrent to download the file from me.
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:LWXVMN4WIDYCFAVZWRCNSV5YGO5UHKBA |
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chancer
Registered: Apr 2003
Posts: 347 |
Quote: Thanks for the great uploads here. Releases from the UK groups are hard to find.
Many of the groups lived their own life in UK and didnt have much contact outside UK.
It's not even that, I'll give you a prime example..
Lethargy by cosine.. help was given from moren & derbyram to try to get the demo to a lot of people, both cool guys who I counted as good friends and helped me out even though they didn't have to. (I think both get a mention in the demo)
It was nice though knowing people from many countries, regardless.
If you didn't have a modem it was tricky to be connected with people.There are a lot of demos and things I really need to sort out for here, so be patient =). |
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Mason
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 461 |
Thats true, but alot of the UK cracking groups in the 80s didnt care for anything outside UK except the BBS' where they had to put their first releases. |
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chancer
Registered: Apr 2003
Posts: 347 |
yep mason, but part of that was due to the UK having a good amount of software houses. Maybe I'm wrong but maybe because they were uk based, they had a slight time advantage over release dates of things as apposed to europe.
some of it was group politics also, I'd send something to someone and ofcouse they would rather send on disks with their own groups contents,which maybe not as new.
A lot of it though was, well the majority of games were coming from either the UK or US though, yes companies like rainbow arts etc were releasing things, just that a lot of the major things were either coming from UK or the US. Or maybe thats UK bias for ya, I dunno.
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Rough
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Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 1829 |
a sidenote: SEUCK games releasing was always considered lame, maybe there's a small plus point for those who got released as budget commercial games. (yes, such things exist) |
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Mason
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 461 |
Quote: yep mason, but part of that was due to the UK having a good amount of software houses. Maybe I'm wrong but maybe because they were uk based, they had a slight time advantage over release dates of things as apposed to europe.
some of it was group politics also, I'd send something to someone and ofcouse they would rather send on disks with their own groups contents,which maybe not as new.
A lot of it though was, well the majority of games were coming from either the UK or US though, yes companies like rainbow arts etc were releasing things, just that a lot of the major things were either coming from UK or the US. Or maybe thats UK bias for ya, I dunno.
Yeah most software house were in UK. There was a few ones in Germany, Denmark etc., but the leading place for games were UK.
Also the one about sending out own stuff is right too, but there were groups who only had a few contacts outside UK.
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maestro
Registered: Mar 2004
Posts: 727 |
i'd just like to add to this topic
if anyone in the uk or anywhere else would like me to transferr there disk collection i'd be happy to do that and like mason said above......you get your disks back with the digital copies on cd/dvd depending on how large the collection is
cheers
maestro |
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DemongerX
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Registered: Jun 2002
Posts: 137 |
I'm not sure if this link will help or not, but last year prior to ECCC in Chicago, I made .d64 images of my demo collection and gave out cd's with it at the expo. The majority of the demos were ntsc ones, with many early ones that I'd d/l'ed from US Demo boards in the 80's and 90's, and many PAL demos/mags towards the end of the catalogging of disks. Elwix was glad to get them as he has been trying to catalog the NTSC demos from various groups over the last couple of years, and many of the demos were on my disks just as I'd delynxed/unzipped/unlibraried them from days gone by, his focus on these is to keep the names intact as much as possible. He posted them on Drivenonline.org. Here's the link(hopefully it works fine, if not let me know and I'll try to send them along here.)
http://drivenonline.org/archive/cbm/collections/demonger/ |
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Mason
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 461 |
Thanks for posting. We can use all productions done on the C64, no matter if its PAL, NTSC or works on both systems.
Point is to preserve everything thats possible.
Also Im happy to see some US sceners with transferred stuff. Alot of stuff is needed from the NTSC scene - demos, tools, cracks (without euro imports) and imports.
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mendrake
Registered: Aug 2004
Posts: 8 |
I've tons of real old school stuff, such as Defender, Gyroscope, Moonshuttle etc. from the early 80's. Only problem to solve here is, they got ages ago packed together on CDs in 1581 format, means .d81 extension. No problem for any emulator to dissolve the file and view it, but I haven't got a clue, how to depack them to single files again.
As I can't get hold of the mate who did the files a couple years ago, I can only offer these files on our FTP Site, The Dragon's Tower (ftp://ftp.acrise.net) with direct link:
ftp://ftp.acrise.net/pub/c64/request/
Regards, mendrake |
