14 Jan
2014
14 Jan
'14
11:38 a.m.
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 11:39:18AM +0100, rachael at telefisk.org wrote:
On Tue, 14 Jan 2014, Peter Corlett wrote:
> As you know, I've recently discovered TOSEC and have been hoovering up the
> media they've been archiving. At least on the Amiga side, the file formats
> are completely open: one ZIP file per image, with the contents being a raw
> disk dump in the case of floppies (aka "ADF"), and a CUE file plus the raw
> ISO-9660 filesystem and uncompressed WAV files for CD-ROM media.
is worth to remember that adf or dms only work with
standart formats,
anything using none standart syncmarks, track lenghts, includes errors cant
be stored in those formats, they are only good for things where the
protection has been removed.
I don't think I have *any* copy-protected Amiga software. Partly because I was
much more interested in demos and productivity software, and it was only really
games that were copy-protected, but mainly myself and my circle of friends were
all skint teenagers, and original media was a rare and wondrous thing.
Besides, TOSEC seems to be less an archiving project and more a thin veneer of
respectability over a retro games piracy operation, and the majority of its
Amiga archive appears to be cracked games or games that never had protection.