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First post, by Nexxen

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Hi!

Recently I bought and repaired the box of Master of Magic.
Alas, only 2 out of 7 disks work, all others either won't be read or stop at some point with errors.

In order to experience the real thing I'm looking (legally) for a version of the game that provides actual images of the floppies.
Swapping disks was kinda fun 😀

I have GOG but it installs the game to a directory, no images 🙁

Thanks for any input!

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Reply 1 of 6, by MagefromAntares

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Hi,

Unfortunately I don't think any of the digital download versions contains the original floppy images. I know it is not the original installer feeling, but I think the closest that you can get legally with the online versions is to compress the GOG classic DOS version after installing as a multiple file ARJ archive and extract it on the target computer. (At least there will be still disk swapping 😁)

Unfortunately I don't have my original copy of Master of Magic, and I had to re-buy it from GOG, so I also don't have floppies 🙁

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Reply 2 of 6, by Nexxen

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MagefromAntares wrote on Today, 12:10:

Hi,

Unfortunately I don't think any of the digital download versions contains the original floppy images. I know it is not the original installer feeling, but I think the closest that you can get legally with the online versions is to compress the GOG classic DOS version after installing as a multiple file ARJ archive and extract it on the target computer. (At least there will be still disk swapping 😁)

Unfortunately I don't have my original copy of Master of Magic, and I had to re-buy it from GOG, so I also don't have floppies 🙁

Bummer! I hoped some lesser known online seller had it.
Well, at least we can still play the game. Happy about that 😀

Too bad images aren't included as goodies.

Thanks

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PC#2 PIII-1Ghz - 98SE/W2K

- "One hates the specialty unobtainium parts, the other laughs in greed listing them under a ridiculous price" - kotel studios
- Bare metal ist krieg.

Reply 3 of 6, by Garrett W

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Check out archive.org.

Reply 4 of 6, by Nexxen

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Garrett W wrote on Today, 14:22:

Check out archive.org.

"legally" 😉

PC#1 Pentium 233 MMX - 98SE
PC#2 PIII-1Ghz - 98SE/W2K

- "One hates the specialty unobtainium parts, the other laughs in greed listing them under a ridiculous price" - kotel studios
- Bare metal ist krieg.

Reply 5 of 6, by Shagittarius

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Here are .PAR files. You can download multipar and use that utility to recover the corrupted data from your floppies.

The process works like this:

1. Copy as much data as you can choosing to (I)gnore read issues to a location on your HD per DISK.
2. Put the .PAR files I have provided in the folders with the disk information. I think you'll have to extract them from the archives I created.
3. Use the Multipar tool to rebuild unbroken versions of you files you copied from the disks, then you can put the recovered versions back on formatted disks, either the originals or some new ones.

I haven't used these files or the new Multipar tool in quite some time but you can probably suss your way through it. This is totally legal as the files I am providing wont give anyone the ability to run the software, only the ability to repair files you already have.

Give it a try and let me know if it works for you.

The attachment Master_of_Magic_PAR2.rar is no longer available

Multipar: https://github.com/Yutaka-Sawada/MultiPar/releases

Reply 6 of 6, by Garrett W

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Nexxen wrote on Today, 15:36:
Garrett W wrote on Today, 14:22:

Check out archive.org.

"legally" 😉

OP has a boxed copy of the game. They also have purchased at least one digital distribution of the game. As far as I can tell they want to create new floppy disks to replace the faulty ones on their copy.
Who cares?