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First post, by King_Corduroy

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Hello guys, as the title said I'm looking for some images of the floppy diskettes (or at least the files on them) so that I can repair my original diskettes that came with the copies of the games that I own. I don't know if this is allowed because I know some people here are totally against pirating software but just to let those people know that indeed I own the real copies of the games here is a picture of them both on my desk in front of my black C64c I just pictured in another post:

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So I figured some members here probably own full physical copies and this would probably be the best bet at getting the files necessary to repair these diskettes or at least make backups that I could use to install them onto my old computers. To be extra clear I need either images of the diskettes for Gateway and X-Wing OR the files that the disks contained segmented into folders for each disk. If someone has these please help, I would love to be able to play these on my old computers again.

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Reply 1 of 15, by ODwilly

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I will have to wait until I get home, but I may have a buddy who has either just the CD version of X-Wing or both the CD and floppy version of X-Wing who lives near me. If so I can go ahead and make an image for you. If he only has the CD version would you still be interested in an image of that?

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Reply 2 of 15, by King_Corduroy

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ODwilly wrote:

I will have to wait until I get home, but I may have a buddy who has either just the CD version of X-Wing or both the CD and floppy version of X-Wing who lives near me. If so I can go ahead and make an image for you. If he only has the CD version would you still be interested in an image of that?

That would be amazing, but is Gateway THAT rare? No one seems to have images of the diskettes. 😒

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Reply 4 of 15, by King_Corduroy

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keropi wrote:

^ noone? nah... 😁

Heh, it would seem two do now. 🤣

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Reply 5 of 15, by collector

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I don't think anyone here will object as long as nothing is publicly posted. We have all occasionally had that bad disk. Unfortunately, I don't have either of those. Wasn't there someone here years ago that had started setting up a site with PAR like files for game disks? That would have been very helpful for cases like this. Of course if a disk is completely unreadable I not sure how this would work if there is nothing for the PAR to work against. Are the disks completely unreadable or are there just corrupt files on the disks? If the latter, have you tried anything like Roadkil's Unstoppable copier or some other data recovery program?

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Reply 6 of 15, by PhilsComputerLab

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Can you still see the directory? Then just grab the files form the usual "archive" sources?

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Reply 7 of 15, by collector

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That would be a pretty iffy way of doing it. No way of telling what if any of those files have been hacked, cracked, spindled or mutilated. More importantly there may well be version differences. If large files have been split across disks you must have exact matches for concatenating those files. Besides, if he has the original disks he will want pristine copies, if not images. Bit then, that is the archivist in me talking.

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Reply 8 of 15, by ODwilly

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No luck on my buddy having x-wing sorry 🙁 he said he gave his copy away a few years back.

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Reply 9 of 15, by PhilsComputerLab

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collector wrote:

That would be a pretty iffy way of doing it. No way of telling what if any of those files have been hacked, cracked, spindled or mutilated. More importantly there may well be version differences. If large files have been split across disks you must have exact matches for concatenating those files. Besides, if he has the original disks he will want pristine copies, if not images. Bit then, that is the archivist in me talking.

Well I'm just thinking if a few files are corrupt, you can just replace them.

Hacked and cracked are usually just the executables. The data files / assets should be intact.

Version numbers of games can also be checked.

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Reply 10 of 15, by Jorpho

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collector wrote:

Wasn't there someone here years ago that had started setting up a site with PAR like files for game disks? That would have been very helpful for cases like this.

That was GameRez.ORG is Live. , but the site was taken down due to lack of interest, according to Star Wars Tie Fighter: bad floppy disk set... .

Reply 11 of 15, by King_Corduroy

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ODwilly wrote:

No luck on my buddy having x-wing sorry 🙁 he said he gave his copy away a few years back.

That's ok Keropi really came through for me. 😁

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Reply 12 of 15, by collector

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Jorpho wrote:
collector wrote:

Wasn't there someone here years ago that had started setting up a site with PAR like files for game disks? That would have been very helpful for cases like this.

That was GameRez.ORG is Live. , but the site was taken down due to lack of interest, according to Star Wars Tie Fighter: bad floppy disk set... .

There are a few disk archival projects around. The Software Preservation Society focuses on Amiga disks, but there are a few others. The PAR project could go well with an archive project. It looks like Shagittarius is still around, at least as of July 30. There are probably ways to overcome some of the problems he had, especially if it worked in partnership with the archival projects. Even so, it may be something that you can't look at as a high traffic site with an active community.

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Reply 13 of 15, by Iris030380

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I have both original disk images. Do you still need them?

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Reply 14 of 15, by King_Corduroy

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Yeah if you have direct rips, the other ones I got were not original. They were downloaded off something else so they didn't fit on a real diskette because whoever packaged it added extra files. At least that's how it was in the case of X-Wing. However if you have both gateway and Xwing I'll take both. 🤣

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Reply 15 of 15, by thierry

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King_Corduroy wrote:

Yeah if you have direct rips, the other ones I got were not original. They were downloaded off something else so they didn't fit on a real diskette because whoever packaged it added extra files. At least that's how it was in the case of X-Wing. However if you have both gateway and Xwing I'll take both. 🤣

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20/08/2009 10:18 p.m. 440 X-Wing copy protection codes.txt
14/03/2013 06:26 p.m. 1.228.800 X-Wing 5.25 Disk 1.IMA
14/03/2013 06:26 p.m. 1.228.800 X-Wing 5.25 Disk 2.IMA
14/03/2013 06:26 p.m. 1.228.800 X-Wing 5.25 Disk 3.IMA
14/03/2013 06:26 p.m. 1.228.800 X-Wing 5.25 Disk 4.IMA
14/03/2013 06:26 p.m. 1.228.800 X-Wing 5.25 Disk 5.IMA
14/03/2013 06:26 p.m. 1.228.800 X-Wing 5.25 Disk 6.IMA
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