"RNC" stands for "Rob Northen Compression", it was a format used to distribute some PC games. I believe it was mostly used on Amiga games and to compress graphics for games on other platforms. Some of the games distributed on this format use a form of copy protection called "Copylock". It requires …

So, after some time I have learned some information about Tornado. That release on the picture of the first post is a release from a Singapore based company TELAHIN. The disks are the same as the european release 1.0. Meanwhile I bought the original european release (v1.0), the DS addon (v1.0D), the …

rasz_pl wrote on 2023-06-27, 12:58: do they match SHA256 I posted? Yes, they are the same. Have you these files, or a link to them?

rasz_pl wrote on 2023-06-27, 12:58: Hiuuz wrote on 2023-06-27, 11:35: But with WinImage I could restore the INSTALL.EXE, TORNADO2.RNC, and TORNADO3.RNC. do they match SHA256 I posted? I am already at work but tomorrow I will check it! Thanks!

I saw a video earlier where a guy cleaned the disk itself, but the result was worse than before. I hope that my will be a success :) No offence but it doesn't look like you know what you are doing. This is no "restoration" of any kind, you have been trying to copy the files - from disks you …

So some progress happend. I cleaned the disks but for normal windows copying not helped. But with WinImage I could restore the INSTALL.EXE, TORNADO2.RNC, and TORNADO3.RNC. An other https://www.roadkil.net/program.php?ProgramID=29 I found, saved the files with both. An interesting sidenote for file …

Many Thanks Guys! I could made some progress. First I cleaned the reader head of my FDD and now it can read all 3 disc, but the copy still not working. I saw a video earlier where a guy cleaned the disk itself, but the result was worse than before. I hope that my will be a success :) https://i.ibb. …

Hi all! Has anyone experience with restoring data from unreadable floppy disks? I got this gem today, but my drive cannot read them. At the first attempt, the first disk could be readed but copying was impossible. The second attempt was a already failure. I could try read them on an other FDD and …

So, after some more deep searching, I found that the problem is not from the memory side, but some coding issues from the original software, Tornado itself. Here you can find 3 old third party patches for Tornado what solves the problem: https://web.archive.org/web/20180819164000/http://www. …

After digging a few hour on forums, it is possible that the 640k memory limit is my problem. There is a file "SBLASTER.BIN" in one of the folders what is 24832 byte. The "ADLIB.BIN" is only 4424 byte. Any suggest on memory saving?

Hi all! There is an issue with Soundblaster in DI Tornado. If I go to fly, it seems that the game set back to Adlib. You can hear it on the engine sound like this: https://youtu.be/_35EU234VP4 I found one video where you can hear the SB sound: https://youtu.be/dzpd4lbfOo0?t=83 I wonder about has …

frankiekam wrote on 2019-03-12, 23:38: Hi Everyone If somebody interested,I found an other copy of the 332 page manual with better scan quality: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Pxttiw93Si0D … iew?usp=sharing