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First post, by _Roffe_

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Iam installing a lot of my BIG BOX games on a dos machine, and i have ran in to trouble with many of the games has corrupt files or just one file..
This game i came all the way to floppy 4, the last one.. I cant read any of the 2 files resource.000 and resource.004, both from floppy 4 of 4.
Pleas if someone had those file for me to replace!

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Reply 3 of 21, by keropi

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damn, checked my disks I have the 1.023 version... maybe an EU/US thing?
my copy was bought in Greece back then

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Reply 7 of 21, by keropi

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So what's the deal with 1.033 ? Fixed bugs?
Can't the damaged files be retrieved from the other floppy format since the game came with both 3.5" and 5.25" media?

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Reply 8 of 21, by root42

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Yes, 1.033 fixed some bugs related to the score I think.

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Reply 9 of 21, by _Roffe_

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I dont have a 5.25drive at the moment..
My guess is, as this is file .004 on floppy 4, 001 is floppy 1 and so on. Maybe the files on the 5.25 is split different?
Someone knows? 😀

Reply 10 of 21, by collector

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The resource files were split into smaller sizes for the 5.25 diskettes and spanned across more diskettes. This required a different map file as well.

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Reply 12 of 21, by _Roffe_

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Thanks krcroft for yor mail, but i cant answer as iam a new member, kind of annoying 😀
I dont know how to get a md5sums from that file as iam not able to read it.
But my file size should be:
resource.000 26 989kb
resource.004 670 883kb

Reply 14 of 21, by keropi

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wrong post

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Reply 15 of 21, by root42

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_Roffe_ wrote:

And thanks to you to roo42! Cant answer the mails as iam a new member 😀
My guess is that those files where from the 1.023 version? Wrong size.

Sorry, I guess that's the only version I have.

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Reply 17 of 21, by krcroft

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_Roffe_ wrote:
Thanks krcroft for yor mail, but i cant answer as iam a new member, kind of annoying :) I dont know how to get a md5sums from th […]
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Thanks krcroft for yor mail, but i cant answer as iam a new member, kind of annoying 😀
I dont know how to get a md5sums from that file as iam not able to read it.
But my file size should be:
resource.000 26 989kb
resource.004 670 883kb

Understood; I was thinking we could compare the md5sums for any of the resource files that are still readable on your floppies. Maybe you can read 000 through 003?

Reply 18 of 21, by collector

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If the map file on disk 1 is identical then the resource files would most likely be the same, however if any between versions are different sizes there is little point in comparing the hash.

Have you tried Roadkil's Unstoppable Copier? I have had decent luck with it in the past. http://www.roadkil.net/program.php?ProgramID=29

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