like never
some of us have upload/download limits 🙁

Well you could copy them to CDRs or make images and put them on DVDRs (whatever) and mail them to me. I don't know what it'd cost to ship to me from your UK stronghold. 😀 I would be happy to upload them.

Hmm, you really want these don't you
give us a link to an upload site and I'll sort something out

swaaye wrote:

Well you could copy them to CDRs or make images and put them on DVDRs (whatever) and mail them to me. I don't know what it'd cost to ship to me from your UK stronghold. 😀 I would be happy to upload them.

Hehehe...that's a good idea! 😁

Yeah, make bin/cue of them all and put the images on a hard drive or something, I'm sure someone here would be willing to pay for the drive and the shipping.

(note to all, please don't use iso, much data gets missed, especially on older stuff!)

on a side note, I really need the carmageddon 2 1.2 patch, as it's just not available on the net anymore... only copy I found was corrupted.

What gets lost with the ISO format? None of my disks have CD audio so that's not lost. None of them are any of the special disk types. You can be sure that if they had CD audio that I would go CUE/BIN. ISO seems like the natural way to go with a pure data disk. I actually just let IMGBURN pick the image format.

At one point with ImgBurn I had read some '98 CGW cover cds to .iso (for personal archival, also they're not as interesting as PCgamer discs), some demo installers were mysteriously lost

carmageddon2 1.2 patch

http://dlh.net/cgi-bin/dlp.cgi?lang=eng&sys=p … 12us.zip&ref=ps

Thanks for the patch link! =]

well I use bin/cue for nearly everything, then I am sure any hidden data (which can be there) is not lost. Just because a cd doesn't have audio tracks, doesn't mean the old protections didn't use sneaky tricks to hide stuff, hehe.

But yeah pure data discs , iso should be fine.

I so miss ftp.cdrom.com 🙁 very hard to find patches and doom wads etc these days... anyone know of a mirror (full) of the old site?

http://www.patches-scrolls.de/
very very useful site for old game patches

Thanks to Davros, I've added:
3 Computer Shopper CDs
1 Personal Computer World Interactive CD
1 ZD Gamer's Collection CD (98)

I didn't know Computer Shopper had discs.

I wonder how many were crushed by the actual book though 😁

They crushed my wardrobe, thats why I got rid of the magazines

This thread deserves to be stickyfied.

Just been looking for a driver disk and I came across PCW cover cd's for May 96 and December 96, and Computer Shopper March 96. I expect I can copy them but uploading is probably beyond me.

Also these for Mac:

MacFormat Dec95, xmas95, Mar96, Jul96, Nov96, Dec97

MacAction Jan96, Feb96, Mar96

The Mac Apr96, Aug96, Jan97

These might be more problematic if I need to copy them on my old Mac, though I daresay there will be some way.

ratfink: reading mac CDs on a windows PC should not be a problem, cause there are software that can read the mac format too.

What filesystem do CDROMs use on Mac systems? My CDROM Today CDs that have both PC & Mac software are plain ol ISO9660.

I know I am in deep shit, but I actually believe mac CDs back then had another file system that the usual stuff. But I could actually be very wrong, but why I am saying this, is because I think I have mixed the 3DO´s (the console) Opera File System info with my very poor knowledge of a mac.

I don't know much about Macs either but CDROMs follow standards. For filesystems, ISO 9660 is from the '80s and it has been super popular since forever. Some use Joliet (MS made it) which is an extension of 9660. Apparently Apple came up with their own extension too but it's still readable by PCs.

Wikipedia seems to have lots of info about this stuff.

Consoles usually come up with their own thing so PCs can't extract the data easily.

I've added:

PC Pro, 2x PCW Interactive, PC Direct