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607 wrote:Interesting, thanks.
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It's on Dizzy's excellent Adventure Disk I (1992)(Codemasters)[cr Cynix], and after trying a lot of things I found out it works when I put System to 'ST' and use TOS102. Sorry, I'm not great with knowing what configurations I should use for different applications.
AtariZoll wrote:607 wrote:Interesting, thanks.
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It's on Dizzy's excellent Adventure Disk I (1992)(Codemasters)[cr Cynix], and after trying a lot of things I found out it works when I put System to 'ST' and use TOS102. Sorry, I'm not great with knowing what configurations I should use for different applications.
Nobody is great in that. There are many games which just work not well on higher TOS versions. But that must be not fault of original game. Sometimes it is crack which fails on higher TOS version, or on machine with more RAM.
In any case, it would be nice if you could make Pasti (STX) image of your original, and upload it here and/or to Atarimania. There is demand for such images, and we would like that everything published is imaged with proper images of original, before floppies became unreadable.
mlynn1974 wrote:Possibly the reason why there is no dump available is that Code Masters are still very strict on copyright.
I don't think owners of high profile site would host any of their games for this reason. ....
607 wrote:All Dizzy games I've got are probably cracked, is that a problem?
Also: "Requires any ST,STe, Mega ST or Mega STe computer with at least one double sided disk drive." What's a double sided disk drive?
spiny wrote:607 wrote:All Dizzy games I've got are probably cracked, is that a problem?
Also: "Requires any ST,STe, Mega ST or Mega STe computer with at least one double sided disk drive." What's a double sided disk drive?
Early ST machines were shipped with single sided disk drives, which could only read and write to one side of the disk, so were limited to about 400K of storage, like Ataizoll says.
Later ST machines came with double sided drives, and all STe machines came with double sided.
you would probably know if you had a single side drive, they have the 'big wide' eject button, double sided drives have the much smaller eject button.
and unless you are really worried about originality, to 'upgrade' it's siply a case of putting a double sided drive in. (though depending on what drive you use, some adjustments may be needed)
607 wrote:I mean, I knew I was going to have problems, as things like these usually can't go without problems. But they came earlier than I had expected, to be honest.
I formatted a diskette (format /T:80 /N:9 a:) and ran PastiTools.exe. When I click Transfer and then Initialise Transfer Disk, I get the error 'Disk not empty'. But it is. It's as empty as can be, as I formatted it and didn't add anything.
AtariZoll wrote:607 wrote:I mean, I knew I was going to have problems, as things like these usually can't go without problems. But they came earlier than I had expected, to be honest.
I formatted a diskette (format /T:80 /N:9 a:) and ran PastiTools.exe. When I click Transfer and then Initialise Transfer Disk, I get the error 'Disk not empty'. But it is. It's as empty as can be, as I formatted it and didn't add anything.
Did you read what I wrote ? You need first to determine is your floppy drive 1 or 2 sided. The best test for that is that you copy SYSINFO on floppy with PC, and look that can run it on Atari. If not, your drive is likely 1 sided. Then you should try to format it on Atari - where can set 1 or 2 sided - will see what works ...
https://sites.google.com/site/stessential/system-tools/sysinfo
P.S. since it is STE, drive must be 2 sided. Then just format it on Atari as 2 sided, and try Pasti then. It is that with old floppy drives problems appear frequently if you formatted floppy on other drive (PC in your case).
607 wrote:For a while it worked, but then I got an error on my pc saying PART.002 was damaged. What should I do now, if I want to retry? (I should at least get a screenshot of the error, probably) Just delete PART.002 and retry?
AtariZoll wrote:It's just that your 2 floppy drives - 1 in PC, other in Atari, can not read reliable what other drive wrote.
I recommend that you open them and do cleaning - from dust with some small brush. Then clean heads with little alcohol.
If that helps not, drive replacement may be necessary.
607 wrote:Hm, seems plausible. I don't usually have trouble writing, though.
But what I meant right now: what files do I remove from the transfer disk if I want to retry? Of course I could also reformat and then reinitialise, but that'd take quite a bit more time.
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