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PostPosted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 4:25 pm    Post subject: Check out what i bought this morning.... Reply with quote

I went to the local swap meet this morning and picked up 19 boxed Amiga games (pretty much all in perfect condition) all for $5!

heres the list of games

1. Hired Guns
2. Kings Quest V
3. Comic Setter
4. TV Sports: Football
5. Champions (4 games in 1)
6. Syndicate
7. NAM
8. Space Hulk
9. Innocent until Caught
10. Corporation
11. Mean Streets
12. Tower of Babel
13. kick Boxing
14. Crack Down
15. Bio Challenge
16. Robocop 2
17. PGA Tour Golf
18. Interceptor
19. KIN

heres a couple of pics:





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PostPosted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 8:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nice haul but what's KIN?
If I'm spotting the box correctly it appears to be another one of those ECP games and so you may have found a completely MIA game!

Could you doublecheck the name please.
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 8:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Belgarath wrote:
Nice haul but what's KIN?
If I'm spotting the box correctly it appears to be another one of those ECP games and so you may have found a completely MIA game!

Could you doublecheck the name please.


heres a better photo for you, i did a search in google and i found nothing on this game... hmm has anybody heard of it?



oh by the way, it is an ECP game and the white sticker reads "Australia's First 3 Dimensional Computer Game"


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PostPosted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 10:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well done you've found yet another ECP game we've never heard of!

Preservation is now the name of game!

Have you got a scanner and the means to dump the disk?
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 12:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Belgarath wrote:
Well done you've found yet another ECP game we've never heard of!

Preservation is now the name of game!

Have you got a scanner and the means to dump the disk?


I willl make a cover scan tonight and post it to the downloads / coverscans section.

as for dumping the disk i havent done it before but now sounds like a good time to start = ) did you want me to send you a copy???
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 11:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wow! Thats a bargain for you! Wow!
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 1:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes please, a dump of the disk would be great and as far as I know most ECP games have no ondisk copy protection so it shouldn't be be any problem to make one.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 8:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sorry guys, i just got my brand new laptop yesterday so i spent all night setting it up, copying over files and installing programs etc.. so i didnt get to scan the cover or look at copying the disk image, will hopefully look at doing it tonight though = )
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

okay heres a link for the cover scan, i havent been able to get the disk image as yet but will work on it as soon as i get the time.

http://www.retrobrad.org/phpBB2/images/other/KIN_image_1.jpg
http://www.retrobrad.org/phpBB2/images/other/KIN_image_2.jpg

(i had to split the image up into two because it didnt fit in the scanner)

anyone know how to get the disk image onto a PC?


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PostPosted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 8:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ta for them, but they're both a bit blurry down one side, if it's not too much trouble could you do them again, one of the front, and one of the spine and back and this time weigh them down with something because they've obviously not laid completely flat on the scanner which is why it's got blurry bits.

As for ami/pc transferring check out the faqs over at abime.net
http://wiki.abime.net/amiga:file_transfer
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 12:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Belgarath wrote:
Ta for them, but they're both a bit blurry down one side, if it's not too much trouble could you do them again, one of the front, and one of the spine and back and this time weigh them down with something because they've obviously not laid completely flat on the scanner which is why it's got blurry bits.

As for ami/pc transferring check out the faqs over at abime.net
http://wiki.abime.net/amiga:file_transfer


yeah sorry about that! i scanned these at about 11pm and was pretty tired Smile

ill do them again when i get home from work (all good and proper)

thanks for the link, will have to check it out and hopefully will be able to do something by this weekend.

(will post the pics back here again tonight)


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PostPosted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 10:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

okay a BIG sorry again, ive just got home from work (its nearly 11pm) and i am very, very tired! i DEFINATELY will get the scan done tomorrow though.

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 12:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Np worries m8, whenever you've got time

Just keep that disk in a safe environment, we don't want it getting corrupt before it's dumped!
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 7:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

okay here ya go, these scans should be alot better.

http://www.retrobrad.org/phpBB2/images/other/Amiga_kin_front_and_spine.jpg
http://www.retrobrad.org/phpBB2/images/other/Amiga_kin_back.jpg

oh by the way some bad news... i tried to copy the disk and had a read error on track 66!!!! it nearly finished copying but its got some problems... how can i fix this? on that note is there any way of fixing a disk???

id really love for this game to work!!!


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 11:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The scans are great, cheers m8.

As for the disk...That's a real pity, if it's truly corrupt then there's not much you can do..

The best thing to try to start off with is known as the spin and blow trick which has saved disks for me on a few occaisons.

Just push back the metal shutter and gently blow on the surface of the disk, use your thumb on the metal central bit to rotate the disk as you carry on blowing, remember to do both sides.

This can get rid of any loose dust/dirt that may be causing the read error, after you've done that, try dumping the disk again and hopefully this time it will work.

Good Luck!
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