Red Baron (256-color VGA version)

[Miles]

First of all, props to The Fifth Horseman for pointing me here.

I purchased the Sierra/Dynamix game 'Red Baron' this past Saturday (June 28th) at a thrift store while out of the state for $3.25. When I came back home, I popped the disks into my 486 and as I usually do nowadays, I run them through Norton Utilities' Norton Disk Doctor to check for surface issues (it made a defective Quest for Glory disk come back to life :D). 'Lo and behold, NDD picked up on a slew of bad blocks on both disks and patched them.

So I tried running the Installer, but I got the dreaded 'Abort, Retry or Fail' message. I ran NDD again to see if it missed a sector and I then find out that the File Allocation Table's junk. NDD suggested running Norton Utilities' low-level format utility Calibrate on it, which I did and it still didn't work unfortunately.

So I was wondering if it was possible if I could be provided with disk images of the two installation disks. In return I'll be happy to scan in the maps that came with the game and also provide photographs to Abandonia.

For verification, this is what each disk has on the label:

First label

RED BARON
256 COLOR

MS-DOS / 1.44M
GAME DISK 1
VER#1.0
INT#12.23.90

S\N 826021071523497

Customer Service
(209) 683-8989

Second label

RED BARON
256 COLOR

MS-DOS / 1.44M
GAME DISK 2
VER#1.0
INT#12.23.90

Customer Service
(209) 683-8989

Thanks,
Cy-Fox

[Ermuli]

First disk of my set was readable, but the second one stopped at 95%. :(

[BentleyVA]

First off, is this game abandoned?

Second, would the file on the cd version be the same? I have the sierra originals cd.

[Miles]

I know the 16-color version's been abandoned. I'm however unsure if the Sierra Originals CD version is 256 color or 16. Even if the 256 isn't abandoned, I've shown that I legitimately purchased it and am requesting the material to compensate for a defect.

[The Fifth Horseman]

The game has been at least at one point released as freeware.
As far as my opinion goes, it should be safe.

[Frodo]

The game has been at least at one point released as freeware.
As far as my opinion goes, it should be safe.
If it's freeware, it should be on Reloaded - http://www.reloaded.org/index.php
:)

[_r.u.s.s.]

it's not a remake or unofficial fan made game, it's an original game which after time was released as freeware, it belongs here.

[The Fifth Horseman]

Actually, both here an on Reloaded. :p

[Dave]

Wise decision :laugh: