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Old 28-07-2008, 01:05 PM   #1
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Default Red Baron (256-color VGA version)

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 ). '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
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