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[ibmpc5160]

Curse of the Azure Bonds is uploaded.

http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/31...ure+Bonds.html

I've downloaded it.
But Disk Image of Disk 1 / Disk 3 seems to be bad dumped or dumped incompletely.

http://www.abandonia.com/files/extra...DiskImages.zip

This must be redumped! (Disk 1 and Disk 3)

[Smiling Spectre]

Checked with WinImage. Files can be read, seems normal, and I can re-save whole disk. What's the problem, ibmpc5160, and how can I check it?

[ibmpc5160]

Originally Posted by Smiling Spectre

Checked with WinImage. Files can be read, seems normal, and I can re-save whole disk. What's the problem, ibmpc5160, and how can I check it?

If you can dump Disk 1 and Disk 3 by DCOPY.EXE or Teledisk from original disk, thanks.

Only disk 1 and disk 3 are different from my copied disk.

WINIMAGE is simple, but if any sector has error, Winimage seems to ignore the track which include bad sectors.

But if you can dump by WINIMAGE, can you dump it again?

[Smiling Spectre]

Sorry for being too vague. I doesn't have real disks. I mounted existing Abandonia images and tried to read this virtual floppy with WinImage, that's all. If you say that WinImage skips errors even with real disks, obviously, it's impossible to detect anything with the virtual ones.

Well, I have another source of such disks, but I fear it could have the same problem too, as they seemingly dumped with the same WinImage. I will send them to you anyway.

Also, I am asking again: what's the difference between "proper" and "improper" copies? Where must I look to see the problem?

[ibmpc5160]

Originally Posted by Smiling Spectre

Sorry for being too vague. I doesn't have real disks. I mounted existing Abandonia images and tried to read this virtual floppy with WinImage, that's all. If you say that WinImage skips errors even with real disks, obviously, it's impossible to detect anything with the virtual ones.

Well, I have another source of such disks, but I fear it could have the same problem too, as they seemingly dumped with the same WinImage. I will send them to you anyway.

Also, I am asking again: what's the difference between "proper" and "improper" copies? Where must I look to see the problem?

I also have copied disk of Curse of Azure bond.
I compared my disks with uploaded one.
Disk 1 and Disk 3 are different from each other.
If you have another dumped one, can you upload it?

[Smiling Spectre]

I have both 1.1 and 1.2. But it seems, you have them too. I haven't other 1.0, unfortunately.

After some research I found though that this (Abandonia) disks are attributed to Geezer (I hate you, Abandonia database!). His last activity recorded year ago, and his last forum post is at 2012 though. But try to contact him maybe?

[Ermuli]

I got also the original European 5.25" disks, but no working drive atm.

[ibmpc5160]

Originally Posted by Ermuli

I got also the original European 5.25" disks, but no working drive atm.

European version must be 1.1 but Boot Sector and Root Area is different from US version 1.1

I have the following Curse of the Azure Bond package. (All 5.25")

Version 1.1 (US) -- Boot ID : IBM PNCI
Version 1.1 (UK) -- Boot ID : IBM 4.0
Version 1.2 (US) -- Boot ID : IBM PNCI

This is from copied disk.

Version 1.0 (US?) -- Boot ID : IBM PNCI
(My Disk 1 and 3 are different from this site)

But My Disk 1 is also modified too.

The best dump tool is DCOPY.EXE or TELEDISK.EXE (No recommend WINIMAGE)

[Haseebmmk]

nice