Replace !Boot with the following obey file: Load via the ADFFS Filer "Boot floppy" option !Run, add "Dir ADFS::0.$" as the 1st lineĢ. !Run, add "ADFForceVSync 2" as the 1st line NOTE: Complete !Run replacement scripts are available in the !ADFFS.obey ZIP archive. This is a massive task and will need to be performed with a mixture of emulation and physical kit.ġ - Protection wheel (eg The Legend of the Lost Temple)Ģ - General unformatted track (eg The Last Ninja)ģ - General sector CRC error (eg Air Supremacy)ġ0 - Peter Gillett ZFiler module 1.0 (eg Chock Away Extra Missions)ġ1 - Variation on X Lock (9) (eg Wolfenstein)ġ3 - Variation on Gordon J.Key (18) (The Dungeon)ġ7 - Martin Piper Protection_Module 3.12 (eg Formula Two Thousand)ġ9 - Variation on Protector (15) (eg Cataclysm) (JA - DONE) For (5) / (7) testing of every game will need to be performed on all hardware variations and OS versions. 1772 emulation is available to assist with this.ġ0. (JA - DONE) A conversion utility for all existing ADF / APD (and possibly other known formats: IPF, FDI) into the standard defined in (3). (JA - DONE) General !Boot / !Run patching instructions / scripts for all existing APD / ADF's that require itĩ. (JA - DONE) A maintained list of games, the Acorn Gaming Database is a very good starting point. (JA - DONE) Collation of screen shots (native res PNG), cover art (300 DPI JPG), instructions etc for (3) / (7) and agreement to use where appropriate.ħ. A lot of this work has already been done in !GameOn, !GameOn2 and StrongGuard, if the source is available and agreement to use reached.Ħ. (JA - DONE) Debugging and coming up with patches for games so they work on newer kit: Drop Ship, Gribbly, The Dungeon, Gods, Magic Pockets, Sensible Soccer, Zarch. Where CRC errors occur, this should be noted in the resulting disc image sector header and the data returned stored in the sector.Ī variety of disc protection methods are known and documented, where they are detected the app can use a template as the starting point - provided the sectors passed to it match what's in the template.ĥ. The user should be able to modify this list, before the app finally uses it to read the disc sector by sector and builds a file based on (3) above. It should then read the Disc sig from the disc and attempt to fill in the gaps. of bytes read from sector and any error returned by ADFS. (JA - DONE) A front-end is required for disc capture, it will be passed a list of sectors by ADFFS, containing the following information: 1st 4 bytes of the Disc Sig (Log2secsize, secspertrack, heads, density), no. The wrapper file could be an IFF style or ZIP for flexibility.Ĥ. These files will be wrapped into one file and deflated with ZLib. SOURCE\version - ASCII file containing the game version (optional) SOURCE\instruct - ASCII file containing the game instructions (optional) SOURCE\history - ASCII file containing the game history (optional) SOURCE\desc - ASCII file containing the game description (optional) SOURCE\changelog - ASCII file containing the disc image version changes (optional) snap1.png being the game menu screen, snap2.png being in-play and snap3+ relevant additional screenshots PROTECTION\PNG, ASCII files containing code wheels or protection codes (optional) PATCHES\Patches for modern kit/RISC OS - format to be decided (optional) The manual, competition cards, key map etc. MATERIAL\Documents that come with the game in PDF or JPG. ICON\containing a !Sprites RISC OS file and a Windows Icon file (JA - DONE) Define a new standard for storing disc images, with an expandable directory structure containing the following:ĪRT\BOX\JPG files of box scans (optional)ĪRT\COVER\PNG file of cover art (optional), max 256x256ĪRT\MARKET\JPG files of marketing material (optional)ĬHEATS\Cheat files - format to be decided (optional)ĭISCS\Disc images, Fxxxxx01.jfd being disc 1 (JA - DONE) *RMFaster needs recoding to fail silently when a module is already in RAMģ. (JA - DONE) MemAlloc module needs re-writing so it's 32-bit safeĢ. If you fancy picking up a task, let me know:ġ. Help wanted.if you'd like to get involved in this software preservation project, the following tasks have yet to be done. So.in frustration, I wrote a FileCore file system to open them. the first time in 22 years! I soon realised that there was no software available to mount ADF floppy images, without writing them to floppy, or modifying the files first. Message #119561, posted by sirbod at 18:32, The Icon Bar: General: ADF floppy disc image reader
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