[game_preservation] AJP and Guru Decapping Project

[Devin Monnens]

Hello Istvan - great to see you posting this to the list!

This is pretty cool! So if I have already dumped my Amiga disks using the
old serial cable method (which took something like 10 minutes per disk),
will this give archival backups that SPS likes to have? I just have .adf
versions of everything.

Now if you are interested, I can send some copies of the Amiga Software of
the Month Club .adf files - I think these are distributable if you just want
to take a look at the content. There are some very interesting independent
games on some of these disks along with some .mods from the demo scene. ASMC
was a US group of Amiga enthusiasts - I only inherited these from a
professor at Cleveland State University (did not get the Amiga though b/c it
was kind of expensive for an undergrad). I hope simply playing them did not
alter the data...

Lastly, does this hardware work with Famicom disks? I suspect because they
are magnetic disk media that they might require a system such as this (I'm
not sure what that says about current community backups). Also on the Gray
Hat side is this interesting program for viewing/modifying .fds files:
http://www.romhacking.net/utils/662/

-Devin

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 5:00 PM, István Fábián <if at caps-project.org> wrote:


>  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjfT-F0GUl4

>

> ----- Original Message -----

> *From:* István Fábián <if at caps-project.org>

> *To:* IGDA Game Preservation SIG <game_preservation at igda.org>

> *Sent:* Monday, February 15, 2010 11:55 PM

> *Subject:* Re: [game_preservation] AJP and Guru Decapping Project

>

> ...and here is the first public beta:

> http://www.softpres.org/news:2010-02-15

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjfT-F0GUl4

> http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=50936

> http://twitter.com/softpres

>

> Cheers,

> István

>

> ----- Original Message -----

> *From:* Jan Baart <jan_baart at yahoo.de>

> *To:* IGDA Game Preservation SIG <game_preservation at igda.org>

> *Sent:* Wednesday, December 09, 2009 5:20 PM

> *Subject:* Re: [game_preservation] AJP and Guru Decapping Project

>

> Quite interesting, hadn't seen that yet, thanks!

>

> While we're at it though, here's another recent low-level preservation

> approach by the guys from the Software Preservation Society.

>

> http://www.softpres.org/doku.php?id=glossary:kryoflux

>

> On 24.11.2009 23:46, Devin Monnens wrote:

>

> The American Journal of Play's Fall issue is now out, which features the

> IGDA White Paper on Game Preservation! I was so glad to get a copy in the

> mail!

>

> In addition, I don't think this is listed on the IGDA Projects, but the

> MAME guys are working on low-level backups of arcade boards. They are using

> high-res digital images to manually backup an arcade rom (costs about $200

> per chip). This is done to bypass security software that prevents

> traditional data backups. This is really neat as they have detailed

> documentation for why the techniques were chosen. In addition, it is some

> concrete documentation on how much it costs to accurately back up an arcade

> game.

>

> http://guru.mameworld.info/decap/index.html

>

> --

> Devin Monnens

> www.deserthat.com

>

> The sleep of Reason produces monsters.

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