Hi all,
some of you may remember that I have for the longest time trying to gather all games
available from the "Microdrive era"
(slavaging mine and buying stuff off eBay) and convert them to QLAY mdv format for
preservation... Yesterday however I
hit a brick wall (Not Wolfgang's "WALL" ;-) ) that I will need some help to recover
from ;-) Specifically while I was
transferring games from their cartridges to disk (mdv file) 10 (!!!!!!) of my
cartridges died... :-( (The irony of the thing is
when I was trying to run the games to see if the cartridges were still good I did
salvage a lot of them thanks to the "format
ramx_mdvx" command, but the second time around when I was trying to copy them the
tapes either were too brittle to
survive a second run, or the tape got mangled inside the cartridge -or- the spring
sponge gave up the spirit and scratched
the tape... The mangled tapes i tried to salvage but I was only successful on one
(Imagine) the rest are dead :-(( )
Anyway, below is the list of what I have so far and which ones I couldn't save... If
someone can send me zipped images of
the cartridges it would be appreciated.. I prefer the original protected form (that's
the whole point of this anyway) but in
lieu of not getting something at all I wouldn't have problems with "unprotected" ones
Everything with an asterisk "*" I am still looking for
Games Current List
Game # Mdvs Status
S. Davis Snooker 1 OK
Imagine 2 OK
Eidersoft Karate 1 Dead Cartridge
Eidersoft Citadel 1 Dead Cartridge
PSION Chess 1 Dead Cartridge
PSION Matchpoint 1 Dead Cartridge
Lands of Havoc 1 OK
Medic Metro 1 Dead Cartridge
Hyperdrive 1 Dead Cartridge
Bounder 1 OK
Quboids 1 Dead Cartridge (Maybe
salvagable)
Spook 1 *
Backgammon 1 OK
Reversi 1 OK
Double Dominoes 1 OK
Zapper/Eagle 1 OK (Also PD, Received
permission by J.M.Fl?gel 6 years ago)
Pawn 2 Dead Cartridge (Have
it but not in original form ie.. as Zip
adventure)
Cuthbert in Space 1 Dead Cartridge (which
I misplaced somewhere so *)
BJ's return 1 *
Towers of Hanoi 1 Salvageable but didn't save it
yet
Josiah Oobadiah 1 OK
Arkanoid 1 *
Text Adventure 2 OK
QL Flight 1 Dead Cartridge
Zkul 2 OK
West 2 OK
Also here's a partial list of my mdv software
Name #of mdvs Status
--------------------------------- -------------------
-------------------------------------------------
Psion Suite 4 OK - Saved in several
versions (incl. US version)
QL Gardener 2 * (I have it in Greece
I am sure)
Q-Monix 3 OK
Computer 1 Pascal 2 OK but can't find the
ROM :-(
Eidersoft ICE Toolkit 1 Dead Cartridge
ICE 1+Rom OK
EyeQ 1 OK
DP Collection Too many! OK (Bought it years
ago in Disk form ;-)
DB-Easy 1 OK (Bill demonstrated it
running under PC-Four as well!!!!!)
Archdev 1 OK
Sandy CP/Mulator 2 + ROM Have the ROM not the software
Gas Model Simulator 1 Dead Cartridge
....etc..
Phoebus
