(Sorry for the duplicate message to you, Jim, didn't realize you had replied
in private.)
- Original Message -
From: C.E. Forman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Jim Leonard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 2:28 PM
Subject: Re: [SWCollect] Repairing floppies (long)
Yes
Games enjoy a particular virtue in that their data is digital and can be
copied exactly 'till the end of time (to a point, but that's another
story about nibble counts and the like). So even if you made an exact
copy of the game, using the same data on the same media, has it retained
its
C.E. Forman wrote:
It is a little depressing to me personally that adventure, strategy, and
wargaming genres are the only genres that seem to be collectable. I guess
it's just traditional supply and demand...
I dunno, I've seen quite a few early Apple II arcade games fetch huge bids.
Star Blazer
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Jim Leonard wrote:
[snip]
I should have clarified IBM PC action games. If anyone has ever heard
of an older IBM PC non-adventure non-strategy game ever fetching more
than $30 I would love to hear about it.
An IBM version of Microsoft Decathlon is easily worth more than
I should have clarified IBM PC action games. If anyone has ever heard
of an older IBM PC non-adventure non-strategy game ever fetching more
than $30 I would love to hear about it.
An IBM version of Microsoft Decathlon is easily worth more than $30.
That's Microsoft's ONLY action game of
C.E. Forman stated:
Is it okay to rewrite a collectible disk? I personally would say yes, but
the last time I was in Europe one of my German collector friends insisted
no, that would devalue it in his mind. He even went so far as to say he'd
prefer a non-functional but unrewritten disk to a
Dan Chisarick wrote:
- Would you fix a damaged box (say with a magic marker or even
meticulous work with paper and adhesive) and regain its value? Even if
the materials were from another original box?
If you mean literally cutting and pasting, no. But it is very common to make
a complete
(hopefully this information will be useful to those of us who have bad
diskettes in their collection and want to give a shot at repairing them)
In further reply to Stuart, to recover truly broken disks (not
copy-protected), it depends on how bad the damage is. Some bad disks
are caused
This is neat info. Would you mind if I quoted it somewhere on oldskool.org
(giving you full attribution, of course)?
Dan Chisarick wrote:
Obligatory Apple plug -
I've done very similar things w/Apple disks. Most copy-protected Apple
disks use very basic format protection (they change the
