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Offline Crashdisk

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Re: Crashdisk WiP
« Reply #15 on: March 05, 2012, 05:37:40 PM »
New WiP in my FTP folder:
Commodore Amiga - Coverdisks - [ADF] (TOSEC-v2012-03-05_CM).dat

finished work (Check, Rename, Fix, Add, Move and ... Remove)
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- Amiga Action (GB)
 - Amiga Concept (FR)
 - Amiga Down Under (NZ)
 - Amiga Dream (FR)
 - Amiga Games Disc & Mag (DE)
 - Amiga Joker (DE)
 - Amiga+ (US)
 - Amiga Shopper (GB)
 - AmigaByte (IT)
 - AmigaMagazine (IT)
 - AmigoTimes (CA)
 - Games-X (GB)
 - New Computer Express (GB)
 - OZ Amiga (AU)
 - The One (GB)
 - Zero (GB)

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Re: Crashdisk WiP
« Reply #16 on: March 05, 2012, 08:36:01 PM »
good job. :)

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Re: Crashdisk WiP
« Reply #17 on: March 07, 2012, 06:16:48 PM »
Seconded.... good stuff.

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Re: Crashdisk WiP
« Reply #18 on: March 10, 2012, 12:36:17 PM »
Thanks ^^

Now, other WiP posted:
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- AC's Tech for the Commodore Amiga (US)
- Amiga Mania (GB)
- Amiga Power (GB)
- Compute!'s Amiga Resource (US)
- Public Domain (GB)
- ST Amiga Format (GB)
in progress:
- Amiga Format (GB)

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Re: Crashdisk WiP
« Reply #19 on: March 11, 2012, 09:19:04 PM »
Other day, other WiP (+73kb !!)

Commodore Amiga - Coverdisks - [ADF] (TOSEC-v2012-03-11_CM)
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- Amiga Format (GB)

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Re: Crashdisk WiP
« Reply #20 on: March 27, 2012, 06:19:51 PM »
in progress :
 - Commodore Amiga - Coverdisks => CU Amiga
 - DMS Analyzer (it does not do much for now...)

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Re: Crashdisk WiP
« Reply #21 on: March 28, 2012, 11:21:07 AM »
Nice, what's DMS Analyzer for those that know nothing about the subject?  ;D

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Re: Crashdisk WiP
« Reply #22 on: March 28, 2012, 01:31:51 PM »
Yes indeed...  ;D

DMS format is the best known on AMIGA to compress image of a disk.
But this format has several problems in addition to the damage of time (scratched CD, failed hard drive, bad transfers ...).

So I wrote a program for testing, decompress and repair DMS files :

For the moment :
 - Decoding the header (overall and track)
 - Checksum16 (U.CRC)
 - CRC16 (D.CRC)
 - Simple (RLE), Quick and Medium unpacking algo (unpack in memory for the moment)
 - Repairing a faulty byte (the routine is written but not yet implemented  and very slow)

I started two weeks ago to learn a new language ... work in progress  ;)
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Re: Crashdisk WiP
« Reply #23 on: March 29, 2012, 12:29:04 AM »
Seems great! What language are you learning?

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Re: Crashdisk WiP
« Reply #24 on: March 29, 2012, 03:30:19 AM »
This is written entirely in PureBasic (but it is only new for me ;D)

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Re: Crashdisk WiP
« Reply #25 on: April 06, 2012, 09:53:49 PM »
Yes! I finished writing this damn Deep mode (Lempel Ziv Huffman)
I still have to write the last heavy mode 1 and 2   :-S

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Re: Crashdisk WiP
« Reply #26 on: April 10, 2012, 06:19:49 PM »
other WiP (+29kb !!)

Commodore Amiga - Coverdisks - [ADF] (TOSEC-v2012-04-10_CM)
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- CU Amiga (GB)

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Re: Crashdisk WiP
« Reply #27 on: April 17, 2012, 12:13:20 AM »
Small issue....

In your latest 'Commodore Amiga - Coverdisks - [ADF] (TOSEC-v2012-04-10_CM)' DAT you're missing SHA-1 hashes. Remember all DATs now need CRC32, MD5 and SHA-1 so remember to enable it in your DAT creator.

I have some ClrMamePro Dat2Dir templates here if that's what you use:
http://www.redsplinter.com/tosec/TOSEC%20(multi%20files).d2d
http://www.redsplinter.com/tosec/TOSEC%20(single%20files).d2d
though you will still need to manually copy&paste (then update) the header.

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Re: Crashdisk WiP
« Reply #28 on: April 17, 2012, 01:53:49 PM »
Hi Cassiel,
it's done and updated in my folder. Thank you for your "Ready to Go" template ;-)

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Re: Crashdisk WiP
« Reply #29 on: April 17, 2012, 01:56:25 PM »
Merci...  :)