Bought Nebulus from eBay, not working

[MarkAshley]

Hi all

I bought a couply of Nebulus from eBay which arrived this morning. See here for the auction:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8226244648&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWN%3AIT&rd=1

Despite the auction page stating that it works 100%, when I put it in my floppy drive I hear the most awful grinding sound and the disk is unreadable. When I took it out it had two small marks on the shutter, so I'm guessing it is unable to open it hence the noise. Other disks work fine.

I have no particular desire to boot the game from floppy. I bought this copy so I could install it to my hard disk with WHDLoad.

If I remove the shutter, do you think the disk will work? I only need to read it once with WHDLoad! Or if someone already has it installed and could email me the WHDLoad drawer for the game, that would be even better (see the auction link above for proof I bought it :-) )

Thanks
Mark

[keropi]

PM sent

[Lando]

Nothing to do with your problem really but I notice that same seller is also selling Wrestlemania for the Commodore Amiga on TAPE, which he also claims works 100%! - quite how he managed to get an Amiga to load this for testing isn't clear.

[huronking]

I'd imagine to get a 16-bit game to load at 110 Baud he
probably started in 1991 and just played the first round in
time to sell it on eBay.

Seriously- that has to be a mistake. Nobody was still making
cassette games in 1991, and since every amiga has a 3.5" floppy there were never any made for it.

Mike KT4QF

[orange]

aha! but maybe he was refering to video tape backup system? :-D

[InTheSand]

huronking wrote:
Nobody was still making cassette games in 1991

Maybe not in the US, but in the UK, I'm sure the last dregs of ZX Spectrum and C64 cassette games were still just about around, or at least were still for sale...

Crash and Your Sinclair (Spectrum magazines) survived until at least 1992, complete with cover-mounted cassettes - aimed at the kiddie market.

Most semi-serious UK users (myself included) had left the 8-bits towards the end of the eighties though.

 - Ali