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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: gouranga on January 12, 2007, 07:41:54 PM

Title: Diskdoctor ADF & Go 64
Post by: gouranga on January 12, 2007, 07:41:54 PM

Hi,

Got a few A500 software issues:

Diskdoctor:

Got some old Amiga disks giving me an error message to use Diskdoctor to repair the disk structure.  

Does any1 know where to find this programm?  My old disk is not longer working.  I still have diskcraft, but I have no idea how to use this?  Is this a similar prog?


Go64:

Got this programm working fine, but I have no idea to get a game up and running.

Is there any possibility to write C64 roms to an A500 disk or to A500 RAM?  Can I use the A500 disk drive anyway?


Kind regards

Gouranga

Title: Re: Diskdoctor ADF & Go 64
Post by: odin on January 12, 2007, 07:51:53 PM

Diskdoctor was a useless CLI command included with OS1.x. Using that you had as much chance saving a corrupted disk as by putting it into a microwave.

Disksalv on the other hand might be of some use, it's on aminet.

Title: Re: Diskdoctor ADF & Go 64
Post by: A5000 on January 12, 2007, 07:58:32 PM

Yeah stay away from disk doctor.... Event he folks at Commodore did not use this... very bad.... I think it was nicknamed disk distructor

Title: Re: Diskdoctor ADF & Go 64
Post by: bigdan on January 12, 2007, 08:00:48 PM

Same thing that Odin : Disksalv rules ! Forget diskdoctor now...

Title: Re: Diskdoctor ADF & Go 64
Post by: InTheSand on January 12, 2007, 08:39:57 PM

Ah, the joys of disks named "Lazarus"! :-)

Agreed, DiskDoctor is pretty useless... Though I do remember using it a couple of times with limited success back in the 1.x days, way before I had any sort of Internet access or knew of DiskSalv...

 - Ali

Title: Re: Diskdoctor ADF & Go 64
Post by: A4000_Mad on January 12, 2007, 08:52:46 PM

I've only ever found 'QuarterBack Tools' to be of any help to floppy disks. You can set it to scan both reads/writes and it puts a file on the disk called 'bad.blocks'. The Amiga knows not to try to use those blocks again. You may get a small reduction in the capacity of the disk of course  :-)

 :eek:


A4000 Mad

Title: Re: Diskdoctor ADF & Go 64
Post by: Piru on January 12, 2007, 09:54:21 PM

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The Demise of the DiskDoctor:

The story I was told goes something like this. The software folks were not quite sure whether DiskDoctor should be dumped or improved, so they decided to leave it up to DiskDoctor itself. They put the DiskDoctor source on an old floppy, then ran DiskDoctor on it. As often happened, DiskDoctor damaged this undamaged disk. So, while it's often said that DiskDoctor was "sued for malpractice", it's more correct to state that DiskDoctor committed suicide.

(Dave Haynie in DiskSalv manual)

Always makes me smile :-)