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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Gaming => Topic started by: elpiloto on February 19, 2007, 10:21:36 PM

Title: .ipf to disk, and disk to .ipf
Post by: elpiloto on February 19, 2007, 10:21:36 PM

is there any tool that can deal with ipf files and send them to disks? .ipf to disk, and disk to .ipf?

cheers
Hernan

Title: Re: .ipf to disk, and disk to .ipf
Post by: Piru on February 19, 2007, 10:29:05 PM

No

Title: Re: .ipf to disk, and disk to .ipf
Post by: Bazzaq on February 19, 2007, 10:37:02 PM

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Piru wrote:
No

LOL.... straight to the point..

Title: Re: .ipf to disk, and disk to .ipf
Post by: TjLaZer on February 19, 2007, 10:50:17 PM

Pretty much sums it up for ya in "Piru" style!!  ;)

Title: Re: .ipf to disk, and disk to .ipf
Post by: Piru on February 19, 2007, 10:53:07 PM

details here (http://www.softpres.org/knowledge_base)

Title: Re: .ipf to disk, and disk to .ipf
Post by: TjLaZer on February 19, 2007, 10:56:25 PM

I really do wish there was a way to write them back as I would gladly backup all my originals.  What I do now is use SuperCard Ami II to make a backup or use parameter copiers to crack it and make a ADF out of it.

Title: Re: .ipf to disk, and disk to .ipf
Post by: buzz on February 21, 2007, 05:33:36 AM

Well, not 100% true. For example, if a game has tracks which can physically be written back on an amiga drive, then you could use mfm2wwarp/wwarp (from whdload page) to write the disk back.

Of course, I'm not sure how many games fit that category. Not many I would think. You can write Rob Northern tracks with Wwarp if you have the SYBIL hardware (but who does?).

Something like Shadow of the Beast 1, you can write back all but the "protection" track.

I just tested with Bart vs the Space mutants, and was able to write the first disk back ok for example.

Title: Re: .ipf to disk, and disk to .ipf
Post by: omnicron10 on February 21, 2007, 08:07:41 AM

How do you make an .ipf disk?  I have the original beta and source disks from the Amiga version of Neuromancer from Interplay for the Amiga and would like to make exact backups for historical reasons.  I also have all the playtesters letters and notes.  Pretty much the whole folder from when interplay closed shopped a few years ago.  A friend knew I was an amiga fan and gave me the file folder.

Title: Re: .ipf to disk, and disk to .ipf
Post by: buzz on February 21, 2007, 08:29:26 AM

You have to send a warped disk image (with raw mfm datas ) or so to the sps/caps guys. Unfortunately although the idea of their project is to preserve the data, they have a whole bunch of "excuses" why they don't release the specifications and ipf library sources.

They should just admit "we just don't want to share our source". Until the specification is open, and the sources are available, the future/usefulness of this "preservation" is limited.

http://www.softpres.org/faq:general:open_source

Title: Re: .ipf to disk, and disk to .ipf
Post by: InTheSand on February 21, 2007, 09:07:16 AM

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omnicron10 wrote:
I have the original beta and source disks from the Amiga version of Neuromancer from Interplay for the Amiga and would like to make exact backups for historical reasons.

Have you tried the revised version of transdisk - rawread (http://aminet.net/package/disk/bakup/rawread)?

This at least has a chance of preserving what you've got...

 - Ali