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IIRC are my cracked versions reset. See the link above.

Cracked and working original disks: https://archive.org/details/@cs_stuttgart?query=lyrae

Some people had the idea to make the printer number configurable in FujiNet's web UI (losing the possibility to do real printing to that device no.).

This was not meant as a real question but to make fun of a US scanner for which A4 is too big when A4 is smaller than legal.

I can't believe that he has no clue of any of the platforms.

Perhaps we should add this information to our disk dumping guide on a8preservation.com to make it easier for people who want to contribute.

This is exactly what it does.

😕 Errm, there is only one form feed character; and that's the one of the printer. So if you can print from one computer, you can print from any computer.

But this should no longer be IK but become Galactic Karate.

And now you posted it in the right one but without any further message.

Sorry to rant but why don't its parser just ignore unexpected tags? And why does the developer not immediately pick up this small issue and add that feature to the parser? Obviously the tool is actively developed.

Oh and there's a copy/paste error: .tracesio Toggle SIO call tracing Logs calls to the operating system's Serial Input/Output (CIO) facility.

Tools -> Keyboard Shortcuts...

Tadaa, @ijor's new conversion works well. No bad sectors, correct data in all sectors and still working copy protection (track 3 has 21 sectors). Syngraph-Preproduction-Soulbuster-Clean.atx

Or saying it in @tschak909's words: "it's better to be useful, than fast."

Status update: Sector 16 fixed with same sector from release because surrounding data is 1:1 identical Sector 30 is one of DOS' buffers which makes it basically irrelevant. Fixed as well with matching sector from release. => Main menu is complete Sector 358 fixed by "transposing" the BASIC variable numbers from the released version. (Fortunately the program code is identical.) => Scatter plot is complete Sectors 617 and 621 (pie chart) are tough because here the code differs between the prototype and the released version. With a lot of luck I find code which makes sense and fits exactly into the holes of 128 bytes each. This would bring the needed confidence that it really is a repair and not only a hack. But for today I'm done.

This is nice but (probably) independent from this particular dump. A8SP already has a good dump of the program but it differs a bit from SoulBuster's prototype and I use it as a basis in my try to repair.

The 4 are identical to the old dump, the 5th is worse because the extra phantom sector is a bad detection of the track's end. Therefore just keep the original dump from 2021. I will try to repair the bad sectors. Working more on the dump yesterday revealed three more bad sectors which make the program crash the menu tools "scatter plot" and "pie chart".

Can you please redump the Graph disk? I finally found the time to try to crack it and am puzzled about two bad sectors which are being loaded but not copy protection. Both these sectors lead to the same error code which is one at least unusual for bitrotten sectors. One of these sectors is not really relevant because it gets overwritten shortly after, but the second one stays in memory. A comparison of RAM dumps with the final release shows that a big area surrounding this one sector to be identical, which is an indicator for a bitrotten sector. Moreso the fact that a disassembly of the memory area shows correct code for the final release and more or less garbage for the pre-release.

ad 1: Use the search Luke; it's here to search stuff (and finds it with one simple word: clrscr) and can be found on every AtariAge page close to the top right corner. ad 2: Try yourself. You've got the needed development pipeline.

The difference between Guinness Book of Records and nothing like this?

Haha, did the US ditch their "legal" format which is slightly bigger than A4?

Isn't there some sort of directory or allocation table for save games? Then you could create one for the story disk with all slots used but two.

A link might increase the targeting precision.

Haha, I found this image and thought that it had been cracked by "somebody". Now I learned that it wass cracked by Peter Sabath himself. 😄 Based on the idea to have a reference of what would have been an original disk, I "removed the crack" and @Zarxx created a disk containig a track with 11 weak sectors to recreate a fully protected disk from the dump.