DjayBee Posted June 27, 2022 Share Posted June 27, 2022 My first try in creating a torrent. ? a8preservation release 2020-06-27 a8preservation-220627.torrent Related ClearMame file Atari 8bit Preserved Software 2022-06-27.dat 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DjayBee Posted June 27, 2022 Share Posted June 27, 2022 On 6/26/2022 at 9:42 PM, Zarxx said: Real hardware - PAL - Normal 1050 The Atarimania ATX version hangs on the first protection check, the new one loads fine with no discernible retries like it does in Altirra (PAL). 48 seconds vs 60 This is interesting. In Altirra the check itself still fails with the new ATX. Can you please run the Skew test from my test suite against Transylvania in your 1050 and post the timings you receive? CheckProtection111.atr Examples from Altirra with Transylvania in D2: and five runs of the test: PAL NTSC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zarxx Posted June 27, 2022 Share Posted June 27, 2022 Loads on both 1050 & 810 fine 1050 - D1.TXT 1050 - D2.TXT 810.TXT 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DjayBee Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 17 hours ago, Zarxx said: Loads on both 1050 & 810 fine This is really weird. I just retried it in Altirra and got reliably lots of NOKs with either 810 or 1050 in standard and full emulation mode. But what I also recognized is that 400s and 800s seem to sometimes match the needed timing whereas XLs and XEs don't (even with OS-B). I guess that you ran the test on an 800. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ijor Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 On 6/26/2022 at 4:42 PM, Zarxx said: Real hardware - PAL - Normal 1050 The Atarimania ATX version hangs on the first protection check, the new one loads fine with no discernible retries like it does in Altirra (PAL). 48 seconds vs 60 What do you mean by real hardware? You run the image with some SIO device that supports ATX? Or did you write back the image to physical disk? If so, exactly how, with a8rawconv, from the ATX file or from the flux level dump? I am asking because, conceivable, the results you are seeing might be different than using an original disk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DjayBee Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 (edited) 22 hours ago, DjayBee said: My first try in creating a torrent. ? I withdrew that first one because my qBittorrent client had created it with .pad files. Due to this, it grew a lot in size and also some Bittorrent clients refused to start it. I hope this one works better and also for everyone: a8preservation-220627v2.torrent Edited June 28, 2022 by DjayBee 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 AHa, another little birthday present, Nice one Djaybee...Always nice to see a new release...Thank you.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zarxx Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 53 minutes ago, ijor said: What do you mean by real hardware? You run the image with some SIO device that supports ATX? Or did you write back the image to physical disk? If so, exactly how, with a8rawconv, from the ATX file or from the flux level dump? I am asking because, conceivable, the results you are seeing might be different than using an original disk. Atari 800 PAL, ATX to floppy via a8rwaconv (v0.94). Unmodified 1050 & 810 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zarxx Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 3 hours ago, DjayBee said: This is really weird. I just retried it in Altirra and got reliably lots of NOKs with either 810 or 1050 in standard and full emulation mode. But what I also recognized is that 400s and 800s seem to sometimes match the needed timing whereas XLs and XEs don't (even with OS-B). I guess that you ran the test on an 800. Few more - 20 run. I have PAL 65/130XE and 800XL if you need more. 800 PAL (Icognito - Colleen 48k, OS-B) - 800.TXT 800 PAL (Icognito - Colleen 48k, OS-B) - 1050.TXT 800 PAL (Icognito - XL-XE, 1088k) - 800.TXT 800 PAL (Icognito - XL-XE, 1088k) - 1050.TXT 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FULS Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 3 hours ago, DjayBee said: I withdrew that first one because my qBittorrent client had created it with .pad files. Due to this, it grew a lot in size and also some Bittorrent clients refused to start it. I hope this one works better and also for everyone: a8preservation-220627v2.torrent 354.33 kB · 12 downloads Hey is this working for you guys? I'm having trouble connecting. Might just be me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+gnusto Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 1 hour ago, FULS said: Hey is this working for you guys? I'm having trouble connecting. Might just be me. It works, there is only a single seed at this point. I'm attaching a machine to the torrent that has a lot of bandwidth and will leave it seeding for the foreseeable future. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E474 Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 Isn't it supposed to include a tracker URL? I opened the torrent file using http://torrenteditor.com/ - and it was missing. Not created a torrent file myself, but I thought this was required? I went from https://lifehacker.com/how-to-share-your-own-files-using-bittorrent-5534190 - so I might have got this wrong though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+gnusto Posted June 29, 2022 Share Posted June 29, 2022 12 minutes ago, E474 said: Isn't it supposed to include a tracker URL? It helps but isn't actually required. If the original seed stays on, or DHT is on and a few people pick up, it still downloads but will be slower to start up for new people joining. I'm assuming Djaybee is keeping his original going and even in the time we've been typing here it's gone from 1 to 4 seeds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckybuck Posted June 29, 2022 Share Posted June 29, 2022 On 6/27/2022 at 10:04 PM, DjayBee said: My first try in creating a torrent. ? a8preservation release 2020-06-27 a8preservation-220627.torrent 1.1 MB · 20 downloads Related ClearMame file Atari 8bit Preserved Software 2022-06-27.dat 1.24 MB · 11 downloads Works like a charm! ? Please go ahead! ? Thank you sooooo much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckybuck Posted June 29, 2022 Share Posted June 29, 2022 10 hours ago, DjayBee said: I withdrew that first one because my qBittorrent client had created it with .pad files. Due to this, it grew a lot in size and also some Bittorrent clients refused to start it. I hope this one works better and also for everyone: a8preservation-220627v2.torrent 354.33 kB · 35 downloads Works, too! Please see above. Again, thank you soooo much. ? Great pleasure, summer is safe. ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted June 29, 2022 Share Posted June 29, 2022 (edited) Slightly confused, looked at both torrents and one is 2.1G and the other 3.53G ? Just saw above post, and spotted the pad files in the torrent...Switched to smaller one Will be seeding in a couple of mins on the 2nd torrent, will leave machine on seeding for the day and the same 2mozz but I can't do it all night as the old gas and electric prices are silly now and we are limited income (still want to help though so it will be on when my machines on during the day..) Happy downloading.. Edited June 29, 2022 by Mclaneinc 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timothy Kline Posted June 29, 2022 Share Posted June 29, 2022 For anyone who prefers to download apart from torrent, the latest A8Preservation file is available at this link: https://atari-cellar.net/index.php/s/MRjHAoV4W2DP6y3 Notes: * The torrent was 7zipped into a single archive. * The torrent file is also available at this link. * I formerly hosted the latest release of a8preservation at atari-owner.com in a subfolder, but have since moved those files to the Atari-Cellar. 1 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted June 29, 2022 Share Posted June 29, 2022 Could we have a list of the changes or at least know when the files were last updated? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DjayBee Posted June 29, 2022 Share Posted June 29, 2022 23 minutes ago, www.atarimania.com said: Could we have a list of the changes or at least know when the files were last updated? 27.06.2022 like the name of the torrent file suggests. Farb made many changes during the last weeks. This is also the state on which the upcoming update of my archive.org crack-repository will be based on. Disclaimer: I have not started to process it. Therefore I have no ETA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted June 29, 2022 Share Posted June 29, 2022 10 minutes ago, DjayBee said: 27.06.2022 like the name of the torrent file suggests. Farb made many changes during the last weeks. As everything is dated June 28th or 29th, there's no way to know when the last modification for a given title took place unless you unzip the file, nor is there information on any added software. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E474 Posted June 29, 2022 Share Posted June 29, 2022 I got nothing trying to download the torrent and gave up after 3 hours. The file download provided by @Timothy Kline closed the connection every 500MB (exactly, so probably a setting in ownCloud), but I used uGet, which allows autoresume. The error listed was: Message: HTTP/2 stream 0 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farb Posted June 29, 2022 Author Share Posted June 29, 2022 6 minutes ago, www.atarimania.com said: As everything is dated June 28th or 29th, there's no way to know when the last modification for a given title took place unless you unzip the file, nor is there information on any added software. We aren't tracking individual changes at the DB level. Easiest thing is to do a text diff between the new DAT file and the previous one to see what has changed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfollowell Posted June 29, 2022 Share Posted June 29, 2022 Is this a complete archive with everything put out by a8preservation or just new/changed stuff since the last archive? Thanks for doing this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DjayBee Posted June 29, 2022 Share Posted June 29, 2022 6 minutes ago, bfollowell said: Is this a complete archive Yes. Releases are always complete archives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farb Posted June 29, 2022 Author Share Posted June 29, 2022 6 minutes ago, bfollowell said: Is this a complete archive with everything put out by a8preservation or just new/changed stuff since the last archive? Thanks for doing this. Every release is a complete replacement for prior ones. Things get added, modified and removed as we learn new things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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