smesgr Posted October 11, 2022 Share Posted October 11, 2022 Hi, I have cleaned up my attic and found a pile of Atari XL floppies. On one of them is a copy of "Pirates of the Barbary Coast" on a ... ehm backup - but to my suprise the floppy contains a German Version of the game. According to my research the game was never released in another language than english. The floppy is at least from 1990 maybe a bit earlier. Has somebody an idea where this originate from? 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olix Posted October 13, 2022 Share Posted October 13, 2022 Could you please upload an ATR File of this Disk? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smesgr Posted October 14, 2022 Author Share Posted October 14, 2022 sure. See attachment. PiratesOfBarbaryCoast_GER.zip 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Bacardi Posted October 14, 2022 Share Posted October 14, 2022 1 hour ago, smesgr said: sure. See attachment. PiratesOfBarbaryCoast_GER.zip 91.7 kB · 1 download hmmm, still get english text... Can you please check again? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DjayBee Posted October 14, 2022 Share Posted October 14, 2022 This must have been the wrong dump. The only difference to a8preservation's dump seems to be some high-score or save-game data on side B (upper half of screen image is text from your dump and the lower half shows text from the original disk): Hex-dump off ALL differing bytes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smesgr Posted October 14, 2022 Author Share Posted October 14, 2022 (edited) sorry I'm dumb. The above dump should be from my original copy of the UK release. Here we go PiratesOfBarbaryCoast_GER.zip Edited October 14, 2022 by smesgr 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smesgr Posted October 18, 2022 Author Share Posted October 18, 2022 (edited) On 10/14/2022 at 5:50 PM, DjayBee said: The only difference to a8preservation's dump seems to be some high-score or save-game data on side B (upper half of screen image is text from your dump and the lower half shows text from the original disk): how did you do this? Could you please point me to the software you are using for this. Thank you Edited October 18, 2022 by smesgr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DjayBee Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, smesgr said: how did you do this? Could you please point me to the software you are using for this. Thank you The diffing was done in WinMerge. The screen dump with the text was done manually in Altirra because it seemed to me the most vivid way to show the text info. I started Altirra without any disk, so it jumped into BASIC, opened the debugger and looked where the current screen memory is located, pasted the hex values from the disk dump into an e-command of Altirra's debugger which wrote to the beginning of screen memory, added a few hundred bytes to the screen address, pasted the hex bytes from the other dump into an e-command pointing to the second address and finally resumed the emulation to receive the expected screen output unsophisticated, somehow stupid but effective Edited October 18, 2022 by DjayBee 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted October 19, 2022 Share Posted October 19, 2022 I expect it's just a fan edit, was / is quite the thing on the console games, probably done with D.I.S.K.E.Y. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrshoujo Posted October 19, 2022 Share Posted October 19, 2022 When I did sector editing, I used a BASIC program published in COMPUTE! except for the time I edited the font in the Paperclip word processor which I did bit by bit using a joystick with a utility called TRACER.COM. Unfortunately, the disk got magnetically garbled before I made a copy and basically lost a working copy and nobody seems to know what it was as I've never been able to find another good copy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted October 19, 2022 Share Posted October 19, 2022 DISKEY was always my fave editor, the EOR feature was great for hidden text. What I used for my hack of Sidewinder called Raid over Libya.. PS, which are you missing, the edited Paperclip or the tracer.com? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smesgr Posted October 20, 2022 Author Share Posted October 20, 2022 On 10/18/2022 at 10:43 PM, DjayBee said: The diffing was done in WinMerge. The screen dump with the text was done manually in Altirra because it seemed to me the most vivid way to show the text info. I started Altirra without any disk, so it jumped into BASIC, opened the debugger and looked where the current screen memory is located, pasted the hex values from the disk dump into an e-command of Altirra's debugger which wrote to the beginning of screen memory, added a few hundred bytes to the screen address, pasted the hex bytes from the other dump into an e-command pointing to the second address and finally resumed the emulation to receive the expected screen output unsophisticated, somehow stupid but effective uff i hoped for something more straight forwards. But thanks anyway :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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