+Allan Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 It looks like there is at least one game on here that is not available anywhere. Softline_Adventures_in_Adventuring_Pak_1.atr 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted January 19 Author Share Posted January 19 @www.atarimania.com There might be some missing games here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted January 19 Author Share Posted January 19 I just realized I made a mistake in the title of this thread. It's Softline, not Softside. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted January 19 Author Share Posted January 19 Here are the other two disks. Disk 2 seems to have some errors. Softline_Adventures_in_Adventuring_Pak_2.atr Softline_Adventures_in_Adventuring_Pak_3.atr 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DjayBee Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 4 hours ago, Allan said: Disk 2 seems to have some errors. If you supply a flux dump, I'll try a repair. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 This is great, I read about the compilation disks the other day and noted I should add entries to Atarimania. Also, some of the games on our site either don't have the correct titles or were slightly altered so this is going to be super useful. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 8 hours ago, Allan said: I just realized I made a mistake in the title of this thread. It's Softline, not Softside. just ask Albert via a PM to amend the title. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bhall408 Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 Brian Hall here... Seeing pictures of the floppies really warms my heart! This was one of my first paid projects during high school. I have 80s era dot matrix hard copy of some of the games. If items are missing or there were problems with the disk images, I can try and fix it. Thanks for finding this! 11 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted January 19 Author Share Posted January 19 39 minutes ago, bhall408 said: Brian Hall here... Seeing pictures of the floppies really warms my heart! This was one of my first paid projects during high school. I have 80s era dot matrix hard copy of some of the games. If items are missing or there were problems with the disk images, I can try and fix it. Thanks for finding this! Cool. Glad that I copied them, then. Two of the games on disk two seem to copy fine off the disk. That is all I have of these disks. I am not sure if there were any more. I scan of the magazines would probably answer that question. Unfortunately, the non-adventure Atari listings in Softline magazine don't seem to be included on these disks but I don't think there were a lot of other listings. Mostly by the articles by Bill Williams. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted January 19 Author Share Posted January 19 6 hours ago, Beeblebrox said: just ask Albert via a PM to amend the title. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted January 19 Author Share Posted January 19 10 hours ago, DjayBee said: If you supply a flux dump, I'll try a repair. Thanks, DjayBee. I will include it in the pile of disks I send off to be Kyrofluxed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted January 19 Author Share Posted January 19 7 hours ago, www.atarimania.com said: This is great, I read about the compilation disks the other day and noted I should add entries to Atarimania. Also, some of the games on our site either don't have the correct titles or were slightly altered so this is going to be super useful. I also noticed a couple of entries with the same names of some of these games but no other attributes. So hopefully some mysteries solved with these entries. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rra Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 2 hours ago, bhall408 said: Brian Hall here... Seeing pictures of the floppies really warms my heart! This was one of my first paid projects during high school. I have 80s era dot matrix hard copy of some of the games. If items are missing or there were problems with the disk images, I can try and fix it. Thanks for finding this! That's an awesome discovery! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Larry Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 On 1/19/2024 at 12:47 AM, DjayBee said: If you supply a flux dump, I'll try a repair. Out of curiosity, how does one repair a disk from a flux dump? I can see repairing a disk if it has Basic programs, but flux -- no clue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DjayBee Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 43 minutes ago, Larry said: Out of curiosity, how does one repair a disk from a flux dump? I can see repairing a disk if it has Basic programs, but flux -- no clue. Flux dumps help for two reasons: - You can exactly see which sectors have problems. This is very important to know where fixing is needed. - They contain as many data from gone-bad sectors as possible. From there on it is a mixture of bad areas only in sectors belonging to DOS, other dumps of the same title (even if versions differ), other titles from the same programmer, some experience. All in all you can summarize it with "luck". 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Larry Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 I looked at disk 2 (Altirra), and found that the files that are bad (Error #164) are AUTORUN.SYS, MENU, and MINOTAUR.A8K. I presume the Autorun and Menu are the same as the other disks, so those can be copied from disk 1 or 3. Also, does anyone know the significance of the FILENAME.LST file? I looked at it briefly, but I can't tell what it is/does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted January 20 Author Share Posted January 20 I think disk two had some files added to it by the disk owners. Hopefully Minotaur can be recovered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted January 20 Author Share Posted January 20 46 minutes ago, Larry said: Also, does anyone know the significance of the FILENAME.LST file? I looked at it briefly, but I can't tell what it is/does. It looks like a data file for some kind of disk catalog database. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bhall408 Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 Here is the source to the autorun/menu for each of disk 1 and disk 2... This was a dot matrix printout, so didn't fully capture ATASCII/inverse video... However that could be re-created... Softline Adventures Disk 1 Menu Source.pdf Softline Adventures Disk 2 Menu Source.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bhall408 Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 Letter to me from Softline, March 1983... 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted January 20 Author Share Posted January 20 1 hour ago, bhall408 said: Letter to me from Softline, March 1983... Do you remember any more details about it? How you got the job, etc.? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bhall408 Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 On 1/20/2024 at 12:54 PM, Allan said: Do you remember any more details about it? How you got the job, etc.? I have a few more items I'll post when I get around to it. I think I had approached them with the idea, and they agreed. I *think* that came as a result of having been mailing them high scores (when mailing in a high score was a thing!) I have my ANALOG "make these suggested changes and re-submit your game" rejection letters too 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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