Hi all, some of you may remember that I have for the longest time trying to gather all games available from the "Microdrive era" (slavaging mine and buying stuff off eBay) and convert them to QLAY mdv format for preservation... Yesterday however I hit a brick wall (Not Wolfgang's "WALL" ;-) ) that I will need some help to recover from ;-) Specifically while I was transferring games from their cartridges to disk (mdv file) 10 (!!!!!!) of my cartridges died... :-( (The irony of the thing is when I was trying to run the games to see if the cartridges were still good I did salvage a lot of them thanks to the "format ramx_mdvx" command, but the second time around when I was trying to copy them the tapes either were too brittle to survive a second run, or the tape got mangled inside the cartridge -or- the spring sponge gave up the spirit and scratched the tape... The mangled tapes i tried to salvage but I was only successful on one (Imagine) the rest are dead :-(( )
Anyway, below is the list of what I have so far and which ones I couldn't save... If someone can send me zipped images of the cartridges it would be appreciated.. I prefer the original protected form (that's the whole point of this anyway) but in lieu of not getting something at all I wouldn't have problems with "unprotected" ones Everything with an asterisk "*" I am still looking for Games Current List Game # Mdvs Status S. Davis Snooker 1 OK Imagine 2 OK Eidersoft Karate 1 Dead Cartridge Eidersoft Citadel 1 Dead Cartridge PSION Chess 1 Dead Cartridge PSION Matchpoint 1 Dead Cartridge Lands of Havoc 1 OK Medic Metro 1 Dead Cartridge Hyperdrive 1 Dead Cartridge Bounder 1 OK Quboids 1 Dead Cartridge (Maybe salvagable) Spook 1 * Backgammon 1 OK Reversi 1 OK Double Dominoes 1 OK Zapper/Eagle 1 OK (Also PD, Received permission by J.M.Fl?gel 6 years ago) Pawn 2 Dead Cartridge (Have it but not in original form ie.. as Zip adventure) Cuthbert in Space 1 Dead Cartridge (which I misplaced somewhere so *) BJ's return 1 * Towers of Hanoi 1 Salvageable but didn't save it yet Josiah Oobadiah 1 OK Arkanoid 1 * Text Adventure 2 OK QL Flight 1 Dead Cartridge Zkul 2 OK West 2 OK Also here's a partial list of my mdv software Name #of mdvs Status --------------------------------- ------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Psion Suite 4 OK - Saved in several versions (incl. US version) QL Gardener 2 * (I have it in Greece I am sure) Q-Monix 3 OK Computer 1 Pascal 2 OK but can't find the ROM :-( Eidersoft ICE Toolkit 1 Dead Cartridge ICE 1+Rom OK EyeQ 1 OK DP Collection Too many! OK (Bought it years ago in Disk form ;-) DB-Easy 1 OK (Bill demonstrated it running under PC-Four as well!!!!!) Archdev 1 OK Sandy CP/Mulator 2 + ROM Have the ROM not the software Gas Model Simulator 1 Dead Cartridge ....etc.. Phoebus