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|    Benny Pedersen to Keith Matthews    |
|    Looking for Drive Doctor    |
|    17 Jul 10 13:43:56    |
      Hello Keith!              17 Jul 2010 13:11, Keith Matthews wrote to Benny Pedersen:               KM> The backup was on 42 Diskettes, using Quaterback 5.1. Which was a         KM> brilliant peice of Backup SW for its day 8-)              yep i know that program also here               KM> Discsalv doesn't quite do what I want. What I need to do is check all         KM> the 200 or so .adf images I have made of my disks over the last year.              oh              mount -o loop -t affs imagefile.adf /mountpoint              ls -lhr /mountpoint/              viola (just need amiga support in kernel)               KM> Drive Doctor was really good at doing that.              okay i still wonder how aminet checking virus for amiga, might be the linux       mount trick ?               KM> Yeah, but I really liked Drive Doctor. 8-)              yep hope the source will come up to aminet, i got the complete xenolink       sources, but lost it before i got it ready for aminet :(               KM> Disksalv is the way to go there for sure. I found another very good         KM> prg on aminet called Diskmate.              i will warn about make changes inplace even with disksalv, it must be the       latest v4 of disksalv, v3 and lover have a number of bugs that trash       filesystem even worse then not a dos disk, atleast this is not rdb loose but       if its system partion one is loost               KM> Do you mean floppy based classic amiga games?              have some disk yes, mostly from magasines that have some games each               KM> Yeah thats not surprising. I never had the luck of getting a ppc card         KM> 8-(              i got this one from a fellow xenolink user/sysop, he sold his a3000t aswell to       another friend, damm i would have taked this one to, if i had known it in       time, but okay i got a a4000t now :)               KM> But the Natami Project looks like its about ready to go into         KM> production soon so that will be perfect for running classic Amiga stuff       on.              yep, as the natami is designed the a1000 should really have being that in the       start, who needs another computer with that ?, the more i have readed about       what being done the worse it got with ppc boards, and its got so expensive not       to bay one of them               KM> Thats Odd, I was pretty sure WB 2.04 would load under KS 3.1. I'll         KM> have to check              yes will also have to check why one more time here, on another amiga i have                      Regards Benny              ... there can only be one way of life, and it works :)              --- Msged/LNX 6.2.0 (Linux/2.6.34-gentoo-r1 (i686))        * Origin: www.region23.dk/ www.fido.dk/ <128000K ram after bootup (2:237/53)    |
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