Backing up Amiga game disks?

[ChrisUnionNJ]

You may not care about this for your purposes, but a copy produced with Maverick may not be an entirely faithful clone.

I'm not familiar with Amiga version of Maverick, but I have the C64 version. Bundled is several disks worth of game-specific parameters. The reason for that is that a lot of the later protections can't be written back to real floppies with unmodified hardware, so Maverick partially hacks them during the copy. The parameters tell it what needs to be done for each title.

I liked it because a copy with maverick made your disk drive last longer in most cases..

Chris :nuts:

 

[Tomse]

I didn't know they had Mavrick for amiga, used it to backup my Gunship and Stealthfighter disks, which took a long time, but did the job

if the quality is as good as for the C64, and your game is located in it's database, then you are set if you can find it

Here's a Screen shot..

Chris

Nizzle-sticks ;-) I don't even remember how the C64 version looked like, just that it had a long list of games/apps, and some of them had a custom copier ;-)

thanks for the piccy though ;-)

 

[Rixa]

I liked it because a copy with maverick made your disk drive last longer in most cases..

Yeah, protections often don't care about the health of your disk drive. Maverick may get rid of some unnecessary head bumps etc.

I think Rapidlok for instance is quite dangerous. If I recall correctly, it sends the head moving to higher tracks and stops if it sees what it likes when it passes over the highest track. Otherwise it will just keep moving until it hits the end of the line, possibly getting stuck and necessitating repairs on the drive. With age degrading the media, who knows when this will start happening with the original..

Anyways, I was just intending to point out that Maverick makes fine 'work copies' to play the games with, but it may not be of archival quality if that's what you're looking for.

 

[ChrisUnionNJ]

I didn't know they had Mavrick for amiga, used it to backup my Gunship and Stealthfighter disks, which took a long time, but did the job

if the quality is as good as for the C64, and your game is located in it's database, then you are set if you can find it

Here's a Screen shot..

Chris

Nizzle-sticks ;-) I don't even remember how the C64 version looked like, just that it had a long list of games/apps, and some of them had a custom copier ;-)

thanks for the piccy though ;-)

I'll have to check the .d64 dvd's I made see if I can find it if not i'll make one since I still have the real floppys..

Chris