ssd@sugar.hackercorp.com (Scott Denham) (11/24/90)
Two part question for the net...
First, can anyone point me at a sector editor that has the ability both
to save a sector as a file AND to later reload that file and write the
sector back onto the disk? I've got Steve Tibbett's excellent DiskX
program which allows me to snatch the sector I want into a file, but no
way to load a sector up from a file and store it in a specific place on
another disk.
Why you ask? It seem's I've got two corrupted sectors on the master disk
for a game I bought my kids - however, I can read one the sectors OK on
one drive (intermittently) and the other OK on the other drive (also
intermittently). No amount of coaxing seems sufficient to get either drive
around both bad sectors. Unfortunately, they are both on the same
cylinder, though on opposite sides of the disk. Using TrackSalve, I
managed to get the data saved from both questionable sectors, but have yet
to work out how to write them back to the disk.
The second, and related, question, is - can anyone confirm a copier
program that can make a working copy of the Broderbund "Carmen San Diego"
games? These are great programs, but it's really DUMB to release a program
of appeal to 7 year olds in a form that you can't make a backup of. I've
been through one disk already, and I'll be darned if I'm going to keep
throwing good money after bad to replace the disk. I'd like to buy them
the other games in the series, but not unless I can make a working copy
and keep little fingers OUT of the master.
Thanks in advance....
Scott Denham
ssd@sugar.hackercorp.comDXB132@psuvm.psu.edu (11/27/90)
For sector editing, and general fixing-things-up jobs, you need one of the versions of 'Amiga Monitor'. It's a very nice machine language monitor that also has sector & file IO functions, and tons of other stuff too. It makes all the sector/file/bootblock editors obsolete, and it's easy to use. I think (not absolutely sure) that at least one version appears on a fred fish disk. -- Dan Babcock