Re: Recovering Ken Ross' downloads from archive.org (was Re: Extracting Lynx archives)

From: Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 10:21:37 -0400
Message-ID: <CAALmim=4KoTbZk=9wxwBX1zq0b3NQn4mrOvqGT_Y7rynVv0AjA@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 11:35 PM, Mia Magnusson <mia@plea.se> wrote:
>> Here's the files I could get from archive.org (15% were not found).
>
> Should we try to search for the missing 15%? (I assume you tried all
> dates for the missing files?)

I did not try all dates for all files, but I did try all dates for
games.zip and it was nowhere.

>> A stack of .d64 files is desirable?
>
> As the archives anyway only contains files, not disk images, it might
> be better with a few xip files containing the prg (and seq e.t.c.)
> files, maybe split up onto one A.ZIP for the A files e.t.c.

As there are already detailed readme files for each set, I'm more
inclined to keep the sets together either as a zip archive or as a D64
image.

> But if all disks fit nicely to the d64 size, it might be a good idea
> anyway.

Most of these, I think, do fit in a d64.  There might be a couple that
require a d80.

-ethan

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