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  • San Inc Pack PRODOS files help?

    From TRS-90@21:1/5 to All on Fri Oct 14 00:43:51 2022
    At the risk of sounding dense, I cannot figure out how to use the "xxxx PRODOS (san inc pack).po" files from Asimov ../collections/san_inc_prodos.

    In particular, I downloaded the newest additions Tracer Sanction and Mindshadow. Using CiderPress (in Windows), neither file could be accessed. CiderPress returned "not a recognised image file format."

    Ok, so went ahead and put both files on a USB and attached to my IIgs with a CFFA3000. Unfortunately, the CF3k utility doesn't even display those particular files as being on the USB, so no way to add them to Smartport Assignments.

    Figured a hardware-check was in order, so back to Windows and tried to add these files in AppleWin as hard disk images. No go. Boot, and immediately crashes to monitor.

    Figured maybe it's not these particular images, so I downloaded several other "pack.po" images from the same directory. Same results as above.

    Clearly I'm not understanding something. Missing a step or steps. The san inc "crack" images work fine. It's the "pack" files I'm not understanding.

    Can someone point me in the right direction?

    Thanks for reading.

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  • From fadden@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Oct 13 21:44:28 2022
    On Thursday, October 13, 2022 at 5:42:08 PM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote:
    In particular, I downloaded the newest additions Tracer Sanction and Mindshadow. Using CiderPress (in Windows), neither file could be accessed. CiderPress returned "not a recognised image file format."

    I just downloaded https://www.apple.asimov.net/images/games/collections/san_inc_prodos/mindshadow%20PRODOS%20%28san%20inc%20pack%29.po . Opened fine with CiderPress as a standard 800KB ProDOS disk image.

    "PRODOS" "SYS" "$0000" 06-Sep-86 12:00 ProDOS 15485 "LOADER.SYSTEM" "SYS" "$0000" 07-Oct-22 16:22 ProDOS 48
    "MINDSHADOW" "BIN" "$0800" 07-Oct-22 18:58 ProDOS 1638 "MINDSHADOW.A" "BIN" "$0800" 07-Oct-22 19:06 ProDOS 24241 "MINDSHADOW.L" "BIN" "$1FF8" 07-Oct-22 18:54 ProDOS 1933 "MINDSHADOW.N" "BIN" "$1FF8" 07-Oct-22 18:54 ProDOS 4106 "MINDSHADOW.P" "BIN" "$3FF8" 07-Oct-22 18:54 ProDOS 12614 "MINDSHADOW.1" "NON" "$0000" 07-Oct-22 18:36 ProDOS 126976

    The Tracer Sanction worked as well. Are the downloaded files 819,200 bytes long?

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  • From Andrew Roughan@21:1/5 to fadden on Fri Oct 14 12:19:13 2022
    fadden <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Thursday, October 13, 2022 at 5:42:08 PM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote:
    In particular, I downloaded the newest additions Tracer Sanction and
    Mindshadow. Using CiderPress (in Windows), neither file could be
    accessed. CiderPress returned "not a recognised image file format."

    I just downloaded https://www.apple.asimov.net/images/games/collections/san_inc_prodos/mindshadow%20PRODOS%20%28san%20inc%20pack%29.po
    . Opened fine with CiderPress as a standard 800KB ProDOS disk image.

    Are the downloaded files 819,200 bytes long?


    Be sure to download the file as a binary and not as text.

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  • From TRS-90@21:1/5 to All on Sat Oct 15 21:55:28 2022
    Be sure to download the file as a binary and not as text.

    This exactly was the problem. Since my FileZilla had been always set to "auto" and always got it right in the past, I never had this come up before. Much thanks!

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to Andrew Roughan on Tue Oct 18 16:59:09 2022
    Andrew Roughan <[email protected]d> wrote:
    fadden <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Thursday, October 13, 2022 at 5:42:08 PM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote:
    In particular, I downloaded the newest additions Tracer Sanction and
    Mindshadow. Using CiderPress (in Windows), neither file could be
    accessed. CiderPress returned "not a recognised image file format."

    I just downloaded
    https://www.apple.asimov.net/images/games/collections/san_inc_prodos/mindshadow%20PRODOS%20%28san%20inc%20pack%29.po
    . Opened fine with CiderPress as a standard 800KB ProDOS disk image.

    Are the downloaded files 819,200 bytes long?

    Be sure to download the file as a binary and not as text.

    Since it's coming from a webserver, there's not really any control over that
    as (AFAIK) all HTTP/HTTPS transfers are binary. RFC 2046 ยง4.1.1* says that anything sent under the text/plain MIME type must use CR/LF newlines, though most webservers don't enforce that and will send whatever is in the file.
    In any case, the files being served up by Asimov shouldn't be (and aren't)
    sent as text/plain, but are sent as application/octet-stream, which is the catch-all binary MIME type.

    For sh*ts and grins, I checked the copy on my mirror:

    https://home.alfter.us/s/oHoqDa7yGDwc9Fd/download?path=%2Fpub%2Fapple_II%2Fimages%2Fgames%2Fcollections%2Fsan_inc_prodos&files=mindshadow%20PRODOS%20(san%20inc%20pack).po

    It also opened in CiderPress without issue.

    (My mirror is updated on Monday mornings (US/Pacific) by running wget
    against the Asimov FTP server.)

    * https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30519411/what-is-the-correct-newline-to-use-with-text-plain-contenttype

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