Cry for help or: The story of lost and new found infancy

Romeo Knight · Post by **Romeo Knight** » 29/08/2004 - 20:12

Hi folks, to cut a long story short:
While I was cleaning up the cellar from clay shards this afternoon, I found two old C-64 5.25 Floppy Disks. I couldn't believe my eyes

cos they're supposed to contain forever lost C64-sid-Songs I made with Soundmonitor in my pre-Scene-pre-Romeo-Knight career!!!!

Question: Is someone here in the forum who's able to read these 2 disks out (provided that they contain something siddy at all

) and make ".sid"s out of the songs?
I'd send them to the lucky hero

and he'll be awarded two CDs of my bands Panama Speed and PUN.
I look forward to your replies!

Chris Abbott · Post by **Chris Abbott** » 29/08/2004 - 20:49

Rambones or Peter Sanden would be the men for the job: or Warren, of course.

Chris

rambones · Post by **rambones** » 30/08/2004 - 23:31

Yep sure!

It's not the first time that someone sends his disks to be copied. (tunes)

I'll give you my addy in a private mail.

Vosla · Post by **Vosla** » 31/08/2004 - 1:10

If there is still need:
Count me in as a backup solution. Got the old equipment and have actually a 1541-II connected to a pc.
Could do a 1:1 copy on a fresh 5.25" for the 1541 or as *.D64 for use with an emulator.

Romeo Knight · Post by **Romeo Knight** » 01/09/2004 - 12:15

Thank you guys, for offering your help.
rambones already gave me his address - C64-god will bless you all for this!

rambones · Post by **rambones** » 02/09/2004 - 11:24

I look forward to hearing what it is, music archaeology is my job!

Romeo Knight · Post by **Romeo Knight** » 02/09/2004 - 20:21

Don't have too much anticipation - if there's sid stuff on it at all, I haven't heard it for maybe 18 years now, and those sids have been my first steps in making music on my own at all. All I remember is that the first song I ever did was named "Sunspots", another one later "The last dusk", and I made a conversion of "Just can't get enough" by Depeche Mode.

Urrgs....

ifadeo · Post by **ifadeo** » 02/09/2004 - 23:02

..and maybe they contains that infamous pre-version of Crack of Dawn....

best wishes

ifadeo

rambones · Post by **rambones** » 02/09/2004 - 23:14

Hehe, it will be quite funny if the best data recovery ever comes to us regular users.

By measuring the magnets, you can tell what tendency they have to move in, and that is always towards the previous position. This means you can recreate data that was on many levels before now.

The magnets even tell in what order they have been stimulated, so therefore the scanner knows the correct sequence to read bits in.

It doesn't matter that you wrote half a file, and formatted the disk, and sectors went lost etc. the magnets can't lie!

Proffs can spool back a harddisk several years and find old software on it, it works! but these systems are just so expensive.