Re: Any source to download ICPUG disk images?

From: Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 18:32:05 -0400
Message-ID: <CAALmimmX4wMr8Mv0tM3tewK58GgC=W6mnxCDe=PG2UFHyhcg5g@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 5:47 PM, Mia Magnusson <mia@plea.se> wrote:
> Den Tue, 24 Oct 2017 12:11:40 -0400 skrev Ethan Dicks
> <ethan.dicks@gmail.com>:
>> Well Ken's tripod site has the index of the ICPUG disks, but the best
>> download link I could find is
>>
>> http://freespace.virgin.net/ken.ross1/download
>
> This seems to work. Downloaded all the A*-disks.
>
> http://web.archive.org/web/20051201020459/http://freespace.virgin.net:80/ken.ross1/download/

Yes!  Thanks!

> It seems like 7-zip cannot unzip atleast A0LNX.ZIP but the buildt in
> unzipper in Windows XP seems to work fine.

Windows application problems don't interest me.  Linux unzip handles
them just fine.

> The ZIP files contains LNX files. There is a LYNX8017.ZIP which unzips
> to a LYNX8017.GT which should be an executable file for PET with BASIC
> 4. Haven't tried that.

Yeah.  I see that.  That util does load at $0401 and appears to be
compiled BASIC (petspeed)

I did try using c1541 and its unlynx command, but it doesn't like the
files the way Ken Ross packed them.  They appear to have a BASIC stub
at the front telling you to use Lynx, which is likely confusing c1541
(I never did a lot with compressed files on Commodore machines - just
not enough savings to make it worth the hassle, like now).  Maybe
there's a way to trim them manually, but I'll probably just use VICE
and xpet to do the extraction.

But at least I have those disk images I was after and that's a
fantastic start.  Thanks for the archive.org link.  I get so few
binaries that way that I don't check there first.

-ethan

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