ScuzzBlog: Diaries 2018 March 13: Entry 1821: scuzzblog: Post: 3 ADZ and decrunching those pesky Lemmings - Let's Go !! Picked up on a recent thread regarding two issues with the late great Amiga and the wonderful magazine cover disks. I say late only cus the thread was a response to a forum post just ten years old.... Seems to be the way of things these days. Anyway the issue was with Amiga Format 18A which when downloaded from some magazine cover disk repository online was freezing up at the load screen to Lemmings. Just nothing after the green screen. Interesting.... hmmm. I have both the original disk and a copy on a CD that a bought off Ebay. Time to check this out. Next issue, which again resulted in me tracking through ten year old forum threads was the issue of unpacking an ADZ file. This compressed file is basically a squished ADF file. I am guessing that to drain as much out of those quite massive Amiga files this was devised to basically get the blood out of the stone. And so I turned to Thomas Rapp and his very splendid tsgui. So here goes nothing .... Let's go !!... Seriously if you don't know where the line ' Let's Go ' comes from you really have never like ever played Lemmings... Keep up. The pictures here are taken from my Amiga 4000 and the refresh on the screen makes getting a sharp image a touch tricky. Fortunately for me the monitor is sharp as a button so tuff... The A500 that I use that sits next to the A4000 has a Philips and that is also very sharp and often very loud. I use it to play all my demos and disks created for the 500... As you do !! OK these are ADZ files.. ones on the left I have this CD with all the popular Amiga magazine cover disks on ... it. I also have pretty well all the disks anyway and the one in question many times 'AF Disk 18A' On the CD is The One CU Amiga Amiga Computing Amiga Action Amongst a number of others, but what we are looking for is Amiga Format And Disk 18A.. and there it is So I copy that to RAM T Next I fire up TSGUI And proceed to copy the disk to DF0 Highly improper and something I do not condone... So don't. Checks the newly created floppy Removes disk and slots it into the A500 Green screen with reflection of lamp in room in.. duh!! But no Lemmings Total Recall works Man does it work Probably shouldn't have done that And we are back.. This time with the actual Amiga Format Cover disk... To a great cheer and loud applause And the photographer this time switched off the lamp. And there is the green screen And there we have The Lemmings OH NO !!! Not more Lemmings Let's Go !! So if you want to play this go get the disk Let's try another ADZ file from The One Who ? Oh that Dr Who I see.. Dalek Attack.. Reaches for joystick Well that works What was I doing... It's getting dark I use the de-crunching on the 4000 for demo CDs which I have a lot of. And then play them on the Amiga 500. Great fun I tend to rename the DMS so I can find it in RAM given that I have to write the command line to de-crunch it As I am doing here All Gone !! The GVP on the 500 checks for the old virus' of the day Clash of Empires 2.1 Well I never .... Seriously ' Never ' And never will by the looks of it OK boring stats on the 4000 I'm using This has an 18GB hard drive Kickstart info.. blah blah Anyway I think that's enough... Bored now Gotta get back to Total Recall.... Bye

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