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HoboBen
Created : 28 May 2010
 

Commander Keen beta discovered on 20 year old disk!



https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/c8uq0/commander_keen_beta_discovered_on_20_year_old_disk/
"A pre-release copy of Commander Keen: Invasion of the Vorticons was discovered on a 20 year old floppy disk, and can be downloaded or played online at RGB Classic Games.

The amazing discovery came when a forum member posted a disk image of a Gamer's Edge Sampler of Dangerous Dave and Catacomb in this forum thread and noted that a hex editor had apparently discovered some source code from Keen 1 in it. A member of the Public Commander Keen Forum scanned the image with an undelete program and discovered the disk had previously contained a copy of Commander Keen: Invasion of the Vorticons that had been erased, and the disk was reused as the master disk for a Gamer's Edge Sampler disk. He was able to recover a complete copy of Keen 1, as well as corrupted files from Keen 2,"

Via reddit

 

Comments
Friday, 28 May 2010, 04:10
Jayenkai
 		So, wait, floppy disk images go so deep than they can even store undeleted files?

Can somebody PLEASE explain why I still can't use Amiga floppys?!!?!


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otherwise, Neat!!
Saturday, 29 May 2010, 12:30
9572AD
 		Undelete was a common feature until MS removed it for unknown reasons. Delete only removed the entry from the disk directory by putting a special character in the place of the first character of the filename.

What I want to know is how someone found a 20 year old floppy that still worked? Even my DVDs are degrading faster than that!
Saturday, 29 May 2010, 12:33
HoboBen
 		I've still got games on floppy from '91 that work fine!

DVDs do degrade quite easily though - for long term storage, CDs last longer.
Sunday, 30 May 2010, 00:45
spinal
 		didn't delete just change the first character to ! or something like that, so Del filename.ext would really jusr Ren filename.ext !ilename.ext, then DOS wouldn't find it?

Also, didn't amiga disks have a 'better' file system that didn't rely on a FAT to work?

-Unrelated- I remember having a Tri-formatted disk from a magazine, which was part-formatted for MSDOS, AOS and Amiga, My cross-dos enabled A1200 used to go mental when reading it and usually detected it as two disks.