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Multi Mark – For Stubborn 3″ Disks

I’d purchased some Three Inch disks from a well known Retro Seller some months ago, but today I was able to take a look and format them for use. Unfortunately due to their age, they had corruption on the media. My usual toolset didn’t help, cue… Multi-Mark from Tom and Jerry of GPA
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Amstrad CPC Magnum Light Gun

Recently I was asked to provide some information on the Amstrad Magnum Light Gun, and so I fired up the old hardware, loaded up my Assembler and Monitoring Tools and set about reverse engineering this legacy and rare piece of kit.

Modern Day Old School?

I blitzed my way through any protection system I could lay my hands on, we had everything from Speedlock, Appleby, Bespoke, Turbo Loaders, Musical Loaders and the general gaming community wanted games transferred from cheaper cassettes to disks. It didn't take long before I developed a number of automated tools for cracking back in the day.