ScuzzBlog: Diaries July 2026 Entry 6th July 2026: Post 1: Elvira - Devious little mistress. Elvira - Devious little mistress. Whilst the weather is hot I spend a lot more time with the Amigas in the Workshop. Today I decided to carry the camera around with me and whilst the images are a bit blurry they do show what I was up to. A few years ago I spent quite a bit of cash trying to get a working set of the Elvira game. Problem was the disks would arrive and they had faults. Eventually I was able to create a working set and then installed it onto the A500 with the GVP. Going back to the box with this hoard of disks in today I was unable to reason why I copied the disks as LHA files and then put them on to high density 1.4MB disks. Didn't make any sense. First up I attempted to create a set of disks from the busted ones and was able to with the exception of Disk 1. I could cheat but I like a challenge. Eventually I succeeded but then noted that the LHA sets I created last time and compared to this had a different file size for DISK1. Nothing for it but to copy to the ZIP disk and transfer over to the emulator to check the file sizes. First up though I discovered a Clara Veiga 3n21 Tools disk which are always packed with stuff that I would have been using on the day. Normally text editors, archivers and useful Workbench files. On this disk was a few pics of Clara and I couldn't resist taking a snap or two. Note that the Amiga 1200 I use has a Power Computing XL high density drive so I am able to read HD disks. The emulator was most revealing cus the LHA file that was reporting the smaller overall disk actually had more files on it. However the larger file without the additional disks reported one or two bigger file sizes. However, both disks when unarchived were exactly the same size 799K. Problem was that neither disk would fit onto a standard DD disk. So frustrating. That is why I was using HD disks to save the disk files cus of the bigger disk capacity. I am no closer to having a working set of copied disks. I have all the files and can install to HD however to play the game I would need to either keep buying the game till I got a working set or pilfer a copy off the internet by downloading. Sadly that is not what I am about. As I concluded the session I realised I had yet again traversed the wilds of Amiga wonderland tinkering and fiddling and yet as ever finished up right back where I started. Retro is like that, but if you enjoy yourself what does it matter. It wasn't like I wanted to play Elvira. Just a very pleasant thought having the opportunity. I better go. PS I'm sure the bright ones amongst you realise this is a copy protection issue. Just wish I could get round it. Elvira - Devious little mistress. The little mound of Elvira disks I have collected The LHA files I created are different for DISK1. Left pane smaller file and right pane the larger I show the files in the left that are not in the the other file and yet smaller overall. Simply comparing the file stucture of both LHA files.

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