[Scummvm-tracker] [ScummVM :: Bugs] #15592: Unknown game variant for freescape (Dark Side / Amiga / WHDload version)

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#15592: Unknown game variant for freescape (Dark Side / Amiga / WHDload version)
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Reporter:  blam666       |       Owner:  neuromancer
    Type:  defect        |      Status:  new
Priority:  normal        |   Component:  Engine: Freescape
 Version:                |  Resolution:
Keywords:  unknown-game  |        Game:  Dark Side
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Comment (by blam666):

 Thanks you very much for investigating those versions.

 I'll try to explain what I thought was confusing about the current wiki:

 I started looking up the wiki to understand how I'm supposed to extract
 the right files from my Amiga Discs. I actually started to look for the
 Total Eclipse game files in particular.

 On the Total Eclipse wiki page there is

 1) the mention of using deark to extract 0.tec and 1.tec. This was the
 first part of what I found confusing - the hotlink just leads to the
 github page of deark without specific instructions how to use that
 program. I didn't know deark before and wasn't able to extract those files
 after trying for a while.

 I'm not sure if I was just handling it incorrectly. At least after trying
 to create an adf, there files were not accepted by ScummVM. But it could
 also have to do with the copylock protection that is mentioned there.
 Which leads me to confusing instruction 2)

 2) I suspect my version of Total Eclipse could be one of those copylock
 protection versions. When I follow the current wiki, the instructions for
 dealing with a copylock version lead me firstly to this page:

 https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=Freescape/DRM

 where I learn I'm meant to provide an ipf disk image of my disk. I
 unfortunately have no clue how to do that. I tried a bit, though, and also
 learned that deark actually doesn't even read ipf. It can only read
 regular Amiga Disc (adf) images. So I can't use that program to extract
 the necessary files either.

 But on the page I linked there is a hotlink for people who want to extract
 data from copylock protected Amiga disc.

 Now that was the MOST confusing part: That hotlink doesn't lead to
 instructions, really, but to a GitHub page that contains something that
 looks more like a program code:

 https://github.com/keirf/disk-
 utilities/blob/master/amiga/cracks/dark_side/Makefile

 I didn't really know how to proceed with that. There is also only mention
 of Darkside and the "code" seems to want some Darkside ipf I didn't have
 and no mention of Total Eclipse at all. Some of the lines read to me like
 I have to have some kind of Python base programs installed to even use any
 of what I'm reading on that page.

 So this is why I failed using my own discs to make these Amiga freescape
 versions run and be tested and found those whdload pre-installs.

 I think some more beginner-friendly instructions could help to get more
 testers of these freescape games active to check for bugs.
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