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What is an IPF file?
« on: June 23, 2006, 07:43:37 PM »
I had to replace a couple diskettes that had water damage.
My friend sent me 2 lha files with IPF extensions.

I believe he got them out of that Tosec compilation.

Are they the same as ADF?

Appreciate any help
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Re: What is an IPF file?
« Reply #1 on: June 23, 2006, 07:56:10 PM »
those are CAPS images  :roll:


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IPF probably stands for I Pee Freely..   :-D
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Re: What is an IPF file?
« Reply #2 on: June 23, 2006, 08:01:27 PM »
What is CAPS
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Re: What is an IPF file?
« Reply #3 on: June 23, 2006, 08:06:59 PM »
someone will probably explain it better, but CAPS is an attempt to 'preserve' original Amiga games, together with copy protection etc..
people probably got fed up with warez .adfs with demos, and wanted 100% originals. the catch is you cannot replicate many copy protections because they are ... er.. protected.
so your IPFs will maybe work in UAE but if they are protected you probably cant write them to original diskettes
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Re: What is an IPF file?
« Reply #4 on: June 23, 2006, 08:11:58 PM »
Thats fine , thanks for explaining.
So main tosec was with cracks ect , and they make their own type of tosec collection with all the protection.
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Re: What is an IPF file?
« Reply #5 on: June 23, 2006, 09:31:42 PM »
CAPS is now SPS (Software Preservation Society)  http://www.softpres.org/.
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Re: What is an IPF file?
« Reply #6 on: June 24, 2006, 09:19:29 PM »
Is there any way to mount an IPF image to WB, or to copy an IPF image to a floppy?
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Re: What is an IPF file?
« Reply #7 on: June 24, 2006, 09:35:16 PM »
OT: nice avatar cass! lol
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Re: What is an IPF file?
« Reply #8 on: June 24, 2006, 10:12:44 PM »
Cass: AFAIK, it depends on type of protection, if its just 'enter number on page:' it should be very similar to .adf
but if its some tougher, you could only use it in UAE with plugin. I think I've heard somewhere that people had some success with WHDLoad+IPF..

it would be really nice if there was some cheap way to write them onto real floppys so that we could restore our fading originals.

IIRC, even with those tough copy protections, usualy its not in the whole diskette, so you might overwrite the part of your original game that is not readable (assuming there is no physical damage)
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