Downloads of In-Crowd and Special Action?

[mgman]

I'm looking to download backup files of the following Ocean compilations:

In-Crowd
Special Action (TAPE FORMAT)

I checked cpcrulez and cpc-power, but no luck. Are these available anywhere for download?

[robcfg]

I can see that @deepfb has The In Crowd (Karnov, Gryzor, Barbarian, Crazy Cars, Predator, Combat School, Platoon, Target Renegade) and Special Action (can have Basket Master, Salamander, Shao Lin's Road, Gryzor, Target Renegade, IK+ or Driller, Captain Blood, The Vindicator, Daley Thompson's Olympic Challenge, SDI).

I don't think the versions in the packs would be any different from the individual releases, so you can just download them one by one.

[deepfb]

I will try to dump those disks this weekend :_D

[mgman]

Thank you! That would be really appreciated.

@robcfg It's most likely, yeah. I'd still like to be double sure just in case they aren't surprisingly. Such is the case with the ZX Spectrum equivalents, at least (minor differences, but still the fact that they didn't strictly use one master candidate).

[mgman]

Bumping this, as it's been a while but I'm still on a search looking out for one of these.

It looks like the tape version of Special Action was finally preserved very recently, in December just this past year. Great!

I'm still wondering if there's a dump of The In-Crowd anywhere.

[Shaun M. Neary]

Bumping this, as it's been a while but I'm still on a search looking out for one of these.

It looks like the tape version of Special Action was finally preserved very recently, in December just this past year. Great!

I'm still wondering if there's a dump of The In-Crowd anywhere.

Not sure if this will help, but all the Ocean compilations appear to be the exact same as the original discs, the difference being is they had a menu system allowing you to pick the game on each side. If you can reverse engineer this, you'll have the closest you'll get to an exact copy.

The tape version of the In Crowd, I believe had the exact same version as the commercial releases with the exception of Karnov. The commercial release of that used a Spectrum loader, while The In Crowd version used Speedlock v5 (I think) for the main game, while the levels continued to use the Spectrum loader.