This page provides a short description of protections found on Atari games/programs I have analyzed. For a detailed description of Atari protections please refer to my FD protection document.
It must be noted that:

For each game the protections are detailed. Click on the images for more detailled images.

If you want to perform the analysis by yourself used the latest version of Aufit program and download the image from one of the following source

 

List of Games / Programs

  1. Addicted to Fun - Ninja Collection
  2. After the War
  3. Air Sea Supremacy Compilation – Ubisoft 1989
  4. Airborne Ranger
  5. Albedo
  6. AMC
  7. Andes Attack
  8. Antago
  9. Archipelagos
  10. Artic Fox - Electronic Arts
  11. Armalyte - The Final Run
  12. Asterix Operation Getafix
  13. Asteroids de Luxe
  14. Atari Arcade Classic
  15. Au nom de l'Hermine
  16. Aventures de Moktar
  17. Awesome
  18. Back to the Future III
  19. Balade au Pays de Big Ben
  20. Barbarian
  21. Bismark
  22. Blood Money
  23. Bob Morane
  24. Cabal
  25. Cadaver
  26. Chambers of Shaolin
  27. Chaos Engine
  28. Chaos Strike Back
  29. Chicago 90
  30. Cisco Heat
  31. Colorado
  32. Computer Hit Volume 2
  33. Crack Down
  34. Crazy Cars III
  35. Crossbow
  36. Deuteros
  37. DM CSB Cartographer
  38. DM Editor
  39. Double Dragon
  40. Double Dragon III - The rosetta Stone
  41. Dr. Doom Revenge
  42. Dr.T DE50 Editor V1 - 1987
  43. Dr.T DE50 Editor V2 - 1988
  44. Dr.T Fingers V1 - 1988
  45. Dr.T KCS Level 2 - 1988
  46. Dr.T Music Mouse 1989
  47. Dr.T Omega II - 1984-1993
  48. Dr.T Tiger - 1988
  49. Dr.T Tunesmith 1988
  50. Dr.T D110 Editor 1988
  51. Dragonflight
  52. Dragon Ninja
  53. Dungeon Master
  54. Dyter 07
  55. ECO Ocean Software 1987
  56. Electronic Pool
  57. Eliminator Hewson 1988
  58. Elivira
  59. Epic
  60. ESWAT
  61. Explora 3
  62. F29 Retaliator
  63. Falcon - Spectrum Holobye
  64. FF2
  65. Fighter Bomber
  66. Fighting Soccer
  67. Fire and Forget
  68. Football Manager 2
  69. Forgotten World
  70. Foundations Waste
  71. Games Galore
  72. Gauntlet II
  73. Gazza SM
  74. Ghost Buster II
  75. Gods
  76. Golden Axe
  77. Guerrier Ninja
  78. Gunship
  79. Hard Drivin
  80. Herro Quest
  81. Hostages
  82. Hound of Shadow
  83. Indiana Jones - Fate of Atlantis
  84. Indy Graphic Adventure
  85. Internationll Ice Hockey
  86. Iron Lord
  87. Ishar
  88. Ishar III
  89. Jupiter Master Drive
  90. Karate Kid II
  91. Kick Off
  92. Kick Off 2
  93. Kung Fu Master
  94. Legend
  95. Lombard RAC Rally
  96. Loom
  97. Maniac Mansion
  98. Manoir de Mortevielle
  99. Maupiti Island
  100. Mega Traveller
  101. Mig 29 Soviet Fighter
  102. Mr Helli
  103. New Zeland Story
  104. Night Shift
  105. Ninja Rabbits
  106. Nitroboost Chalenge
  107. Obitous
  108. Orbitus
  109. Odd Stuff 2001 Dune Sector
  110. Operation Neptune
  111. Operation Stealth
  112. Operation Thunderbolt
  113. Outrun
  114. Outzone
  115. P47 Firebird
  116. Pacmania
  117. Phobia
  118. Pick'n Pile
  119. Populous
  120. Populous II
  121. Power Drift
  122. Power Play Game of the Gods
  123. Predator 2
  124. Pro Tennis Tour
  125. Pro Tenis Tour II
  126. Prohibition
  127. Rainbird
  128. Rally Cross Challenge
  129. Real of the Troll
  130. Rick Dangerous
  131. Ringside
  132. Road Blaster
  133. Roadwar 2000
  134. Robocop 2
  135. RType
  136. RType 2
  137. Ruff and Ready
  138. Run the Gauntlet

 

Addicted to Fun - Ninja Collection

Image from Atari forum in SCP format. Image quality seems good

Double Dragon

Protection Analysis

Dragon Ninja (revision 2)

Shadow Warriors (revision 2)

Disk 1 does not seems to have any protections.

Disk 2 Protection

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After the War

Image from Atari Forum in SCP format.

Quality does not seems bad but in fact the track 72.0 has problems. You can see in the flux display window a red dot just before the detail check mark. If you switch to the information tab you will see the following message "*** Sector not found exception T72.0 Sect count=10 *** switching to safe mode". This indicates inconsistent number of sectors detected by Aufit and thefore it automatically switches to safe mode. Indeed if you look at the sector data display you will see that on certain revolutions the sector 8 (close to the end) is sometimes detected and sometimes notIf you switch to the Data View tab and look at track content you will see that in some revolutions only 2 sync marks are detected in front of the ID field of this sector (and therefore sector is not found). In a case like this Aufit probably wont be able to create a correct Pasti stx file. The only chance you have is to select a revolution where all the sectors are detected.

Here we zoom where problem arises (at 161.5 ms).

Protections

 

Disk 2 seems to be single sided and not using any protection?

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Air Sea Supremacy Compilation – Ubisoft 1989

Image from Atari-Forum in SCP format only.

Disk1 - Gunship

The overall image quality is average but the conversion to stx seems to work.

Protection Analysis:

Disk 2 - Silent Service

Overall image quality of stream file not good lots of wobulation. (00.0 36.0-43.0) but convertion to stx ok

Disk 3 - P47 Jaleco

Image quality OK, Convertion ok

Disk 4 - F15 Strike Eagle

Quality ok, convertion stx ok

Disk 5 - Carrier Command

Image quality medium wobulation in range 47++ 52++. Convertion stx ok

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Airbourne Ranger

Image from Brume in Kryoflux format only.

Disk A

Image quality is good. can't check the STX Conversion as answers from book are needed to play

Disk B

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Albedo

Images Kryoflux + SCP from Brume

The game can be converted to STX format. It works without problems on Hatari 1.8 but has problem on Steam 3.6.4 seems like 3.7 help in running the program but still not 100%. Seems to be a problem of timing and saving the STX file in Aufit with track sync header also help.

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AMC

Image from Atari-Forum in SCP format only. One bad track D2-T10.0 (cant be recovered) + one bad quality track D2-T08.0

Disk 1

Disk 2

Notes

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Atari Arcade Classic (one disk)

Contains: Battlezone CrystalCastles MissileCommand SuperBreakout

Image from Atari-Forum SCP format only (does not seems to be original?).

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Au nom de l'Hermine

Image from Brume Kryoflux format only.

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Aventures de Moktar (Titus) 1991

Images from Brune Kryoflux + SCP. Quality medium. KF T73.1 - Can be recovered

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Awesome Psygnosis 1991

Images Kryoflux + SCP from my personal disks.

Disk 1 + 2 + 3

KF: Quality good except Disk 2 track 29.1 + 31.1 - can be recovered

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Back to the Future III - Imageworks 1991 (UCS 1990)

Images Kryoflux + SCP from my personal disks. Quality image excellent

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Balade au Pays de Big Ben - Coktel Vision 1989

Images Kryoflux + SCP from my personal disks. Quality image KF excellent, SCP D1 T02.0 bad - can be recovered

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Barbarian - Psygnosis 1987 licensed to Klassix

Images Kryoflux + SCP from my personal disks. Quality image is good except D2 T72.0 (not good in KF & SCP).

Image SCP from Jim. Quality is good. Note that protection differs!

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Blood Money - Psygnosis 1989

Images Kryoflux from my personal disks.

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Bob Morane Science Fiction 1 - Infogrames 1987

Images Kryoflux from my personal disks.

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Cabal - Ocean Software 1989

Images Kryoflux from my personal disks.

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Cadaver

Image Kryoflux from Brume

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Chambers of Shaolin

Images SCP from Atari-Forum

Disk 1

First all tracks are sampled at around 1950 µs - do not know if this is on purpose or nat (could be because imaged on slow drive) and therefore all have about 6400+ bytes

Disk 2

Same tricks as disk 1 used but something more. All tracks on side 1 are using a bit width 5% below normal (around 1900 µs) so they are long track with about 6550+ bytes. Here is a picture with clock diagram zoomed.

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Chaos Engine - Bitnap Brothers 1993

Images Kryoflux + SCP from my personal disks.

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Chaos Strike Back - FTL Games 1989

Images Kryoflux from my personal disks. Image quality good

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Chicago 90 - Ubisoft 1990

Images Kryoflux + SCP from my personal disks. Image quality not good

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Cisco Heat

Images Kryoflux + SCP from my personal disks. Image quality KF good but T76.1 bad but can be recovered.
SCP many tracks on side 1 pretty bad some track beyond recover :(

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Colorado

Discovery Cartridge Image from Ijor -> created disk and KF image. Also SCP from Jim. Quality KF good but T75.1 ba d but can be recovered.

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Computer Hits Volume 2 - Beau-Kolly 1988

Images Kryoflux + SCP from my personal disks. Disk 1: TauCeti + Tetris, Disk2: Joe Blade + Tracker. Quality good

The SCP D2 file is one of the few example of ID beyond Index (IDI). The track ends with few sync bytes immediately followed by the IDAM. When reading from start of track we do not see the ID as we are missing the sync bytes located at end of track !!!

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Crack Down

Single disk image in KF from my collection. Two disks version from Atari-Forum in SCP format

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Crazy Cars III

Image SCP form Atari-Forum. Quality good

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Crossbow

Image KF form my collection.

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Deuteros - Activision 1991

Images Kryoflux from my personal collection. 2 Disks

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DM-CSB Cartographer

Images Kryoflux from my personal collection

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DM Editor

Images Kryoflux from my personal collection

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Double Dragon

Image SCP form Atari-Forum. 2 disks Quality good

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Double Dragon III

Image KF & SCP (multiple) form Atari-Forum. 2 disks Quality good

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Dr. Doom Revenge

Image SCP form Atari-Forum. Quality good

No way to display information correctly from SCP file.

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Dr.T DE50 Editor V1 - 1987

Images Kryoflux + SCP from my personal collection

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Dr.T DE50 Editor V2 - 1988

Images Kryoflux + SCP from my personal collection

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Dr. T Fingers 1988

Images Kryoflux + SCP from my personal collection

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Dr.T KCS Level 2 1988

Images Kryoflux + SCP from my personal collection. 5 Disks (scp aux program - recoverable error)

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Dr.T Music Mouse - 1989

Images Kryoflux + SCP from my personal collection

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Dr.T Omega II - 1984-1993

Images Kryoflux + SCP from my personal collection. Two disks

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Dr.T Tiger - 1988

Images Kryoflux + SCP from my personal collection

Side 1 has starnge pattern. Quality SCP not good GrayDisk 49.0 pretty bad bu recoverable

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Dr.T Tunesmith - 1988

Images Kryoflux + SCP from my personal collection

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Dr.T D110 Editor - 1988

Images Kryoflux + SCP from my personal collection

Image bad cannot be recovered. Need cleaning?

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Dragonflight

Images Kryoflux + SCP from my personal collection

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Dragon Ninja - Imagine 1989 - Ocean 1991

Images Kryoflux + SCP from my personal collection -- + SCP from Atari - Forum

Other versio seems to use Rob Northen

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Dungeon Master - FTL 1988

Images Kryoflux from my personal disks. Image quality excellent

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Dyter 07

Images Kryoflux from Brume.b Quality OK (bit width variation on first track but ok)

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Eco Ocean SW 1987

Images SCP from Atari-Forum. Only one revolution and bad quality. But convertion to STX ok

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Electronic Pool - Microdeal 1986

Images Kryoflux from my personal collection. Good quality (not sure is an original?).

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Eliminator Hewson Premier Collection 2

Version from Atari-Forum

Images Kryoflux from Atari-Forum. Good Quality convertion stx OK

Version from my collection

Images Kryoflux + SCP from my personal collection - Quality not good (KF slightly better) but convert OK thanks to Aufit DPLL
This version uses a different protection on different track.

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Elvira

Images Kryoflux from my personal collection

5 disks does not seems protected

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Epic

Images Kryoflux from my personal collection

2 disks does not seems protected?

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ESWAT

Images Kryoflux from my personal collection

Exact same protection on both disks so CRC error must be done on purpose. On disk D2 CRC is $0000

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Explora III - Ubi Français

Images Kryoflux from my personal collection. Three disks

Disks does not seems protected. Quality is bad Disk 2 and 3 have non recoverable errors.

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F29 Retaliator

Images SCP from Atari Forum

Disk 1

Disk 2

Quality is bad error beyond recovery

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Falcon

Images Kryoflux from Atari Forum

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x

Images Kryoflux + SCP from my personal collection

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Images Kryoflux + SCP from my personal collection

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