Talk:Alcohol 120%

Deletion and Content
AfD Page The discussion about deletion has demonstrated that the article belongs, but needs to be cleaned up to make its significance clear. User BenWhitey said, "I added the reference to Alcohol 120 winning the Epsilon Award 2006 by the European Shareware Conference, which seems to be somewhat notable. It is sponsored by notable companies/organizations including: Avangate, Digital River, Infacta, Microsoft, Plimus, Shareware Promotions, Software Marketing Resource, and Tucows." This notability could perhaps go in the article text. V-pizz 21:34, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

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Has the article really been listed for deletion? --GatesPlusPlus 15:58, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

The article reads like a corporate flyer

I guess its informational... but yea, real bad NPOV problems. I'm not too familiar with it though, not sure how to balance it. King 10:43, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

This is nothing but an advertisement
"What makes it differ the most from Nero is that it uses the latest technology to constantly develop and improve by adding new features to maintain its performance and stability." I don't have a Windows machine to run this software on, so I couldn't rewrite this article. Can an Alcohol 120% user please have a look at this page and make it a little less like an advertisement?


 * Article was edited. Shawnc 18:28, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Alcohol runs under Wine.

Well I'll consider editing it since I use Alcohol quite frequently and I HATE Nero (which probably doesn't help). But deleting this page is just dumb. It needs some rewording to be sure, but Alcohol is a significant enough program to have its own Wikipedia page. Kestrel 23:33, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Alcohol and Nero both have their uses. I use both

Could someone please elaborate and explain the uses of Alcohol 120%, like in laymen terms. I read the article and found it hardly useful, i resorted googling the info i was looking for. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.103.11.60 (talk) 09:25, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Possible deletion musings
I've only just come across this article/program as I came across a .mdf file that I wanted to open, came to Wikipedia to find out what the hell it was and according to its disambiguation page it is the proprietary file format for Alcohol 120%. I guess overall I didn't need this article though, simply the .mdf disambig page nod would have been enough to help me find how to open my file. aLii 23:56, 19 January 2007 (UTC)


 * http://cdemu.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/cdemu/trunk/libmirage/src/parsers/ has the format information. Too bad there's not a public domain document describing the format.   Provided for those that come across this discussion later.  JWhiteheadcc (talk) 19:20, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

"blacklisting" result in a ruined cd burner?
Apparently, the drivers for my cd burner blacklisted Alchohol 120%, so that the next time the drive was used, something in the mechanics made it impossible to burn CDs - predominantly - but it would still read OK.
 * That's just your rootkit added kindly by the makers of your game or such. ;)

Fair use rationale for Image:A120 logo.png
Image:A120 logo.png is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in Wikipedia articles constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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Softpedia Certification

 * *Softpedia "100% CLEAN" Award 

This is not a software award. Rather, it's a certification given to some of the software listed on Softpedia, after they have been tested and reviewed by the softpedia staff. I'm removing this now. 124.43.211.220 18:14, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia in hibernation?
As of today, the latest Alcohol version is 1.9.6.5429. But I will not change that in the article to leave it as a demonstration that it is generally not a good idea to write anything in an article that is likely to change soon anyway. --217.232.249.184 21:02, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia in 1856?
According to the "Sources and References" tag: "This article has been tagged since April 1856."89.165.143.40 13:41, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Version history
I believe that this article should have a version history for alcohol 120%, 52% and 52% Free Edition, noting things like which version is the last to run under certain operating systems 9x for example. I have been trying to find the relevant information and if I do I will try and add this section, if someone else is able to though it would be great. 79.76.203.172 (talk) 16:14, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

PSX/PS2 Backups?
It can also create images of PlayStation and PlayStation 2 file systems.

This kinda implies that it is possible to create working backups of psx/ps2-discs that acutal run a unmodded consoles. Well, that's simply not true, A120% can't do it (nor any other tool of such kind). Ingnoring modchips, the disc-protection is still unbroken, and will possible remain so forever. Contrary, copying gamediscs (even libcrypted ones) that run on chipped console is quite trival, i did this 15 years ago on a crappy HP Surestore 2x (!) with clonecd; any other burning tool can do it nowadays as well.

Furthermore, it doesn't even do a particular good job on dumping mixed-mode cds (a lot of psx-games used additional cdda-tracks for background music). Like most other burning tools, it doesn't check for audiotrack offsets, which results, simply spoken, in changing the position of the data on the disc. A chipped console won't mind though, still is not a faithfull backup. Hence an A120% image of a psx-cd isn't even far related to a "true" 1:1 copy.

--77.177.19.10 (talk) 15:33, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Why 52?
Abc41 (talk) 13:23, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

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Malware warnings?
Following the links provided here, that the Alcohol Soft website and then proceeding to the download section there, raises a Malware warning in my browser. Can this be addressed? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:E2:3743:4800:9D4B:FE78:902:7D62 (talk) 16:50, 3 July 2019 (UTC)