BurstNibbler

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As BurstNibbler is a copy program its use is limited in an emulated environment. It only gets useful again if running from a real floppy disk on a real C64/C128 system. Thus either a G64 is written back with a specialized hardware to a disk or a 1541 Ultimate is used with a real C64 that is able to mount a G64 image in a virtual 1541 drive.

Source 1

Property	Data
Title	BurstNibbler 1.8
Publisher and/or Developer	EuroSystems
Year	1987
Disk(s)	1
Number of Index Holes	1
Media Type	5.25 DSDD
Retail, Budget or Compilation (with name)	Retail
Country of Release	DE
Language(s)	English
Platform	C64
NTSC or PAL	PAL/NTSC
Protection	Burstnibbler_Protection
Working?	Partially, Burstnibbler 1.8 works, Turbonibbler 4.0 has a corrupt protection signature - not fixed in G64. For working Turbonibbler 4.0 see source 2.
Archived	12 Mar 2023 parser/enigma provided by MrCrayfish@F64
Verified by	enigma/parser

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  Side 0

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  Side 1

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  Disk Front

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  Disk Back

Disk contains Burstnibbler 1.8, Turbonibbler 4.0, Turbonibbler 2.2, Burstnibbler 128.

Streams

File:Streams BurstNibbler V18 QSNr9127083 2L Eurosystems mrcrayfish.zip

File:Streams BurstNibbler V18 QSNr9127083 2L Eurosystems mrcrayfish redump.zip

NIB / NB2

File:NIB NB2 BurstNibbler V18 QSNr9127083 2L Eurosystems mrcrayfish.zip

G64

File:BurstNibbler V18 QSNr9127083 2L Eurosystems mrcrayfish s0.g64

Source 2

Property	Data
Title	BurstNibbler 1.9
Publisher and/or Developer	EuroSystems
Year	1988
Disk(s)	1
Number of Index Holes	1
Media Type	5.25 DSDD
Retail, Budget or Compilation (with name)	Retail
Country of Release	DE
Language(s)	English
Platform	C64
NTSC or PAL	PAL/NTSC
Protection	Burstnibbler_Protection
Working?	Partially, Burstnibbler 1.9 works, Turbonibbler 4.0 works, Filemaster has a corrupt protection signature but was repaired in the G64 image.
Archived	12 Mar 2023 parser/enigma provided by MrCrayfish@F64
Verified by	enigma/parser

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  Side 0

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  Side 1

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  Disk Front

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  Disk Front with Sleeve

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  Disk Back

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  Disk Back with Sleeve

Disk contains Burstnibbler 1.9, Turbonibbler 4.0, Turbonibbler 2.2, Filemaster, Burstnibbler 128.

Streams

File:Streams BurstNibbler V19 QSNr21048219 2L Eurosystems mrcrayfish.zip

File:Streams BurstNibbler V19 QSNr21048219 2L Eurosystems redump mrcrayfish.zip

NIB / NB2

File:NIB NB2 BurstNibbler V19 QSNr21048219 2L Eurosystems mrcrayfish.zip

G64

File:BurstNibbler V19 QSNr21048219 2L Eurosystems mrcrayfish.g64

Source 3

Property	Data
Title	BurstNibbler 1.3
Publisher and/or Developer	EuroSystems
Year	1986
Disk(s)	1
Number of Index Holes	1
Media Type	5.25 DSDD
Retail, Budget or Compilation (with name)	Retail
Country of Release	DE
Language(s)	English, german manual
Platform	C64
NTSC or PAL	PAL/NTSC
Protection	Burstnibbler_Protection
Working?	Yes
Archived	13 Dec 2025 enigma, provided by @rndt@F64
Verified by	enigma

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  Side 0

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  Disk Front

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  Disk Back

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  Burst Nibbler 1.3

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  Turbo Nibbler 4.0

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  Turbo Nibbler 2.2

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  File Master 1.0

Disk contains Burst Nibbler 1.3, Turbo Nibbler 4.0, Turbo Nibbler 2.2, File Master 1.0

Streams

File:Streams Eurosystems BurstNibbler1.3 FileMaster1.0 arndt.zip

G64

File:Eurosystems BurstNibbler1.3 FileMaster1.0 arndt s0.g64

Disk side 1 is empty.

Manual

Manual (german)

Source 4

Property	Data
Title	BurstNibbler 1.9
Publisher and/or Developer	EuroSystems
Year	1986
Disk(s)	1
Number of Index Holes	1
Media Type	5.25 DSDD
Retail, Budget or Compilation (with name)	Retail
Country of Release	DE
Language(s)	English
Platform	C64
NTSC or PAL	PAL/NTSC
Protection	Burstnibbler_Protection
Working?	Yes
Archived	15 Mar 2026 enigma/parser, provided by @rndt@F64
Verified by	enigma/parser

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  Side 0

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  Disk Front

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  Disk Back

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  Disk Front with Sleeve

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  Disk Back with Sleeve

Disk contains Burst Nibbler 1.9, Turbo Nibbler 4.0, Turbo Nibbler 2.2, File Master 1.0, Burst Nibbler 128

Nr 13048127

Streams

File:Streams BurstNibbler1.9 arndt.zip

G64

File:BurstNibbler1.9 arndt s0.g64

Disk side 1 is empty.

Source 5

Property	Data
Title	BurstNibbler
Publisher and/or Developer	EuroSystems
Year	1987 - 1988
Disk(s)	1
Number of Index Holes	1
Media Type	5.25 DSDD
Retail, Budget or Compilation (with name)	Retail
Country of Release	US, EU ?
Language(s)	English
Platform	C64
NTSC or PAL	PAL/NTSC
Protection	Burstnibbler_Protection
Working?	Yes
Archived	?
Verified by	markusC64 @F64

See tools section for G64Conv template file required for copy protection reconstruction using the D64 images as source to generate a working G64.

File:Bnib15.d64
From original of markusC64.

File:Bnib17.d64

File:Bnib18.reconstructed-from-bn15.d64

File:Bnib19.d64

From Datel source stream:
File:Datelutil.d64

File:Datelutil2.d64

Streams

File:Burstnibbler 1.9 Streams dsw.zip
Analysis: Stream contains a cracked version

File:Burstnibbler 1.9 Streams eurosystems 1987.zip
Analysis: Stream contains a cracked version

File:Burstnibbler 1.9 Streams eurosystems 1988.zip
Analysis: Stream contains actually BurstNibbler 1.8

File:Burstnibbler 1.9 Streams octagon.zip
Analysis: Stream contains a cracked version

File:BurstNibbler18 Streams Datel sncboom2k.zip
Analysis: Sectors on track 10 seem to have read errors (conversion with dtc.exe)

Tools

Template file for G64Conv to convert a D64 BurstNibbler image to a G64 image. The copy protection is reconstructed by applying the template file.

File:Bnib-ultimate.txt

Example command to apply template:

g64conv bnib-ultimate.txt bnib18.g64 bnib18.reconstructed-from-bn15.d64

Track 10 for reconstruction was taken from BurstNibbler 1.5 source.