The Voice (from MUSE) uploaded to Asimov

[Hot Rod <hotrod.apple2@gmail.com>]

Hi,

After imaging the bulk of the disks I have, I ended up with a small handful that seem to either still be in DOS 3.2 format, or protected nibble copies (or both I suppose).

One of them was a copy of The Voice, written by Ed Zaron and from MUSE (1980).  At first I thought it was just a DOS 3.2 disk, which it was, but it wouldn't read using Copy ][+ set to DOS 3.2.  Well, kinda.  It was able to read the even sectors, but not the odd sectors.  So, I assumed it had some form of protection still on it.

Rather than mess with it, I poked around online to see if a copy was 'out there' for preservation, and I was somewhat surprised to not be able to locate one.  Could be that I just didn't incant the right search, but I came up empty for an image.

So then I made the assumption that this was clearly the last remaining copy on the planet and did the next most sensible thing - I put a write protect tab on it.  (Glad I saved all those little stickers all these years too!)  :)

Anyway, I thought maybe it wouldn't be too hard to convert it to DOS 3.3 and attempt to preserve it, so I set out to accomplish that.  The net was that you can hit Ctrl-C while it boots, enter monitor and just grab the RWTS ($B700-$BFFF). Using a regular DOS3.2 RWTS wouldn't work, and I didn't feel like hunting down the exact difference(s) for whatever they modified, so I just saved the modified DOS3.2 RWTS it used and fired up Advanced Demuffin.  That converted the disk OK (other than track0,sector0 of course), but leaves everything laid out in 13 sectors worth of data on 16 sector tracks.  I imaged that disk though, and then just copied the files to another DOS 3.3 disk image (with a fast DOS on it), and touched up the boot to run the correct start program like the original.  That is the image I then uploaded to Asimov.

It seems to work in AppleWin, but I didn't try actually recording anything.  I also didn't try saving stuff out to disk (not having recorded anything).  But the demo and Santa seem to work, and the editor seems to work with what's on disk.  At least the code and data are there if anyone else wants to explore it further.

Regards.
]HR