Re: Game successfully run ...?-- Alternate Reality

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Jeremiah Swinson writes ...
> 
> I am curious if anyone has had any success running the game "Alternate
> Reality"

   -- Guess you mean Alternate Reality: The Dungeon --


> under any Apple II emulator for the Macintosh platform.  Most
> of the emulators I've tried have resulted in failure at various points
> in the game (most often right at the beginning).  I managed to get
> Bernie ][ the Rescue to get further into the game than any other
> emulator, but I was not able to perform any game saves.
> 
> It almost seems that saving data from this game does something
> "special" with the floppy drive which the disk image formats just
> can't handle...  Does this make sense?

     Yes; but, it seems unlikely with AR-D. Original character disks are not
copy protected; so, there is no reason for the program to do anything weird in
terms of format when writing to a Char disk image.

     Something which can lead to confusion when using disk images is that, when
prompted to insert a disk, you may, sometimes, have to insert it even if it is
already present.


> 
> If you've successfully played Alternate Reality (and have successfully
> saved your character multiple times) using any Apple II emulator for
> the Mac, plese let me know how you did it (what emulator, what disk
> image format, etc...)!  :)
> 
> Suffereing from Alternate Reality withdrawal,
 ....

     If your current copy of the game just will not work correctly, you could
try the one on TikTok ( http://abandonwarering.com/tiktok/ ).  The file is
named  "AlternateReality_TheDungeon_new.zip". It's Disk 1 includes a
deprotection patch from Computist which _may_ make a difference.



Rubywand