Re: Dark Crystal and Time Zone

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Tempest wrote:
> On Jan 18, 11:28 pm, schmidtd <schmi...@my-deja.com> wrote:
>
> > On Jan 18, 8:19 pm, Tempest <temp...@atariprotos.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Are there standard .dsk files for these games?  All I see in Asimov
> > > are .nib files which ADTPro does not like (it crashes it when I try to
> > > transfer the game).
> >
> > Well, it (ADTPro) shouldn't crash when transferring .NIBs, but they
> > are guaranteed to not work once they are transferred anyway.  You need
> > to run SST in reverse to build a disk out of a nib.  Some references:
> >
> > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.apple2/browse_frm/thread/860e...http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.apple2/browse_frm/thread/78ec...http://apple2.org.za/gswv/a2zine/Docs/SaltinesSuperTranscopyDocs.txt
>
>
> Ok I can try this tonight.  I'm surprised no one has posted the .dsk
> files for this.  Maybe I'm the only one playing on real hardware? :)

They are .nib images because either they are copy-protected and in
a non-standard format or because they use a non-default volumen number.

Making .dsk images that work would involve de-protecting the disks
and/or bypassing the volume number checks.

-michael

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