Re: Ultima 5 to HD?

[dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <45erfn$53v@news.cc.ucf.edu>,
Anthony Martino Iii <am20038@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu> wrote:
> A while back I bought Ultima 5.  More recently I acquired a hard-drive, 
> and tried loading it hoping to avoid all the disk-swapping.  
> Unfortunatly, it will not recognize any non-5.25 disk drive.

How did you get it off a 5.25" drive at all?  The boot disk is copy
protected.

I wrote a program to enable me to take a backup copy of the game,
which works fine.

I also tried modifying the "DINKEYDOS" operating system to work on a
pair of 3.5" disks, and almost got it working - the game starts fine,
but hangs after a few moves.  My 3.5" version has a subdirectory for
each of the eight original disks.  The map files are stored in a file
in each subdirectory, rather than being an invisible series of blocks
at the end of each disk.

I haven't had the inclination to investigate why it didn't work
properly, as I didn't particularly like the game anyway.
-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz
Snail mail: P.O. Box 27-103, Wellington, New Zealand