Re: Flight Simulator Scenery Disks Available

[sirghoul@optonline.net]

On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 17:45:35 -0700 (PDT), btt071871@gmail.com wrote:

>I have been collecting FSII scenery disks because I could not find any
>for the Apple.  Also, the main version of FSII found on the web could
>not be used with scenery disks. I have unprotected version 2.0 of FSII
>and uploaded it to asimov.  I have also converted several scenery
>disks to normal DOS which can be used with the unprotected version.
>These are also on asimov.  The administrator has made a nice directory
>under images/games/simulations for these files.  I am in the process
>of scanning maps and documentation and will do my best to get them
>there as well.  Like many of you, I am only a part time apple ii
>collector/hobbyist.  So I cannot spend as much time trying these out
>as I would like.  It is not impossible that there are errors in these
>disks or the crack.

I've been working in a similar vein - on and off - with scanning in Apple software boxes, manuals, etc.

It's definitely a pain in the RAM to do.

Several issues of Computist magazine had info on converting FSII Scenery disks. Don't recall the issues off-hand......

If you know how to bit-copy them, and need copies of mine, I have Disks #'s 1,2,3,6,7, Japan

John.
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