I have discovered the ADT Pro program and have used it to transfer
disk images from my PC to my Apple. Although I have yet to send many
disks, (copying over audio cables is slow), the games I have sent work
mostly fine. Ultima IV works perfectly with a (GSE Reactive)
Mockingboard, but Ultima III and V have problems. In Ultima III, I
can get past the Mockingboard setup only by not selecting a
Mockingboard. Selecting a Mockingboard, which I have installed, only
results in the drive making nasty noises and some random text
characters on the screen. Ultima V starts up correctly, but will not
display the "Activate Music" in the main menu, as though I were
running it on a II+!
Here are my Apple II system specs:
Apple //e Enhanced Platinum
Slot 0 : Extended 64K RAM
Slot 1 : Empty
Slot 2 : Super Serial Card
Slot 3 : Mouse Card
Slot 4 : Mockingboard
Slot 5 : Empty
Slot 6 : 5.25 Controller Card
Slot 7 : Empty
I am using a Duodisk for 5.25 disk drives. The Apple II passes all
diagnostic tests. I have three theories why the Mockingboard routines
on these games fail:
1. Duodisk incompatibility - I do not believe the Duodisk's
compatiblity issues were so severe.
2. Bad images - They work just fine on AppleWin.
3. Unwiped Disks - I had previously written other disk images before
writing the current disk images, but I did format the disks again
before writing the new images using ADT Pro's Apple II client.
4. Disk encoding beyond ADT's abilities - And yet the games appear to
function normally in other ways.