Re: Ultima, ADT and Mockingboard Problems

[schmidtd <schmidtd@my-deja.com>]

On Jan 9, 1:31 am, greathieroph...@gmail.com wrote:
> 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.
No, the Duodisk doesn't have any incompatibility issues.

> 2.  Bad images - They work just fine on AppleWin.

Or a faulty transfer.

> 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.

ADTPro will completely stomp on whatever was on the disk before, so it
doesn't really matter what was on the disk to begin with.

> 4.  Disk encoding beyond ADT's abilities - And yet the games appear to
> function normally in other ways.

If they're .DSK images, that wouldn't be the issue.  If they are .NIB
images, then that's definitely a concern.  But you probably wouldn't
get as far as you have so far if that were the case.