How to make the Sierra DSK images work.

[mk_dubrow@no-spam.hotmail.com (Rob)]

I've been playing about with games I downloaded from
ftp.apple.asimov.net and I thought I would share this...

If you look thru the unsorted folder on asimov.net there are alot of
.dsk files that don't appear to work, King's Quest IV, leisure Suit
Larry, Space Quest, The Games Winter Edition, etc.  They actually do
work but you have to convert them to .NIB images and then change the
Volume Numbers  to 001, 002, 003, etc. using the Init program in Bag
of Tricks.

This is what I did for Leisure Suit Larry...
First make several copies of an existing .NIB image and rename the
files appropriately
- In AppleWin fire up Disk Muncher and load "Leisure Suit Larry 1 -
DIsk 1 - Front.dsk"  into Drive 1.  
- Load a blank.NIB in Drive 2
- Copy "Leisure Suit Larry 1 - DIsk 1 - Front.dsk" to  "Leisure Suit
Larry 1 - Disk 1 - Front.nib"

- Repeat for all six sides of Leisure Suit Larry.

- Now fire up Bag of Tricks and run the Init program.
- Load "Leisure Suit Larry 1 - Disk 1 - Front.nib" into Drive 1
- Make sure "Preserve Data" is set to Yes.
- Change the Volume Number to 001
- Press Return.  Bag of Trick will go thru and change the volume label
of the .NIB image to 001.

Repeat this process for "Leisure Suit Larry 1 - Disk 1 - Back.dsk"
only this time change the Volume Number to 002.

Repeat the process again for "Leisure Suit Larry 1 - Disk 2 -
Front.dsk" but change the Volume Number to 003

The same patern continues for the remaining sides of the games 

As far as I can tell  all Apple II Sierra Adventure games seem to
follow this same Volume Number pattern (Disk 1- Side 1 is 001, Disk
1-Side 2 is 002, Disk 2-Side 1 is 003, Disk 2-Side 2 is 004, Disk
3-Side 1 is 005, ....Disk 6-Side 1 is 011, ...etc. 

Now if only someone would upload more Sierra Adventure games... :-)