Re: Question about disk images

["magnusfalkirk" <dean.phares@gmail.com>]

David,

I don't know if the problem might have been a bad disk or what but I
downloaded the Bard's Tale, again, from the site I listed and expanded
it. Then I used a new 5.25 disk to copy the Boot side and Character
side to. The Boot side booted up, just like before, and when I turned
it over to the Character side this time it ran like normal. So I'm not
sure what exactly fixed the problem but it is fixed.

Dean



schmidtd wrote:
> magnusfalkirk wrote:
> > So you where able to run Bard's Tale on the II without any trouble
> > after using ADTPro to transfer the disk image to it?  Which disk image
> > did you use to transfer?
>
> I used ADTPro 0.1.4 to transfer two disk images to my IIgs from a PC; I
> still don't have a working USB adapter for my Macs.  I got the images
> from the link you posted earlier; here's what it finally resolves to:
> http://www.lampefamily.us/jonathan/downloads/Apple2_BardsTale1.zip
>
> I transferred bt1_boot.dsk to boot, and bt1_char.dsk as the character
> disk.  I had ADTPro transfer them to a couple of random floppies I had
> lying around; both were most likely formatted by DOS, but one had
> recently housed a ProDOS image.  But that's not likely to be relevant.
> The character disk was accepted and it let me goof with the characters,
> add them to my party, and venture forth.  (To their eventual doom, as
> it turns out.)
>
> > So far every one I've downloaded and tried has
> > rejected the Character disk as not being the Character disk.
>
> Yep, that's pretty strange.  My next test would be to get a copy of
> MacADT (with standard DOS ADT at the Apple II end) and see if it is any
> more successful in creating you a character disk.