Re: Question about disk images

["William Garber" <willy46pa@garberstreet.com>]

"Sean Fahey" <sean.fahey@a2central.com.remove-nuv-this> wrote in message 45B519A6.3235.usenet_csa2@a2central.com">news:45B519A6.3235.usenet_csa2@a2central.com...
:   To: magnusfalkirk
:
:
:  > Greetings,
:  >
:  > I've finally gotten the correct USB to serial adapter for My Mac Mini,
:  > along with the corresponding serial cable hooked up to the SSC in my
:  > IIe, and am starting to transfer disk images back to real disks using
:  > David Schmidt's excellent ADTPro program. My question for anyone out
:  > there who might know is this, why is it that some games that run fine
:  > in a emulator refuse to run when transferred back to disk? At least
:  > four that come immediately to mind are the first Wizardry, the first
:  > Bard's Tale and both Might and Magic games.
:
: There are a number of reasons... but let's try the easiest one first. Some
: games (I think Wizardry is this way) expect the disk to be write-protected.
:
: If the notch is there, it knows it's a copy and therefore possibly pirated.
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Good point, Sean. I didn't think of that.

William Garber
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