Re: Question about disk images

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

William Garber wrote:
> "magnusfalkirk" <dean.phares@gmail.com> wrote in message 1169498100.359156.176210@q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com">news:1169498100.359156.176210@q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> : William Garber wrote:
> : > "magnusfalkirk" <dean.phares@gmail.com> wrote in message 1169495718.744634.11920@q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com">news:1169495718.744634.11920@q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> : > : 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.
> : > :
> : > : I was frustrated enough by this, after downloading the first Might and
> : > : Magic and Wizardry 1 from several different sites and never getting
> : > : either to run after transferring them back to the IIe, that I finally
> : > : went to Ebay and won a copy of Might and Magic. I'm seriously thinking
> : > : of trying to find copies of the other games through there as well.
> : > :
> : > : Anyone have any ideas what's up?
> : >
> : >
> : > It would be nice to know the procedure that
> : > you are following to transfer the disks.
> : >
> : > Sorry for the sarcasm, but, your question is
> : > like calling the doctor and saying "I don't
> : > feel well, any ideas?"
> : >
> : > It's possible that you are not transferring
> : > them properly.
> : >
> : > William Garber
> : > Email Address - willy46pa@garberstreet.com
> : > Alt. Email - willy46pa@comcast.net
> : > Web address - http://www.garberstreet.com
> :
> : I've got something similar to the Lindy adapter that you can read about
> : here: http://www.rm.com/Primary/Products/Product.asp?cref=PD294659
> : plugged into my Mac. Unfortunately the Lindy driver wouldn't work with
> : it so, after searching around the Web for a while, I found this driver
> : http://www.serialgear.com/USB-Serial-adapter-drivers-windows-mac-linux.cfm
> : that did. On the Apple IIe side I have a DBM25 to DBF9 cable plugged
> : into my Super Serial card. Then, of course, the DBF9 end of the cable
> : is plugged into the Adapter. I successfully used this setup to transfer
> : the Apple II ADTPro program to the IIe and save it to disk.
> :
> : Once I had ADTPro up and running on the IIe I started transferring disk
> : images. Project Space Station runs fine, as does Earth Orbit Stations,
> : Bard's Tale II - Destiny Knight, Sundog, Star Trek:First Contact, Super
> : Stellar Trek, Star Trek Tactical Operation Simulator, Jungle Hunt and a
> : few others.
> :
> : Does that give you a better idea of what I'm dealing with?
> :
> : Dean
>
>
> Yes, Sir. Give me links to the ones you have trouble
> with and I'll transfer them by 1.44MB disk and convert
> them with DiskMaker8 and see if they work that way.
>
> William Garber
> Email Address - willy46pa@garberstreet.com
> Alt. Email - willy46pa@comcast.net
> Web address - http://www.garberstreet.com

Bill,

Here's a link to the disk images for Bard's Tale:
http://www.lampefamily.us/jonathan/ and here's one for Wizardry:
http://www.geocities.com/wizardrygame/frames.html and Might and Magic
Book 1, as far as I know a regular dsk image, is here:
http://www.emuasylum.com/index.php?page=roms&type=list&system=Apple%20II&letter=M
The images of Might and Magic Book 2 might all be nib so that could be
my trouble with it.

Thanks,
Dean