Re: Question about disk images

[Knut Roll-Lund <kr-lund@nogarbage.online.no>]

magnusfalkirk wrote:
> 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?

One problem I ran into was the volume number. Some games require the 
disks to be numbered 1 2 3 (sierra). The volume number is put on the 
disk when formatted before ADT puts data on it. Here is the DOS 3.3 
command (I'm not too familiar with ProDOS yet)

INIT HELLO ,V1

volume number defaults to same as the boot disk.

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Knut
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