Re: Question about disk images

[Rob Greene <greener@charter.net>]

"magnusfalkirk" <dean.phares@gmail.com> wrote in 
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?

Seems like we have a lot of ideas!

My idea:  Did you try to make a SHK of the disk, and use ADT Pro to 
transfer a disk with the SHK file?  Then unshrink it on the Apple IIe.  
Kinda overkill.

Oh yeah, Wiz 1 needs a write-protect.  Don't remember that with M&M 
though.

I'm wondering if you're running into various disk orderings that the 
emulator is handling fine but ADT messes with...  

Good luck!
-Rob