Re: Question about disk images

["Sean Fahey" <sean.fahey@a2central.com.remove-nuv-this>]

  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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