Re: Question about disk images

["magnusfalkirk" <dean.phares@gmail.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