Re: Looking for directions on how to backup The Bilestoad

[BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday, March 20, 2013 6:11:32 PM UTC-5, sicklittlemonkey wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 20, 2013 6:25:34 PM UTC+13, roger....@gmail.com wrote:
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> > It's the "pursuit aesthetic" bug I have with some things.  ... I was thrilled to see an intro to the game that I'd never seen before.   
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> I totally agree! Thanks so much for buying this and involving the community.
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> You said your goal is to back it up. To do this you need to know which tracks it's using etc, so you really need to boot code trace it or image it to a file and send that to the gurus here to work on it. Boot code tracing is much easier with an emulator, which makes getting a NIB image up and running much easier too.
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> Usually I use SST but Antoine's "i'm fEDD up" looks easier to use:
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> http://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/products/apple2/imfEDDup/index.html
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> Using either of those you could capture whole and half tracks and someone here can get it working and then identify how to copy it so you can make your backup.
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> Cheers,
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> Nick.

Another thing you could do is boot the game with the cover of the drive removed so that we can see where it is seeking.  If the game is single-load it probably doesn't seek the whole disk.  Other forensic experts (oh heck, I'll just call them our residential krackers ;-) might be able to tell if it is a spiral or half track scheme by how the head moves.

-B