Re: Ultima 1 (1986 reissue version) woes

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

Either a failing nibble count or a difference in timing that results in a skewed sector placement within a track.  I suppose emulators can't handle that too well since they have a very fixed view of how the disk should work.

I was able to use the u1player disk image and save a game, so it's the format that is the issue and not the in-game save/restore.  Very very strange indeed.

With my new meta-cheat feature I can now search for and modify byte/word values and now I'm walking around Sosaria with maxed out HP and Food and have reflect armor and a phasor.  Ok, this renders the game pointless but I never got to see what space was like until now.  Wanna go to space... SPPAACCEEE!! (sorry, obligatory meme)

-B

On Wednesday, July 25, 2012 11:01:03 AM UTC-5, Michael J. Mahon wrote:
> Hot Rod <hotrod.apple2@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wednesday, July 25, 2012 12:04:44 AM UTC-5, BLuRry wrote:
> >> Actually it may be a false alarm -- when I went to load my game from the
> >> disk in the real machine it wouldn't read.  So it was very likely a
> >> really crappy old disk that bought the farm.
> >> 
> >> Putting that aside though, I can't create a new U1 player disk in
> >> the newer 1986 version -- it prompts me if I want to erase the
> >> non-prodos disk and then it reports a drive speed error.  Very strange. 
> >> Same goes for a prodos-formatted floppy.  So format doesn't work, at
> >> least not in Jace.  Has anyone formatted a ultima 1 player disk from AppleWin or Kegs?
> >> 
> > 
> > I just tried the DL crack in AppleWin 1.20.0, both with enhanced speed
> > and authentic speed, and I get the same "drive speed error."  Another
> > retro project to add to the list I guess...
> 
> Sounds like a failing nibble count...
> 
> -michael - NadaNet 3.1 and AppleCrate II: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon