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Re: Ultima 1 (1986 reissue version) woes
On Wednesday, July 25, 2012 12:15:35 PM UTC-5, Hot Rod wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 25, 2012 11:30:58 AM UTC-5, BLuRry wrote:
> > 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.
> >
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> I kinda doubt it would be a nibble count, since this would be for creating a player disk. On a real Apple, are the resulting player disks copyable? (Would think so, to allow them to be backed up.)
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> It could be trying to write out a volume number, and not getting it read back. Might be timing, but other tools are able to write disks in the emulator.
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> Just have to look at the code...
I got a bizzare error from my emulator when it was trying to denibblize the data back to a DSK format while saving the track -- it was scanning for a marker but was unable to find it -- and I keep my logic a little loose so it was a bit of a surprise to see that. Strange thing is that the U1Player.dsk image from asimov works fine so you wouldn't expect it to need a NIB disk image.
It is very very odd. :-D
-B