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Re: Ultima 1 (1986 reissue version) woes
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