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RAM Drive + Wiz I



I have no experiance with PRODos, so please forgive me...

I am in the market for a RAM expansion card for my Apple //c. 
(see my post in c.s.a2.marketplace).  One reason I want it is
so that I can use the RAM as a RAM drive under PRODOS.

Would it be possible to copy the Wizardry I scenario disk onto the 
RAM drive.  I have noticed that the disk is access quite a bit during
the game (esp during combat) and I want to minimize the use of my internal
drive.  I'm thinking that by putting the scenario disk on the ram drive,
I can save my floppy + speed the game up a little.

Anyway, I understand that Wiz I is not a PRODOS program and that it is
copy protected (the boot is anyway).  Is my idea possible?  Of course 
I am assuming that when I was done playing, I would just copy the 
contents of the RAM disk back onto a magnetic disk...

I remember reading somewhere that someone "hacked" Infocom games to 
keep them from constantly reading the disk.  (or did this person 
write there own version of DOS).

Thanks in advance,

-Chris