Ramdisks and Test Drive II

[herbertf@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Herbert Fung)]

Previously Clayten Hamacher wrote:
 
>Also, it recognizes the ram disk as a bootable disk but I can't seem to
>get it to boot.. This also happens when setting the boot slot to Ram
>Disk in the control panel. What files do I need to have on it and what
>do I need to set for it to boot properly?
 
You need to format the ram disk before you can boot off of it. You also
need ProDOS on it as well.
 
>P.S. On a slightly related topic (ramdisks).. I was playing Test Drive 2
>which my friend brought over and getting fed up with the HUGE delays we
>decided to put it on the ram-disk, I made an 800k ram disk and copied it
>all over and renamed the ramdisk and tried quitting to the main
>executable and prodos more than once, both times it got part way into
>the load and said 'memory fragmentation error' and something about being
>unable to repair it and then it would freeze. If I booted with a ram
>disk active at all (even with a different name) I would get the same
>error, does anyone have any ideas why?
>
>(The ram disk was set to 1meg and 800k on the two occasions I tried this
>so there was memory left for TD2.)
 
I've talked to some of the people at Distinctive Software when I used to
live in Vancouver about this problem and the guy told me that it was an
"archiac copy protection scheme". There's no way around this. The only
other way to play TDII is to make an 800k partition on a hard drive and
install TDII on it. I never bothered to do this and since it was so
tedious I never played the game more that lets say 10 times.
 
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