Re: New game disks?

[mojoehand <jgray@zianet.com>]

On Nov 11, 11:09 am, "N.N. Thayer" <nntha...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 11, 11:29 am, mojoehand <jg...@zianet.com> wrote:
>
> > > There is a nibblized image of the Olympic Decathlon disk online, but
> > > not of the IDSI Shuffleboard disk.
>
> > Where is Olympic Decathlon?
>
> It's at Asimov.  Original disk:
>
> ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/images/games/sports/decathalo...
>
> (The .nib extension is missing in the packaged file for some reason.)
>
> Cracked disk:
>
> ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/images/games/sports/OlympicDe...
>
> Technically, Shuffleboard is also there, but not in its original
> form:
>
> ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/images/games/file_based/oneon...
>
> So for the sake of completeness I'd say it's worthwhile to get a rip
> of the real disk online as well.

I just uploaded MS_Olympic_Decathlon.nib to Asimov and sent a copy to
Bill Garber. The image boots under AppleWin and runs fine. I can not
say the same for IDSI Shuffleboard. The image I made does not boot
under AppleWin. It just hangs with the drive light on. For obvious
reasons, I didn't upload that image.