schmidtd wrote:
On Jan 24, 12:46 pm, "magnusfalkirk" <dean.pha...@gmail.com> wrote:It looks like I might have to try and find an original copy of Might and Magic II, since the only copies I can find to download are nib images and I guess those have the copy protection still on them and that doesn't copy over to a the real disk copy.A minor untruth. :-) You can in fact transfer .NIB images successfully. It's a much more involved process, but ADTPro and SST can get you there. Full instructions from Moose O'malley are here, if this giant link works: http://www.infocom.cqu.edu.au/Staff/Michael_O_malley/web/download/ADT_SST_Copy_%5D%5B+_DDD_BCopy_Locksmith_Autonum_Renum__Mooses_Disk.txt Here is a tinyurl to the same place: http://tinyurl.com/yojkgw
I think you have misread there, NIB can't be transferred to real disks using SST. The other way is ok, from real disk to NIB, as Moose describes. It would be nice if people could post SST transfer disks instead of NIB... Or the emulators would start using a new disk format that was based on the information on the SST disks...
In my ignorance I tried it. I had a set of NIB that worked in an emulator (while the DSK didn't). I transferred the NIB to a real disk using SST and adt and SST again on the two disk. It made disks ok but they weren't readable. I asked help here and I got the understanding that this was so because the disks missed sync parts. The sync parts were left out of the NIB file because they are not needed for the emulator. Real disks don't work without them.
The actual problem I had (as I described in my other post in this thread) was that DSK image doesn't contain the volume number so it will in the emulator be whatever the emulator defaults to and transfered by adt will make it whatever the boot disk had put on the floppy. The NIB OTOH does contain the volume number. This is why the DSK fails while the NIB works... Priming the real floppy with the correct volume number fixed the problem the DSK worked after all (on real disks).
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