Re: Question about disk images

["William Garber" <willy46pa@garberstreet.com>]

"magnusfalkirk" <dean.phares@gmail.com> wrote in message 1169498100.359156.176210@q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com">news:1169498100.359156.176210@q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
: William Garber wrote:
: > "magnusfalkirk" <dean.phares@gmail.com> wrote in message 1169495718.744634.11920@q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com">news:1169495718.744634.11920@q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
: > : Greetings,
: > :
: > : I've finally gotten the correct USB to serial adapter for My Mac Mini,
: > : along with the corresponding serial cable hooked up to the SSC in my
: > : IIe, and am starting to transfer disk images back to real disks using
: > : David Schmidt's excellent ADTPro program. My question for anyone out
: > : there who might know is this, why is it that some games that run fine
: > : in a emulator refuse to run when transferred back to disk? At least
: > : four that come immediately to mind are the first Wizardry, the first
: > : Bard's Tale and both Might and Magic games.
: > :
: > : I was frustrated enough by this, after downloading the first Might and
: > : Magic and Wizardry 1 from several different sites and never getting
: > : either to run after transferring them back to the IIe, that I finally
: > : went to Ebay and won a copy of Might and Magic. I'm seriously thinking
: > : of trying to find copies of the other games through there as well.
: > :
: > : Anyone have any ideas what's up?
: >
: >
: > It would be nice to know the procedure that
: > you are following to transfer the disks.
: >
: > Sorry for the sarcasm, but, your question is
: > like calling the doctor and saying "I don't
: > feel well, any ideas?"
: >
: > It's possible that you are not transferring
: > them properly.
: >
: > William Garber
: > Email Address - willy46pa@garberstreet.com
: > Alt. Email - willy46pa@comcast.net
: > Web address - http://www.garberstreet.com
:
: I've got something similar to the Lindy adapter that you can read about
: here: http://www.rm.com/Primary/Products/Product.asp?cref=PD294659
: plugged into my Mac. Unfortunately the Lindy driver wouldn't work with
: it so, after searching around the Web for a while, I found this driver
: http://www.serialgear.com/USB-Serial-adapter-drivers-windows-mac-linux.cfm
: that did. On the Apple IIe side I have a DBM25 to DBF9 cable plugged
: into my Super Serial card. Then, of course, the DBF9 end of the cable
: is plugged into the Adapter. I successfully used this setup to transfer
: the Apple II ADTPro program to the IIe and save it to disk.
:
: Once I had ADTPro up and running on the IIe I started transferring disk
: images. Project Space Station runs fine, as does Earth Orbit Stations,
: Bard's Tale II - Destiny Knight, Sundog, Star Trek:First Contact, Super
: Stellar Trek, Star Trek Tactical Operation Simulator, Jungle Hunt and a
: few others.
:
: Does that give you a better idea of what I'm dealing with?
:
: Dean


Yes, Sir. Give me links to the ones you have trouble
with and I'll transfer them by 1.44MB disk and convert
them with DiskMaker8 and see if they work that way.

William Garber
Email Address - willy46pa@garberstreet.com
Alt. Email - willy46pa@comcast.net
Web address - http://www.garberstreet.com