Re: Question about disk images

["schmidtd" <schmidtd@my-deja.com>]

magnusfalkirk wrote:
> 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?

Any of several reasons, in increasing order of likelihood:
- dirty drive head
- defective media
- IIe/II+ incompatibilities
- bad serial transfer
- OSX rxtx driver trouble
- bugs in ADTPro

Somewhere in the middle there is the possibility of trying to transfer
.nib images.  If the disk images you have are in any way copy
protected, it's unlikely that they will work when reconstituted to
diskettes.

I've gotten the old MacADT to work on my iMac by having my Keyspan
adapter pretend to be the "printer" port.  (This is that same adapter
that we both have, the one with two round serial connectors.)  I can
then do 5-1/4" disk transfers the old fashioned way.  I did that
exercise to prove to myself that the rxtx driver isn't working 100% for
OSX for older Keyspan adapters.  But you might try that route to see if
the problem is in fact serial and/or ADTPro related.