Re: Question about disk images

["magnusfalkirk" <dean.phares@gmail.com>]

Sean Fahey wrote:
> To: magnusfalkirk
>
>
>  > 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.
>
> There are a number of reasons... but let's try the easiest one first. Some
> games (I think Wizardry is this way) expect the disk to be write-protected.
>
> If the notch is there, it knows it's a copy and therefore possibly pirated.
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Sean,

Thanks for that comment, I had completely forgotten about that since
it's been several years since I played Wizardry on a II. I'll have to
put a write protect tab over the notch and check it again. Who knows
maybe that's the problem with all of them (if I'm lucky).

Dean