Apple emulation problems (The SunRaycer Saga)

["Mike Ching" <kulasoft@verizon.net>]

This was posted over at comp.emulators.apple2.  I'm also posting it here
in hope that someone can shed light on the problem.  If anybody wants to
take a look at the disk images, I can email it to them.

- mike

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The Sunraycer saga continues ....

The story so far (Short version) - For years I have been trying to play
SunRaycer again under emulation.  NONE of the disk images on Asimov or
any
other sites work with any Apple 2 emulators (and I have tried new and
old
versions of everything out there - AppleWin, Apple PC, Apple OASIS,
MESS,
etc, etc). So, I assumed that the disk images were bad.

However, Mike (from Kula Software -
http://www.angelfire.com/hi/kulasoft/ )
has been trying various things recently (thanks for all your hard work
Mike
!!), and he transferred working Sunraycer disks over to the PC as DSK
(not
NIB via SST !!) and then back again to the Apple ][ as DSK, and they
booted
fine on the Apple ][, but still would NOT work under the any of the
Apple ][ emulators out there (AppleWin, Apple PC, Apple OASIS, MESS,
etc,
etc).

So, the disks must be using some sneaky or undocumented feature at boot.

There are 2 ways to fix this - fix the disk images or ammend the
emulators to support whatever is happening.  Seeing it is only 2 disks
in this boat so far, I reckon fixing the disks may be the best / easiest
way forward.

Does anyone out there still know / remember enough about Apple ][ disk
formats / hacking to see what's going on with the disks ?

If I email you the DSK images, can you take a look and see what is going
on and try and find a fix / work-a-round for the problem so that the
disks work?

All the best,

Mike "Moose" O'Malley
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