Re: question: recovering 'Pinball Construction Set' user games

["John Van Winkle" <appleiieman@charter.net>]

Have you tried looking at them with CiderPress?  If not, I would suggest
d/ling it and trying to look at the .dsk images with it.  Then you might
have a better idea of what is wrong.  Also, this disk could be copy
protected.  Try checking the drive speed.  If they are slow, could be why
you are having read problems.  Use Copy II plus 9.1 to check the drive speed
with.


<sam@rinkworks.com> wrote in message
1103347728.482797.93500@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com">news:1103347728.482797.93500@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Hi.  Back in the 80s, I made several games with the Pinball
> Construction Set.
> Years later, I'd love to play these games on my Apple II emulator (or,
> heck, even the real thing) but I've run into a problem:  there appears
> to be no easy way to get a CATALOG of the games saved on a Pinball
> Construction Set data disk.  Booting them just tells me I should insert
> the "boot disk" and reboot.
>
> Furthermore, I can't seem to get a CATALOG from within Pinball
> Construction Set itself.  I hit the 'disk' icon and try to load a game,
> but I have to type in the name of the game -- I don't see a file
> listing option anywhere.  It's been 20 years.  I have no idea what I
> named the pinball games I made with it.
>
> I still have the Apple II data disks.  They've been transferred to my
> PC twice, once as .dsk images and once as .nib images.  I tried
> extracting all the English words embedded in these files, but nothing
> turned up.  Any other ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance to all who can help.
>