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   Tristan Miller to All   
   Making a .d71 out of two .d64 images   
   31 Jan 20 12:41:00   
   
   From: psychonaut@nothingisreal.com   
      
   Dear all,   
      
   I'd like to play Ultima V in VICE.  This game came on four double-sided   
   disks, which entailed a lot of disk-swapping.  But if memory serves, the   
   C128 version of the game supported up to two drives, and if the drives   
   were 1571s, the game would automatically read the correct side of the   
   disk for you.  So with two 1571s, instead of one 1541, you could cut the   
   number of disk swaps by factor of 4.   
      
   The problem is that the only disk images of the game I have are .d64   
   images of the eight individual sides.  Is there any way of combining two   
   .d64 images into a single .d71 image?  Or is my only option to buy a   
   floppy drive capable of reading double-sided disks and the requisite   
   imaging software, and then manually re-image all the physical disks?   
      
   Regards,   
   Tristan   
      
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