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|    Gary McCulloch to Tristan    |
|    Re: Making a .d71 out of two .d64 images    |
|    31 Jan 20 17:49:12    |
      From: nospam.Gary.McCulloch@f50.n154.z1.binkp.net              On Fri 31-Jan-2020 12:41p, Tristan Miller@3:770/3.0 wrote:       TM> Dear all,              TM> I'd like to play Ultima V in VICE. This game came on four double-sided       TM> disks, which entailed a lot of disk-swapping. But if memory serves, the       TM> C128 version of the game supported up to two drives, and if the drives       TM> were 1571s, the game would automatically read the correct side of the       TM> disk for you. So with two 1571s, instead of one 1541, you could cut the       TM> number of disk swaps by factor of 4.              TM> The problem is that the only disk images of the game I have are .d64       TM> images of the eight individual sides. Is there any way of combining two       TM> .d64 images into a single .d71 image? Or is my only option to buy a       TM> floppy drive capable of reading double-sided disks and the requisite       TM> imaging software, and then manually re-image all the physical disks?               Can you put them all on a .d4m image? Use DirMaster and give it a try.               -Spitfire Inc presents 2 Unique Systems...               Reign of Fire II BBS        C-Net DS-2 BETA System - rof.cnet64.com:6400        Reign of Fire BBS        C-Net Amiga Pro BETA System - rofbbs.cnetbbs.net:2300 - 931-494-9100        * C-Net/5              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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