Hi all,
This is mostly curiosity than anything else. I went to run an old game of my youth - we've talked about it here before, "Avventura nel Castello", an Italian text adventure game. The author, Colombini (Erix here), removed the copy protection some years ago and published the game as freeware.
Unfortunately, I can run the game from my Floppy Emu but if I copy the disk on a physical media using Locksmith, it gives an error while loading or manages to load a bit and then gives an error on the main menu.
I've tried many discs, 2 Apple //c and one Apple //e.
The drive makes a weird noise and then there's an error.
I do remember playing that game on my Apple //e when I first got that computer but back then I didn't have a FEMU so I used ATDPro. Am I doing something wrong or is there something with that particular game? Maybe the FEMU doesn't like it for some reasons?
The game can be downloaded here: https://www.erix.it/retro.html
The link is here: https://www.erix.it/retro/cast2001.zip
The image is called C101.dsk in the Zip file.
Thanks!
Tony
I don't think Locksmith is a very reliable tool when working with disk images. It manipulated disk drives directly if I recall.
If you want to transfer it to physical media then ADTPro is a far better tool. Or AppleSauce if you can find one.
Also, given the age of both disk drives and the diskettes themselves, every diskette should be treated with suspicion. There is a pretty good chance that the diskette itself is bad, or has mould growth on it, which will foul the heads on the disk drive and make reading (and writing) impossible.