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|    Gary McCulloch to Tristan Miller    |
|    Re: Making a .d71 out of two .d64 images    |
|    31 Jan 20 17:49:12    |
      MSGID: 1:154/50@fidonet 5e34bcfc       PID: C-NET PRO 5.21C       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        * Origin: Reign of Fire C-Net Amiga Pro BBS v5.21c (1:154/50)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 14/5 15/0 2 19/36 34/999 90/1 104/115 106/201 114/224       SEEN-BY: 114/702 705 706 116/18 123/140 128/2 73 187 253 153/7715       SEEN-BY: 218/700 222/2 226/16 227/114 229/101 275 426 1014 230/150       SEEN-BY: 230/152 240/1120 5832 249/0 1 206 317 400 250/1 261/38 100       SEEN-BY: 266/512 267/155 275/100 282/103 1056 291/0 111 298/25 305/1       SEEN-BY: 305/3 310/2 312/2 317/3 320/119 219 322/757 340/0 342/13       SEEN-BY: 342/200 396/45 640/1321 712/848 801/0 161 2320/105 3005/1       SEEN-BY: 3634/12 5020/1042       PATH: 154/50 322/0 320/219 203/0 230/0 150 261/38 15/0 317/3 229/426           |
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