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   Message 3,052 of 4,328   
   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.   
      
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