On Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 2:24:08 AM UTC+8, qkumba wrote:
> I'm abandoning the old thread in order to create dedicated entries.
> This one is intended for anyone to request new ports.
>
> Here's the list that I have received so far:
> Aliens
> arcade machine
> Archon
> Archon II: Adept
> Ballblazer
> Beyond Castle Wolfenstein
> Bilestoad
> Blazing Paddles
> Cavern Creatures
> Flight Simulator II w/ support for scenery disk content on a HD
> Ghostbusters
> Law of the West
> Maniac Mansion
> MasterType (Double Hires version!)
> might and magic
> Music Construction Kit
> One on One
> pinball construction set
> pool of radiance
> rocky horror
> rocky's boots
> Santa Paravia and Fiumaccio
> shadowkeep
> Situation: Critical
> Starfleet One
> The Bard's Tale
> The Oregon Trail
> Transylvania
> Type Attack, by Sirius
> Ultima I
> Wasteland
> Wings of Fury

SSI AD&D Series:
Pool of Radiance
Curse of the Azure Bonds
Champions of Krynn
War of the Lance

Thanks,
A.L.

Okay, I have added these to the list.

On Wednesday, September 15, 2021 at 12:44:31 AM UTC+8, qkumba wrote:
> Okay, I have added these to the list.

Many thanks in advance. Also please make them all HD installable/playable if that's not your goal already.

> Many thanks in advance. Also please make them all HD installable/playable if that's not your goal already.

That comes for free with the ProDOS port. Since they're files, you can just copy them to a hard disk and run from there.
Check the "new ProDOS ports" thread for announcements. Pool of Radiance is done.

On Wednesday, September 15, 2021 at 11:46:48 AM UTC+8, qkumba wrote:
> > Many thanks in advance. Also please make them all HD installable/playable if that's not your goal already.
> That comes for free with the ProDOS port. Since they're files, you can just copy them to a hard disk and run from there.
> Check the "new ProDOS ports" thread for announcements. Pool of Radiance is done.

Wow... You are really incredible! I will give it a spin later today.

--* me very happy :-) *-

On Tue, 14 Sep 2021, qkumba wrote:

>> Many thanks in advance. Also please make them all HD installable/playable if that's not your goal already.
>
> That comes for free with the ProDOS port. Since they're files, you can just copy them to a hard disk and run from there.
> Check the "new ProDOS ports" thread for announcements. Pool of Radiance is done.
>

In fact, this is the reason I started doing ProDOS ports.

ProDOS is pretty much device-agnostic, and if a program simply uses ProDOS
calls to access the disk, it can use any drive that works with. I knew
that 5.25" disks would ultimately fail, that drives from the time period
would ultimate fail, that people would ultimately be using modern devices
instead - and knew that DOS 3.3 file cracks would often not work on
ProDOS, so I decided to try to start doing ProDOS file cracks.

(I haven't done nearly the quantity or quality of these cracks as qkumba
did, but since I did have skin in the game I figured I'd jump in with my
two cents.)

-uso.

On Thursday, September 16, 2021 at 1:40:25 AM UTC+8, Steve Nickolas wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Sep 2021, qkumba wrote:
>
> >> Many thanks in advance. Also please make them all HD installable/playable if that's not your goal already.
> >
> > That comes for free with the ProDOS port. Since they're files, you can just copy them to a hard disk and run from there.
> > Check the "new ProDOS ports" thread for announcements. Pool of Radiance is done.
> >
> In fact, this is the reason I started doing ProDOS ports.
>
> ProDOS is pretty much device-agnostic, and if a program simply uses ProDOS
> calls to access the disk, it can use any drive that works with. I knew
> that 5.25" disks would ultimately fail, that drives from the time period
> would ultimate fail, that people would ultimately be using modern devices
> instead - and knew that DOS 3.3 file cracks would often not work on
> ProDOS, so I decided to try to start doing ProDOS file cracks.
>
> (I haven't done nearly the quantity or quality of these cracks as qkumba
> did, but since I did have skin in the game I figured I'd jump in with my
> two cents.)
>
> -uso.

Well said, gents, and I appreciate very much your efforts to help me experience my childhood joy again. Two thumbs up totally!

Project Space Station
Earth Orbit Stations
Ultima II
Space Rogue
Adventure Construction Set
Garry Kitchen's Game Maker
Wizardry 1-5
Universe 1 & 2
Might & Magic 1 & 2
Legend of Blacksilver
Centauri Alliance

On Sat, 18 Sep 2021, magnusfalkirk wrote:

> Garry Kitchen's Game Maker

Gamemaker would be... *cough* interesting, because of the whole "make a
disk" thing.

-uso.

> Project Space Station
> Earth Orbit Stations
> Ultima II
> Space Rogue
> Adventure Construction Set
> Garry Kitchen's Game Maker
> Wizardry 1-5
> Universe 1 & 2
> Might & Magic 1 & 2
> Legend of Blacksilver
> Centauri Alliance

The Wizardry series is currently a test-case in Holodeck. We haven't worked out yet how we will allow transferring characters between 1 and 2, but they boot and run.
Ultima II - I have not seen a clean version.
I've added the others to my list.

> Gamemaker would be... *cough* interesting, because of the whole "make a
> disk" thing.

I can create a disk image on the hard disk, but the filename is a problem. I suppose that I could just pick the next number in a sequence, like Passport does.
Holodeck will probably solve this. You'd be able to select the target image on start.

On Sat, 18 Sep 2021, qkumba wrote:

>> Gamemaker would be... *cough* interesting, because of the whole "make a
>> disk" thing.
>
> I can create a disk image on the hard disk, but the filename is a problem. I suppose that I could just pick the next number in a sequence, like Passport does.
> Holodeck will probably solve this. You'd be able to select the target image on start.
>

I actually created a tool some time ago that pulls the data off a
Gamemaker disk and creates a BIN file.

http://1.buric.co/gameroller2.zip

Basically, the formatter places a loader on the disk, plus 5 BIN files.
This could be fudged by formatting a disk, writing PRODOS, a .SYSTEM file,
and the 5 files, perhaps...

-uso.

Might and Magic I
Wizardry I

Ah, Might and Magic II has the same "transfer characters" issue as Curse of the Azure Bonds and Wizardry II.

Ah, Might and Magic II has the same "transfer characters" issue as Curse of the Azure Bonds and Wizardry II.

On Sunday, September 26, 2021 at 10:06:14 AM UTC+8, Lorne Lavine wrote:
> Might and Magic I
> Wizardry I

MM1 just showed up in https://www.apple.asimov.net/images/games/collections/san_inc_prodos/ (Yes!!)

On Monday, October 4, 2021 at 8:13:13 PM UTC-7, A. Lupin wrote:
> On Sunday, September 26, 2021 at 10:06:14 AM UTC+8, Lorne Lavine wrote:
> > Might and Magic I
> > Wizardry I
> MM1 just showed up in https://www.apple.asimov.net/images/games/collections/san_inc_prodos/ (Yes!!)

Have you tried to run it? Mine crashes whenever I try to view an archer, whether it's the one that comes with the game or one you make yourself.

On 2021-10-07 03:50:35 +0000, Lorne Lavine said:

> On Monday, October 4, 2021 at 8:13:13 PM UTC-7, A. Lupin wrote:
>> On Sunday, September 26, 2021 at 10:06:14 AM UTC+8, Lorne Lavine wrote:
>>> Might and Magic I
>>> Wizardry I
>> MM1 just showed up in
>> https://www.apple.asimov.net/images/games/collections/san_inc_prodos/
>> (Yes!!)
>
> Have you tried to run it? Mine crashes whenever I try to view an
> archer, whether it's the one that comes with the game or one you make
> yourself.

Are you running it from GS/OS or just from ProDOS 8? GS/OS is likely to
bring instability to qkumba's ProDOS ports, so it's better to run just
ProDOS 8. You can run P8 from the same GS/OS parition of your MDT by
holding down the '8' key very early on in the boot process (and past
the MDT keypress about which partition to boot from).

Alex

On Wednesday, October 6, 2021 at 10:33:48 PM UTC-7, Alex Lee wrote:
> On 2021-10-07 03:50:35 +0000, Lorne Lavine said:
>
> > On Monday, October 4, 2021 at 8:13:13 PM UTC-7, A. Lupin wrote:
> >> On Sunday, September 26, 2021 at 10:06:14 AM UTC+8, Lorne Lavine wrote:
> >>> Might and Magic I
> >>> Wizardry I
> >> MM1 just showed up in
> >> https://www.apple.asimov.net/images/games/collections/san_inc_prodos/
> >> (Yes!!)
> >
> > Have you tried to run it? Mine crashes whenever I try to view an
> > archer, whether it's the one that comes with the game or one you make
> > yourself.
> Are you running it from GS/OS or just from ProDOS 8? GS/OS is likely to
> bring instability to qkumba's ProDOS ports, so it's better to run just
> ProDOS 8. You can run P8 from the same GS/OS parition of your MDT by
> holding down the '8' key very early on in the boot process (and past
> the MDT keypress about which partition to boot from).
>
> Alex
Yes, I ran it first from GS/OS and when that didn't work, I then ran it from the FloppyEmu in SmartPort mode, same issue. Same for ProDOS mode. Crashes whenever you view an archer, whether the existing one or a new one.