Red 5 Posted March 9, 2008 Share Posted March 9, 2008 I played Ultima III when I was 14 and fell in love with it. 23 years later, I want to play again. I bought this a few months ago... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...em=190183043241 Of course, lucky me, it doesn't load. I want to play it on my Atari 800 from the disc drive... I know... but still... I do... Is there any way to do this? I have access to some old computers with 5 1/4 drives in the storage room where I work. Is there any way to download the game and make a copy of it? Or is there anyone here with sympathy for a poor Ultima fan who has a working copy of disc they could send me? I'll bake you chocalate chip cookies or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+remowilliams Posted March 9, 2008 Share Posted March 9, 2008 I take it that you don't have any of the nifty PC/Atari interface hardware like SIO2PC, etc. It is possible to get old PCs to write DD disk images I believe, but not SD (which Ultima is). Generally, without specialized interface hardware getting disks to/from the A8 is an enormous pain in the ass. You also will be limited to playing a cracked version, as the disk protection cannot currently be written back to a real floppy. I have original protected images that can be played on a real Atari, but you need APE/SIO2PC to get that done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red 5 Posted March 9, 2008 Author Share Posted March 9, 2008 Well that just sucks. I figured as much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+remowilliams Posted March 9, 2008 Share Posted March 9, 2008 Well that just sucks. Another reason why I tell everyone to check out APE/SIO2PC. Worst case, if you can't get it done I could write out a cracked copy and drop it in the mail for ya. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
potatohead Posted March 9, 2008 Share Posted March 9, 2008 If III is the same as II, then there is a nice way to simulate the copy protection. Load the disk, about 19 - 25 beeps in, it goes to read the bad sector, but does not check the exact error given. So, you open the drive door, wait for the fart like sound, indicating a read failure, then close it again. Game runs fine from there. I made backups of my Ultima stuff, and played that way many times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 If III is the same as II, then there is a nice way to simulate the copy protection. Load the disk, about 19 - 25 beeps in, it goes to read the bad sector, but does not check the exact error given. So, you open the drive door, wait for the fart like sound, indicating a read failure, then close it again. Game runs fine from there. I made backups of my Ultima stuff, and played that way many times. This is true - prior to me buying Ultima III I was able to play by listening to the beeps - count until the drive stops - that is where it is looking for a bad sector. Restart the load process and the sector before it looks I just hit the break key a # of times before it asked for the next disk and it worked Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highendsystems Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 This one works great! The two parchments are crispy.... This is all I have left, but this disk DUZz do BOOTy. <pic Ultima III> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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