flight simulator ii with scenery (san inc pack).po

[Keatah]

Currently rotting away in Asimov's incoming folder is this "flight simulator ii with scenery (san inc pack).po"..

 

Does anyone in the know know if this is all the scenery disks installed and pre-configured? I ask because I was about to get going on something like that. And of course don't want to duplicate efforts.

[nick3092]

This discussion makes it sound like it might have all the available A2 scenery disks included. Could always reach out to Peter and ask. I don't think he posts here at AA at all.

 

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.apple2/c/dVN7lAg3Rew

[magnusfalkirk]

Actually this is the more relevant topic, since it deals with the new ProDOS port of Flight Simulator II: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.apple2/c/k-THYT8ziQU  scroll down to the bottom. According to qkumba disk 11 and 14A of the scenery disks are corrupt. he's waiting for them to be re-imaged as nibs.

Edited August 19, 2022 by magnusfalkirk

[magnusfalkirk]

Keatah,

 

If you haven't checked lately FS2 with the scenery disks is out of the incoming folder and in Asimov collections/san_inc_prodos folder.

[Keatah]

Very good. I will take a look.

[Keatah]

While on the the topic, a side topic pops into my feeble infantile mind.. What is the purpose of the san inc packs?

 

Do they serve a technical purpose? Easier to put on ProDOS volumes? Put more of them on a volume? A demonstration of technical prowess through the packing routines? Put them on ProDOS because it seems to be the more popular OS and seems supported more widely?

 

Which brings up one other question. Would ProDOS be the most complex 8-bit OS? Or might that go to SpartaDOS on the Atari line?

[The Usotsuki]

The ProDOS ports will work on drives that aren't compatible with the disk ][. (Like the Unidisk 3.5" and flash devices)

 

My own ProDOS ports, unlike qkumba's, mostly do not use compression.  (There are a couple exceptions, like Donkey Kong and Joust.)