[Apple II/e] Using 2 floppy drives at the same time?

[vanfanel]

Hi there,

I was trying to play Ancient Legends, an awesome-looking Apple II/e game available for free here:

https://github.com/badvision/lawless-le ... %20Legends

It supports using 2 floppy drives to avoid disk swapping. From the readme:

Insert disk 1 in drive 1 and disk 2 in drive 2. then turn on your computer.

However, doing so in the core results on an error:

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*** UNABLE TO LOAD PRODOS ***

So, is 2 floppy supported by the core? I see there are two options to mount floppy images, but I don't know if that means that they can be used at the same time, or what does it mean.

[vanfanel]

There's also an 1-disk version here:
https://github.com/badvision/lawless-le ... ersion.2mg

But what's that 2mg format? Hard drive (=HFV) image? Special floppy image?

[Flandango]

There does seem to be an issue with the core when booting with two floppies mounted.
The 1-disk version of the game is 800k image (3.5" floppy), which the core doesn't support.
However, you can convert it to an HDV image and it should boot. Not sure if the game attempts to save or not so I don't know how it will behave down the line.
Here is the command you can type (on Mister/linux) to convert it (the core's read me file explains how to do it on it's repo)...

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dd if="Ancient Legends - 800k version.2mg" of="Ancient Legends - 800k version.hdv" bs=64 skip=1

[vanfanel]

@Flandango: Thanks! The conversion to HFV worked perfectly well, and I am very glad it uses simple GNU DD since I only use GNU/Linux for everything since 2003.

Also, I reported the bug, in case it could be fixed by mr Newsdee:
https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Apple-I ... /issues/29