Got this in my mail today, re: the availability of Drash images, just wanted to pass along.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Great Hierophant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 3:08 AM Subject: Ultima: Escape from Mt. Drash > I hope you are aware of a .d64 image floating around that purports to be > that of Ultima: Escape from Mt. Drash. I have two U:EfMtD images, a tape > image and a disk image. Both images I got from the Vic-20 archive at Funet > before they took all the commercial games down. The disk image is not just > some throw the tape image onto a disk thing, the disk image has a loader > program and the program code is split into two files. There are some minor > differences between the disk image and tape image. The only differences I > have noticed from the tape image to the disk image is that the ending tune > plays at the welcome screen and there is a "please wait" black screen > between the title and welcome screens. Also, the disk image is not very PAL > compatible while the tape image is (if PAL Vic-20s were ever made.) Finally > I found this in a Hex Editor of the disk image: ESCAPE FROM MOUNT DRASH > CONVERTED TO DISK IN 2002. The ending may be screwed up too, which is why I > used the tape image to write my FAQ on the game. This could be a source of > fraud if disks are easier to reproduce than tapes and a seller purports to > offer the "even rarer disk version" of U:EfMtD. > > GH > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
