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Steppe
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 1510 |
FD2000/HD/1581 versions of multidisk games
Hi all,
I'm right now playing Ultima V on my C128. And even though I have a second drive connected I find the disk swapping extremely annoying. I wonder if one of those jewel crackers out there would like to do a version of that game (or other multidisk RPG like Bard's Tale II+III, Dragon Wars, just to name a few) that run from a single 1581/CMD FD2000/CMD HD or IDE64 (even 64HDD would be nice)?
I did a little research on Ultima V and discovered that the majority of the files on the 8 disks is redundant data! Actually only about 2 files per disk differ from files on other disks with the same filename! So I could imagine that all it takes is to modify the main program files, add a few branching instruction depending on the location of the game (Dungeons, Keeps, Towns...), rename the non-redundant files and adjust the main program files to load those renamed files instead.
Am I just blue-eyed, or do you think this is doable with reasonably low effort? |
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Fierman
Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 85 |
Thanks to a number of people I have been able to gather quite some games that work on 1581: (not all multidisk though)
http://fierman.org/c64/1581
If anyone has some more, I would be happy to add them to the collection. |
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Count Zero
Registered: Jan 2003
Posts: 1932 |
Fierman Necromancer ...
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Fierman
Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 85 |
Quote: Fierman Necromancer ...
;-)
Harmless fun, and who knows the images may come in handy sometimes. |
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Count Zero
Registered: Jan 2003
Posts: 1932 |
Not doubting that - proper reaction would have been to start a new thread and encourage ppl to tell you about more releases working on "exotics" though :)
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