I'm sure you're all wanting to know

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 5:01 am

how precisely I've gotten on with my copy of Ultima: Mount Drash

Well finally... yes finally got it in my hands last week, and was able to test it last night. Sure, for once, there was actually some nervousness in whether it would load, but nothing to worry about really. Worked first time. Plays quite simply, but a bit of skill and planning needed.

And I've made a working TAP of it just in case... but please don't ask for a copy as I will not be distributing it under any circumstances.

carlsson · Post by **carlsson** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 7:15 am

Bad news.. I know where to download a version converted to disk.

Maybe this one of the better of the bad scenarios, as it will take some skill to reverse-engineer a one-filed or disk version back to tape for forging, and that EMD is not known to have existed on floppy disk anyway.

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 9:26 am

Oh I realise that, but as you said, putting it back to tape = very tricky. Any form of the game that people can play = good as long as it can't be transfered back to tape for pirate copies

Post by **Jeff-20** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 10:35 am

Will I ever get a chance to play that darn game?

vic user · Post by **vic user** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 10:58 am

send me your e-mail addie, and i will send you a zip file of it

chris

carlsson · Post by **carlsson** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 3:30 pm

Hm.. if it wasn't for the fact that Mount Drash is written in Basic and about 1.5-2K too large to fit into 8K memory block (after loading/depacking), Sierra On-Line could've released it on cartridge instead of tape. I wonder how that would have changed the rarity?

Mikam73 · Post by **Mikam73** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 11:01 am

vic user wrote:send me your e-mail addie, and i will send you a zip file of it

chris

You have copy of Vic20 version ?

Please..

vic user · Post by **vic user** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 11:28 am

hey mika;

no, i have a version ported for the pc. not the real thing, but you get the jist of it. (no sound too?)

chris

Mikam73 · Post by **Mikam73** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 1:14 pm

vic user wrote:hey mika;

no, i have a version ported for the pc. not the real thing, but you get the jist of it. (no sound too?)

chris

As a Vic20 lover.. I am only looking for real thing..

Mikam73 · Post by **Mikam73** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 1:34 pm

carlsson wrote:Bad news.. I know where to download a version converted to disk. Maybe this one of the better of the bad scenarios, as it will take some skill to reverse-engineer a one-filed or disk version back to tape for forging, and that EMD is not known to have existed on floppy disk anyway.

Where I could download disc version ?

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 7:01 am

Need to ask the same Q... has anyone got the onepart PRG file? Now I'm sure if someone does, they can trust me to give it up cos I already have the original game now

carlsson · Post by **carlsson** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 8:11 am

Look on Bo Zimmerman's Funet mirror (link posted elsewhere, not repeated for fewer Google/Tulip/Sierra/ESA hits) in the directory for 8K Basic games. The one-filed version utilizes Pucrunch which clearly is not an option if making an 8K cartridge version for VIC without 8K memory expansion.