![]() The fact that these problem disk images don't work on newer versions of AppleWin, and other emulators, reflects a problem with Beta 2 and the NIB images made from it, rather than current versions of AppleWin.Apple II is one of the first successfully 8-bit microcomputers mass-produced that was a huge success back in 1977. So, I think that the NIB images on the Sierra CD's (and on Asimov from 1998) were made with AppleWin Beta 2 with Enhance Disk Speed enabled, and due to whatever it does, that's the only configuration where certain parts of certain disks can be read. GO MACHINE (and go through machine intro text)Įnhance Disk Speed disabled: AppleWin Beta 2 hangs in exotic ways, including graphics page and text page artifacts Start Time Zone, using the original NIB disk set on the Roberta Williams Anthology CD or the 1998 upload to Asimov I tested on AppleWin Beta 2 (March 95), running on Windows 3.1 with Win32s installed, in DOSBox. Rather than rely on the vagaries of my memory, I just confirmed that yes, parts of disk 5i are only readable if Enhance Disk Speed is enabled in Beta 2, and not readable if it is disabled. I think it's not that AppleWin doesn't work with Disk 5i, as much as Disk 5i, as shipped on the Sierra CD-ROMs, doesn't work with any emulator other than AppleWin March 95/Beta 2 with Enhance Disk Speed enabled. These fixed NIB images are in the 2008 multidrive version I posted on Asimov. I then used a newer version of AppleWin (or a different emulator, I can't remember) to copy the DSK versions back into NIB files, with correct volume numbers, by manipulating line 260 of COPYA (which has an INIT command) to give me the volume number I wanted. I was able to resolve this by using AppleWin March 95/Beta 2, which can read all the NIB images, and running COPYA to copy them to DSK images. There were one or two other images that had problems as well. Something about the NIB images themselves isn't right, because Disk 5i's NIB file doesn't work on any other emulator, either, nor with Enhance Disk Speed disabled even in Beta 2. I think that actually, as pertains to NIB images, it was that a bug existed with the "Enhance Disk Speed" feature of March 95 (aka Beta 2), which is what shipped on those anthology CD-ROMS. If you want, I'll email you the disk images of Time Zone along with a save state when the game asks for disk 5i, so maybe you solve the problem with the newer version of WinApple? The version of WinApple on the Roberta Williams Anthology, that works correctly with Time Zone gives a copyright 1994 in the purple background, and has big red diagonal letters splashed across the purple background that says "Beta Test March 1995". There must be some kind of bug or change in newer versions of WinApple that causes Time Zone to crash on disk 5i. So I ran the WinApple that was on the collection CD, and much to my surprise, the problem I was having was solved when the game asked for disk 5i, I attached it and the game then loaded from the disk and I was able to keep playing! Well, since the collection was released around 1998 or so, it is a very old version of WinApple, at first I thought that it couldn't run in Windows XP, but I learned that it does run in XP, it just requires a few minutes to load up the first time. ![]() The Roberta Williams Anthology comes with a copy of WinApple on it to run the Apple IIe games. I put in a save state for the newest version of AppleWin, version 1.14.2, called "time zone insert disk 5i", when the game asks for disk 5i, when you insert disk 5i in the newer versions of AppleWin the game will crash. Insert it, and in this old version of AppleWin the game will load off of the disk correctly, however in newer versions the game will crash. Then type in "exit machine" to leave the time machine, the disk then asks for disk 5i. It then asks for a saved game disk, insert the disk image "tzone save disk" and after it loads, insert the Time Zone disk it asks for. This is a text/graphic adventure so after the game loads in and the game starts type in "restore game" then type in "a" when it asks for which game that you want to load. Select "1" for play the game from the main menu. Boot the disk image TZONE1A to start the game. ![]() zip file with a save spot near where it asks for disk 5i. The version of AppleWin is so old that it does not have save states, so I put a saved game disk for Time Zone in the. ![]() I can't find what version it is of AppleWin, only that it is from March 1995, which is the version of AppleWin that came on the Roberta Williams Anthology CD which I got the Time Zone disk images off of. zip file to this email that has all of the Time Zone disk images along with the old version of AppleWin that can run it correctly. ![]()
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