Subj : Making a .d71 out of two .d64 images
To   : All
From : Tristan Miller
Date : Fri Jan 31 2020 12:41 pm

Dear all,

I'd like to play Ultima V in VICE.  This game came on four double-sided
disks, which entailed a lot of disk-swapping.  But if memory serves, the
C128 version of the game supported up to two drives, and if the drives
were 1571s, the game would automatically read the correct side of the
disk for you.  So with two 1571s, instead of one 1541, you could cut the
number of disk swaps by factor of 4.

The problem is that the only disk images of the game I have are .d64
images of the eight individual sides.  Is there any way of combining two
..d64 images into a single .d71 image?  Or is my only option to buy a
floppy drive capable of reading double-sided disks and the requisite
imaging software, and then manually re-image all the physical disks?

Regards,
Tristan

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                  Tristan Miller
Free Software developer, ferret herder, logologist
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