pool of radiance only recognizes one drive??

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pool of radiance only recognizes one drive??

i have pool of radiance on apple IIe and i have two disk ii

drives. This game takes up eight floppies and for some reason it only recognizes drive 1. it doesn't even activate drive 2 at all.  There is no way anyone played this eight floppy game with one drive. Where do i begin to get this game to recognize the other drive? The drive 2 works with other software. Thanks

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I have a boxed copy with

I have a boxed copy with manuals that was given to me when someone cleaned out some old stuff they had. But I've never played it. The Apple II info booklet says nothing about using a second drive. It only mentions Drive 1. It also lists all the options like sound, if your apple is accelerated, if you have a joystick, etc. Number of drives is not one of the listed options. The Apple II sticker on the box makes no reference to number of drives either. Just that you need an e, c, or gs with 128k. 

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I haven't played it but qkumba cracked Pool of Radiance and put it all into a single 1.4MB ProDOS disk image. If you have a way to mount it, it should serve you well. You can find it and many other cracks at the link below.

san inc prodos collection

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xot wrote:I haven't played it
xot wrote:

I haven't played it but qkumba cracked Pool of Radiance and put it all into a single 1.4MB ProDOS disk image. If you have a way to mount it, it should serve you well. You can find it and many other cracks at the link below.

san inc prodos collection

 

That is very helpful! Thank you! Apple II commnuity is so great!

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nick3092 wrote:I have a boxed
nick3092 wrote:

I have a boxed copy with manuals that was given to me when someone cleaned out some old stuff they had. But I've never played it. The Apple II info booklet says nothing about using a second drive. It only mentions Drive 1. It also lists all the options like sound, if your apple is accelerated, if you have a joystick, etc. Number of drives is not one of the listed options. The Apple II sticker o

Thank you for telling me this. Maybe it is just isnt meant to work with more than one disk drive.

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system1834 wrote:There is no
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There is no way anyone played this eight floppy game with one drive. 

 

That's funny, we were thrilled to have games that spanned multiple disks and the quantity of disks was never a factor! Another reason for not supporting multiple drives could have been that disks were distributed on DS disks and you can't have one disk in two drives at any point in time. Sure they could have applied some out-of-order disk numbering but somoene would have had to think someone would complain about having to open a drive latch, remove a disk, install a disk, close a drive latch, and press a key.

If disk count had been a problem, the Williams' little game shop would have been a short-lived failure of a company. 

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