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    Virtual PC 2.1

    I don't know if this is helpful or not, but on the off-chance that it is, I thought I'd mention the program RealPC, which I used to use with great success on my old PowerMac 8500. I do not have any idea if they ever made a 68k version of it, though...
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    Wizardry 1 and Mini vMac issue - any workarounds?

    Dog Cow, thanks for trying again. As I see it, while what you say about the hardware may be correct, I'm not sure it's relevant. Here's what I think is happening: In older System versions, there was an option to Eject a floppy without dragging it to the Trash. Ejecting a floppy in this way...
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    Wizardry 1 and Mini vMac issue - any workarounds?

    Mac128, thanks for the reply (and the compliment). I haven't contacted him directly yet. His website suggested that I try here first... :) If nobody else suggests a magic fix in the next couple of days, I probably will write him directly.
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    Wizardry 1 and Mini vMac issue - any workarounds?

    Dog Cow, thanks for the reply. I'm not sure that copy protection is the culprit here. Although I own the original game from many years ago, I am using a disk image obtained from another source with the emulator since my original disk cannot be read by my host pc's external USB floppy drive...
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    Wizardry 1 and Mini vMac issue - any workarounds?

    When trying to use Mini vMac to play the old Wizardry ("Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord") game from disk images, it insists on reading the "master" disk (which must be write-protected) before it will proceed. On Mini vMac, this makes it impossible to run this program. Here's the sequence of...
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