This one is a little weird (which questions of mine aren't):

I bought this old game for a my Mac Classic on E-bay. Now this game came out about 17 years ago, so the disks are probably bad. But it kind of works and the guy I bought it from said that it worked fine before he sent it.

Well, it's a point and click game called Uninvited and it's two disks. You put disk 1 in, and it does thing. But when it asks for disk 2, the computer doesn't eject disk 1.

When I boot the computer with disk 1, it ejects eventually and I can put in disk 2 but then I get the bomb and it crashes or quits.

So here is what I'm thinking (realizing that I'm probably 100% wrong)
I can't copy the disk into the hard drive. It won't let me do it. Now, I'm thinking that previous owner, either erased or added some of his sys files to the disks. Because it just doesn't look right.

A disk is supposed to have:

The resource fork and the executable file!? Or something like that? I mean I'm looking at empty folders and stuff that doesn't look right.

Sorry to bother everyone, I'm sure it's a lost cause but I'm just trying to save it. Why not?

Thanks anyway!

Hrmmm. Sorry I couldnt be much help.

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You don't need much to boot and play a game if it is system 6, If i could get my hands on the game I could make you some disks, any chanse of getting the disks into basilisk II on your PC then uploading them somewere?

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I realize that the disks could just be bad but y'all have seemed to come up with alternatives that never crossed my mind (because my mind wouldn't have understood it anyway) that are definately worth trying!

In answer to the mac question. I have two mac classics. One with an SE drive; both runnng sys 6.0.8. I couldn't get the game to load on either one. Again the dude that sold them to me said they worked, so I'm trying to be the optimist first before admiting that maybe I just got ripped off or to be fair, they could have been damaged in the mail.

I don't know if two mac classics helps?

Now that Baslisk II option, what is that? (Once again, I have a PC that I do all my web stuff with).

Thanks again gentlemen!

spyswitch00

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If i remember corrctly all he has is that one mac, so basilisk 2 would have to be the option.

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WOW! You guys are good! I honestly thought that I was either going to get a reply of flamed laughter if any reply at all. Thanks for replying!

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Ok, on with it; don't want to waste your time.

That's a good question about what system the game wants to run in. I have no idea. What I do know, is that I was playing this game with a buddy of mine back in 86 (that what the disks say too) on a mac plus. Was sys 7 out then?

I guess I could download Baslisk II. So I guess I just put the mac disks into the PC while Basklisk II is running and I can make a copy of the image from there, or I have to disk image them first?

If I can't find my way with Baslisk II....

Then I would be totally in just mailing the disks to someone (Danny, that would be great). I'm willing to eat all costs to get this thing to work (I know, I know, I'm nuts..) I probably just need somone to tell me that the disks are bad. If someone wants to chance it, name your price.

Thanks again!

What I would try to do is:

Copy the disks with DiskCopy
Check the disk with Norton or another disk tool for errors
If no errors are found, assume the disks are good.
copy the disks to a pc floppy and then email to someone to look at. ( I will)

If you get errors with disk copy, then the disks maybe bad. Then you have to decide if it is worth the risk to try to repair them since the repair could make the disk worse.

emaq123

Now, is disk copy something I would do on my mac classic? I'm not sure if I have something like that in there. I assume:

That's it's either on my system additions disk
or it's a separate thing I have to get/download

because:

I've tried putting the contents of the disk into my HD but it won't even let me do that. It says the disk could not be coppied. I'm guessing that this is a typical anti pirating thing software companies do? Or is this an indication that the disk is bad.

Again, it looks like I get farther when I boot the computer with the disk in there. It at least spits out disk one and asks for disk two.

If I just click on the game Icon without after the computer is up and running, it just holds on to disk one without spitting it out. All the while requesting disk two. I'm rambling I realize.

the size of disk 1: 388,096 with 379K on disk
disk 2: 400,384 with 391K on disk

don't know if this helps but that's what I got when I did a get info.

thanks again!

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Now, is disk copy something I would do on my mac classic? I'm not sure if I have something like that in there. I assume:

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Thanks!

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Emaq would you be interested in me just shipping the disks out to you? I could pay you for your effort. It they're bad just can them. But if you could restore them I'm willing to pay for your expertise. Just a thought. I just seem to be under equiped for the task.

Thanks!

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I've got Spyswitch's disks. Here is what I've found out so far.

1. Disks are 400k. Disk one is marked "Macintosh 512K"
2. Disks have Mindscape logo.
3. Disks and game seem fine on a Plus
4. Disk 2 crashes on a Classic
5. Disk 1 crashes on a SE/30

Anyone got any ideas? The only thing I see is that Macs with a Superdrive have problems. What about copy protection?

emaq123

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To be fairly honest i'm at a loss, lets see... What is a minimum os the classic can boot? What os are you running when you play the game?

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You've probably already tried this, but try 'em all on an early system such as System 3 on the Plus. Some of them might be too old for a Classic with System 6.x.

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http://mac.the-underdogs.org/index.php?show=game&id=164

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Why go through all of this hassle with DiskCopy and Basilisk when you can just download Uninvited (assuming it'll run on the Classic II)

http://mac.the-underdogs.org/index.php?show=game&id=164

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