peter_j wrote:
Kobushi - is there not a crack in any of those old Wizard88 or File Master disks?
I think I tried that a couple years ago when the disk images were posted. But I might as well try again.
I found two filers with profiles for Alley Cat: Magic Copy and Expert88. Expert88 didn't work - the result was a 1KB d88 file (this might be an emulator problem). Magic Copy didn't work at first - there was a typo in the IF-THEN statement on line 10050. After I patched that, the disk was copied, but it still won't boot.
This leads me to conclude that this disk image is not a 1:1 dump of the original Alley Cat disk. If we had the original disk, the filers would probably work.
If anyone wants to try the filers, they're pretty self-explanatory.
Magic Copy: boot from the filer disk, press 0 for filer mode. Alley Cat is profile #1. Swap disks as instructed, then press Enter.
Expert88: boot from the filer disk, press 3 for construction mode. Alley Cat is profile #18. Swap disks as instructed, then press y.
Here are the filer disks, and the disk that Magic Copy produced. I also extracted the main backup routine and Alley Cat profile from each filer for reference. The code shows you exactly how to crack the disk. Now it's just a matter of figuring out why it won't boot.