Retrochallenge 2015/01 Second Post

In order to play Eamon you need at least one diskette from the Eamon Library.  The Main Hall and Beginners Cave (EAMON001.DSK) is where everything starts, and hopefully ends.

In order to create more adventures a second diskette, the Dungeon Designer Disk (EAMOND71.DSK) is very helpful.  Something to remember is neither disk is a bootable, so if you are going to run them you need to boot with another diskette or make them bootable.

I downloaded disk images of both of those and another of ProDos 4.0.2.  After trying to boot both of the Eamon diskettes and getting “*** UNABLE TO LOAD PRODOS ***”,  I booted the ProDos 4.0.2 diskette and looked at the EAMON001 disk with the System Utilities. Although there was no ProDos or Basic.system, there was Startup, so I exited the system utilities to basic and ran Startup.

The first thing that comes up is instructions on making the Eamon Main Hall diskette bootable.  Simple instructions to make a copy of the diskette, delete the file PLAYER.MANUAL, and copy both PRODOS and BASIC.SYSTEM onto the diskette.  Make sure to use a copy of the original diskette so you can keep the PLAYER.MANUAL around for possible use.

This gives me a bootable copy of the Eamon Main Hall diskette to work with.

EDIT: 1/8/15

As with any project like this where you will be making changes to an existing work, you should make copies of the diskettes involved and use to the copies to work with.  If you have a problem, at least you can fall back to the original.