Jason Compton writes ...
> 
> Has anyone managed to successfully run Queen of Phobos (found on the Horde
> mirror in games/unsorted as qop.dsk.gz)? I realize that some Asimov/mirror
> images are bad, but I also know that people have debugged images like
> Crypt of Medea, so I thought there might be a chance.
> 
 ....

     It turns out the image (which seems to be a good crack) needs to be in
.nib form. As a .dsk, all volume numbering info is lost.

     Checked info about QOP in Computist issues. In #35, Steve and Rod Smith
describe the Dav Holle protection scheme used by Phoenix and Penguin for QOP,
Masguerade, and other products. They describe a deprotection method and
mention that the final step needs to be setting disk volume number to zero
(which you can do using Bag of Tricks).

     If you take the QOP .dsk and copy it to a .nib (using, say, Disk
Muncher), you can use Bag of Tricks to set the VN to zero on the .nib and
have a copy of Queen of Phobos you can run on emus like AppleWin.

     Pretty neat when stuff like that works. For sure, whoever did the crack
is the one who did the real work; and, the uploader to Asimov deserves credit
for supplying a good copy in the .dsk image.

     The .nib Queen of Phobos is in QueenOfPhobos.zip on GS WorldView's
archive at http://apple2.org.za/gswv/a2zine/Games/ . (Will upload a copy to
Asimov once it's back on-line.)

     The .zip file also contains an .sdk ShrinkIt copy of the game for users
who want to transfer it to a real Apple II.



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