30-08-2024, 06:02 PM
These two disks were recently purchased as they were not currently in the repository. Both were early Honeysoft copy protected 5.25" disks that ubeedisk is still able to image with the one error to produce working copies. There is no System on Track 0 or 1 so are non-booting.
Most of the early 5.25" Honeysoft disks had a simple copy protection applied. All the tracks of a normal Microbee 5.25" disk have 10 sector/track. But one of the tracks in the middle of the program only has 9 sectors (sector 10 always missing) so all the normal copying programs of the time stop when it cant find the missing 10th sector. ubeedisk also cant find the 10th sector, as its missing, but you just select ignore and it keeps copying.
A DIR of the disk also normally shows one large file, typical 56kb or 64k as a COM file. This file contains not only the program but BASIC as well. The missing 10th sector doesn't appear in the same spot on the disks also, one disk has it missing from Track 3 Side 0 Sector 10, the other Track 2 Side 1 sector 10.
I'd wish they keep the program names consistent, their catalogues has Typing Tutorials listed, the disks is labelled just as Tutorial and the program runs called Typing Lessons. This program is also on the education_11_ss80.dsk disk as Typing Lessons. The Temple of Azragor is also the honeysoft_adventures_vol_1.dsk disk, both in the current Repository.
Temple of Azragor
This is the third program in the popular series of adventure games.
After you solved the "Eye of Min" and obtained the priceless gem,
you lost it during your quest for the "Sabre of Sultar". Here is your
opportunity to regain the treasure, which is now kept in the "Temple
of Azragor", the site of many a macabre blood sacrifice at the hands
of the earth maidens.
Typing Tutorial
This is a basic typing tutorial and a bonus program explaining how the various keys on the Microbee keyboard are used and positioned.
So in the Microbee Technolgy Repository in the following folders we placed
temple_of_azragor_ds40.dsk <-- in Microbee/Software/Games folder
typing_tutorial_ds40.dsk <-- in Microbee/Software/Education folder
temple_of_azragor.jpg <-- in Microbee/Documentation/Pictures/Disks/5.25_inch folder
typing_tutorial_early.jpg
Most of the early 5.25" Honeysoft disks had a simple copy protection applied. All the tracks of a normal Microbee 5.25" disk have 10 sector/track. But one of the tracks in the middle of the program only has 9 sectors (sector 10 always missing) so all the normal copying programs of the time stop when it cant find the missing 10th sector. ubeedisk also cant find the 10th sector, as its missing, but you just select ignore and it keeps copying.
A DIR of the disk also normally shows one large file, typical 56kb or 64k as a COM file. This file contains not only the program but BASIC as well. The missing 10th sector doesn't appear in the same spot on the disks also, one disk has it missing from Track 3 Side 0 Sector 10, the other Track 2 Side 1 sector 10.
I'd wish they keep the program names consistent, their catalogues has Typing Tutorials listed, the disks is labelled just as Tutorial and the program runs called Typing Lessons. This program is also on the education_11_ss80.dsk disk as Typing Lessons. The Temple of Azragor is also the honeysoft_adventures_vol_1.dsk disk, both in the current Repository.
Temple of Azragor
This is the third program in the popular series of adventure games.
After you solved the "Eye of Min" and obtained the priceless gem,
you lost it during your quest for the "Sabre of Sultar". Here is your
opportunity to regain the treasure, which is now kept in the "Temple
of Azragor", the site of many a macabre blood sacrifice at the hands
of the earth maidens.
Typing Tutorial
This is a basic typing tutorial and a bonus program explaining how the various keys on the Microbee keyboard are used and positioned.
So in the Microbee Technolgy Repository in the following folders we placed
temple_of_azragor_ds40.dsk <-- in Microbee/Software/Games folder
typing_tutorial_ds40.dsk <-- in Microbee/Software/Education folder
temple_of_azragor.jpg <-- in Microbee/Documentation/Pictures/Disks/5.25_inch folder
typing_tutorial_early.jpg
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