One oddity that I've noticed, however, with Virtual ][ and some of the other emulators (have to test this systematically) is that a NEW Odyssey game starts in the *SAME* place every time. I am glad that he's got a $20 option now. give us a full-working demo, perhaps for 30 days, or 20 hours total, or with progressively slow launch times, but enough so that we can truly test it! Having major features only available for $50 and being unable to test them is a nuisance. His entire cripple-ware approach is off-putting and one of the worst I've seen. What's not so unobtrusive, unless he's changed it, is that the demo stops every 5 minutes. Virtual ]['s evaluation label (EVALUATION VERSION) that it slaps on the screen is in the lower right and is fairly unobtrusive. I'm going to have to try this with the other emulators perhaps there's a way to get this working. This is really insert saved game, reinsert program disk, and you're off the races! I was able to use it when prompted at the Odyssey startup N for new adventure or P for previous.Īlso, I found that there was little swapping of diskettes! Well, compared to the old floppy-swappy as we used to call it in the early Apple II and early Mac days (there were times when you could be swapping diskettes, 10, 12, 14 times!). I never thought to format a blank disk image. This should work with the free version but I have no way to test.ĭarn, now that I think about it, doesn't the demo version of Virtual ][ have 'Evaluation Version' blazed across the screen while you use it? What fun would that be? Sorry, thought I had your free solution all figured out. It takes a fair amount of virtual ejecting and inserting disks to save and load your Odyssey game but I tried it and it works. The next time you boot from the Odyssey game, choose P instead of N and insert your save disk to load the game in progress. So make an initialized blank disk image first, and then when you are ready to quit the game, eject Odyssey, insert the blank disk, and save your game.

You can init a blank floppy disk image so long as you have the DOS System Master disk image to boot from first. You can play Odyssey with the Odyssey disk in the virtual drive 1 and when you quit the game you can choose to save your game to a virtual blank floppy disk by ejecting the Odyssey disk and inserting an initialized blank disk into drive 1.

I think I found a way to save an Odyssey game using the demo version of Virtual ][ emulator works exactly like a real Apple II or IIe.

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