Using GTK3VICE-3.4-win64-r37296 (C64SC) with True Drive Emulation and Drive Sounds for that authentic screaming 5.25" floppy reading.

Oh stage 4, your evil knows no bounds.

Finally a good run on the unedited disks. Turns out starting on Disk 2 loads the game faster as it skips the title screen. The hacked version is wholesale better though as it's one disk with less loads and a much better, unmarred by copyprotection bootloader.