[Coco] running RSDOS games from hard drive?

[Boisy G. Pitre]

Fred,

What version of HDB-DOS are you using?
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On Sep 20, 2004, at 4:16 PM, Frederick D Provoncha wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 07:36:45 -0500 Mark Marlette <mmarlett at isd.net>
> writes:
>> At 9/20/2004 06:27 AM -0500, you wrote:
>>
>> Fred,
>>
>> Didn't you have hardware problems on your system with .dsk?? I don't
>>
>> remember the details on if it was determined to be on the CoCo or on
>> the PC
>> side. Could be that it reads fine but writes are bad?
>>
>> VERIFYON
>> DRIVEOFF
>> BACKUP 0 to xx
>>
>>
>> Try that.....See if you get errors. If no errors then place another
>> floppy
>> in the drive and
>>
>> VERIFYON
>> DRIVEOFF
>> BACKUP xx to 0
>>
>> Then loadm and run the game from the disk. Does it work???? This
>> makes the
>> full circle of testing on the CoCo.
>>
>> Mark
>
> Hey Mark,
>
> I don't think a definite conclusion was reached concerning my problems
> with .dsk images. The problem only existed with double-sided images. 
> The
> last suggestion I got was that it might be an alignment issue with the
> floppy drive, which I haven't verified yet. I finally developed a
> workaround using Drivewire to read the images, which worked!
>
> As for this problem, running Tutankaman from the hard drive, my gut 
> tells
> me it's a different problem, but I don't know. I followed your
> instructions in your last email exactly. At the end I tried LOADMing 
> and
> running the game from the disk and the Coco crashed just like it did 
> when
> I tried running it from the hard drive! I tried a few more times and
> finally on about the 6th try the game did run successfully from the 
> disk.
> So the game did finally run, but not nearly as reliably as before. But 
> so
> far, I've never gotten it to run successfully from the hard drive.
>
> What's also strange to me is that so many of my other games run just 
> fine
> off the hard drive. I have several other games on the same disk as
> Tutankaman, which were also copied back and forth from the floppy to 
> the
> hard drive in these tests you asked me to do above, and they all work
> whether loaded from the floppy or the hard drive. It's just Tutankaman
> that's not working. Strange.
>
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