[Coco] Lansford Mansion (and other graphic adventures)
Roger Taylor
operator at coco3.com
Sat Nov 3 10:56:17 EDT 2007
At 12:08 AM 11/3/2007, you wrote:
>Robert,
>
>Thanks so much for your welcome, and for your help: I was able to
>open the binaries for Black Sanctum and Sea Search in a hex editor,
>append $00 to the end, and now they load! I knew that the IE error
>meant that there was some sort of end-of-file problem, but I didn't
>know exactly what to look for or how to fix it, so I'm very grateful
>for your help.
>
>I'm hopeful that the binaries will be otherwise uncorrupted -- of
>the four Mark Data games I've played, only Shenanigans had problems
>(crashing at the very end of the game, i.e. "Sean"). As for saving
>to disk rather than tape, we're able to use emulator savestates, so
>I think we're OK. However, if I ever get these games up and running
>on real hardware, I'd love to avail myself of your patch.
>
>For what it's worth, these are the adventure games we've played so
>far, completing all of them but Lansford Mansion:
>
>Blackbeard's Island
>Caladuril Flame of Light (an amazing technical feat, IMHO)
>Calixto Island (probably my favorite of the Mark Data games so far)
>Lansford Mansion (sigh)
>Martian Crypt
>Shenanigans
>Trekboer
>Vortex Factor
Can someone e-mail me a .dsk image or the individual .bin files for
the above games so I can make sure I have all of them?
Thanks
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