[Coco] NitrOS-9 V3.3.0 and DriveWire

Willard Goosey goosey at virgo.sdc.org
Thu Apr 1 03:58:43 EDT 2010


On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 08:48:56PM -0400, Robert Gault wrote:
> I've just started looking at this game. It uses Level I and has the modules 
> RS232 and T1 in the os9boot file. Perhaps T1 is used by Odyssey but I'll 
> need to do some testing.

I don't have the manual.  Is there a 2-player mode?  Either that or
they just used a standard kernel image. 

> The version I have is 1.0 which has an oddball line in the owner's manual 
> for starting the game. "If you boot from a separate OS-9 system disk, put 
> the Robot Odyssey disk in drive 0 and type CHX /D0/CMDS. Type RUN "ROBOT" 
> [ENTER] to start Robot Odyssey."

HA!  That's real good.  Someone couldn't decide which OS it should run
under.

>Actually the file MENU in the CMDS directory is internally named 
> ROBOT. That's what you would see if the module were loaded into memory.

Yeah, I remember that now.  That's about as far as I got debugging
it, though.    

Willard
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