[Coco] Dungeons of Daggorath disk version

[Charlie]

Tested with a coco3, HDB-DOS from a rom.
The game works but is not really playable because of the highspeed.

This is my problem with HDB-DOS and DW on the coco3.
I wish there was a gamers version. It would go to high speed for IO but then 
back to normal speed.
Or maybe detect the speed before access , high speed for access, if it was 
normal before access switch back normal.
Something like that... what do I know?

I should have rom versions for my coco1 and coco2 very soon. So at least I 
can play from DW on those machines.

Still, I'd like to see the game patched to work from either ram or rom. I 
know many people load DW from tape or disk.
I normally load from disk on my coco3 because I do not want the high speed 
as a default. So I stay with the default system rom since I still use 
floppies a lot.

Like I said before DoD is a famous game for the coco, would make it a lot 
easier to get in to for many people.

That's my suggestion. Thanks for listening. :-)

Charlie




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From: "Darren A" <mechacoco at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2012 2:56 PM
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Subject: Re: [Coco] Dungeons of Daggorath disk version

> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 7:05 AM, Charlie  wrote:
>> Has anyone considered patching the disk based version of Dungeons of 
>> Daggorath to work with DriveWire?
>> I have this "diskdag" version that supports loading and saving right from 
>> the floppy drive.
>> It only works with an actual drive though. You can start the game via DW 
>> but if you attempt to zsave / zload it goes to the real hardware.
>
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>
> Are you loading HDB-DOS DW into RAM or running it from a ROM?  It
> definitely won't work with HDB-DOS in RAM because the patched DOD code
> is loaded into the same location.
>
> The patched DOD does not directly access the floppy hardware. It
> detects which version of Disk Basic is present and makes calls to
> specific locations in the ROM to read and write files.  It should be
> detecting HDB-DOS as Disk Basic 1.1.
>
> Darren
>
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