[Coco] Dungeons of Daggorath disk version

[Charlie]

Hi Robert.

The version you pointed out is just a dump of the cart rom. That does run 
under DW from disk or rom no problems.
The version I am talking about here is a special disk based version. You run 
it from disk and while playing you can issue ZLOAD NAME or ZSAVE NAME to 
save and load games directly to the disk. So much better than using a tape 
drive like the cart version. I forget the details but it was sold as a patch 
by a 3rd part company back in the coco's day.
The problem with running this version with DW loaded from disk is that in 
the game if you ZSAVE or ZLOAD it looks to the real floppy hardware. So the 
game starts but it is the in game commands hard coded for looking at the 
floppy.
I'll attach it here again and you can check it out. The .DAG files are my 
saved games. Once the game is started and your playing type ZLOAD WIZFINAL 
and it will load that game.
Even on a floppy system it can be buggy though and you may have to type it 
again if the game says error.

Charlie


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From: "Robert Gault" <robert.gault at att.net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 8:04 PM
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Subject: Re: [Coco] Dungeons of Daggorath disk version

> 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.
>> If this version was patch for use with DW it would allow anyone that can 
>> build a cable to play DoD without the need to have a cassette player / 
>> cable.
>> "diskdag" also supports some cool things like a real pause and CLEAR 
>> repeats your last command.
>>
>> Just thought I would ask. This seems like it would be a great thing for 
>> the coco, Dungeons of Daggorath being one of the coco's most famous 
>> games.
>>
>> Charlie
>>
>
> I've got a version of D of D which works with Drivewire. In fact, it works 
> when DW HDBDOS is loaded from disk and not in ROM. The only thing to 
> remember is that the game needs an explicit exec.
> LOADM"DAGGORAT":EXEC
>
> The game is available at
> http://tandycoco.com/rsdos.html
> on GAMES23.DSK from one of the collections. It will be in Briza's 
> Collection but that is massive. I believe it is in COCO 1,2&3 GAMES in a 
> Coco Games Disks sub folder.
>
> Robert
>
>
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