[Coco] Dungeons of Daggorath disk version

[Robert Gault]

Charlie wrote:
> 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
>

Charlie,

You must be trying a different file from the one I referenced. The DAGGORAT.BIN 
I referred to is not a rom dump. It is on a disk and LOADM works with it.

If you can't find it at the url I gave, I can send you a copy of the .dsk image.

Robert