[Coco] [Color Computer] Getting Outhouse to run

[George Phillips]

I haven't done this in a while, but as I recall binary programs are run 
with LOADM and EXEC.  Try this:


LOADM"OUTHOUSE"
EXEC


                                                                 -- George


On 9/15/2013 7:42 AM, amigansoftware at gmail.com wrote:
>
> Hello all, I'm trying to run the Outhouse game (from Disk #5 at 
> http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/collections/collections.html).
>
> I haven't been able to get the DREaM and XRoar emulators to even boot 
> up, so I'm using Virtual CoCo (VCC) 1.42, which does at least boot.
>   I do Cartridge|FD-502 Drive 0|Insert and then choose jweaver.dsk.
>   If I now do a DIR I can see the files on the disk. But it's 
> impossible to load the game, eg.:
>
> LOAD"*" gives ?NE ERROR
> LOAD"OUTHOUSE" gives ?NE ERROR
> LOAD"OUTHOUSE.BIN" gives ?FM ERROR
> LOADM"OUTHOUSE" gives OK but then RUN gives ?SN ERROR IN 5 or LIST 
> hangs the guest
> DLOAD"OUTHOUSE" or DLOAD"OUTHOUSE.BIN" gives OK but then RUN or LIST 
> just give OK
>
> This game is also available as a raw binary (OUTHOUSE.ROM) but that 
> format doesn't seem supported by any emulator.
>
> (Most emulators have a friendlier way of d oing this that doesn't rely 
> on intimate familiarity with the guest architecture :-( or at least 
> have some docs that explain how to do it...I suspect these kind of 
> issues put a lot of curious people off from CoCo emulation, but anyway...)
>
> Has anyone had any luck getting this game or any other game to run?
>
> Regards
>
> James
>
>