[Coco] [Color Computer] Getting Outhouse to run

[Christopher Smith]

What George said.  When you type RUN, the computer tries to run a program in BASIC.  Since there's no BASIC code in memory (one presumes), this doesn't work too well. :)  Type EXEC instead and it should start right up.  

Chris

----- Original Message -----
> From: "George Phillips" <gp2000 at shaw.ca>
> To: ColorComputer at yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2013 11:01:40 AM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] [Color Computer] Getting Outhouse to run
> 
> 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
> >
> > 
> 
> 
> 
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Christopher Smith
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