[Coco] The ultimate VCC hard disk image using EmuDsk

[Travis Poppe]

HI Barry,

I'd be interested in giving this a go. Have you made the image available
anywhere?

Thank you!

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Barry Nelson <
barry.nelson at amobiledevice.com> wrote:

> Ok, a few notes.
>
> My hard disk image boots NitrOS9 level 2.
> The game is designed to run, and does run under Microware OS-9 level 2.
> The game does NOT run on NitrOS9 level 2 on physical hardware, even from
> an actual floppy disk.
> The game DOES run on VCC on NitrOS9 level 2 AND Microware OS-9 level 2.
> The games does require that /TERM be a 32 column screen.
> On NitrOS9 level 2 on actual hardware the system stops responding after
> the game is started before the game switches to a graphics screen.
> I have not found any reference /d0, and in any case I have tried running
> it from a real /d0 device using both NitrOS9 level 2 and Microware OS-9
> level 2 with the results noted above.
> I had not tried NitrOS9 level 1, it is interesting that it also did not
> work.
>
> > Robert Gault robert.gault at att.net
> > Mon Nov 23 19:56:41 EST 2015
> >
> > Barry Nelson wrote:
> > > Well, I have a working version of my hard disk file for the CoCo SDC,
> except for ONE program. The copy of Cave Walker of the hard disk image for
> the CoCo SDC does not work. Everything else (that I have tried at least)
> does work. Shall I post it as is? I am no closer to getting Cave Walker
> working than I was a week ago, and I do not know when or if I will solve
> this. Thoughts? I have a separate disk image using the old Microware OS-9
> level II that works on the CoCo SDC but I can not get it working on
> NitrOS9. The image also requires a customized version of HDBDOS for the
> CoCo SDC, so I think I will concentrate on making a user friendly program
> to install that to a flash bank and touch up my BASIC program that allow
> you to change the mounted CoCo SDC disks from basic. Feed back is welcome.
> > >
> >
> > Barry,
> >
> > I can get Cavewalker to run with MESS using Coco2b emulation. You must
> set
> > memory to 64K and that should do the trick.
> >
> > It may be possible to get the game to run on other systems such as
> Drivewire,
> > but a new boot file would need to be created containing the required
> drivers.
> >
> > The game is a Level I vr 2.00.00 which means it ought to work with a
> Coco3 if
> > you boot from a game disk. You won't be able to play the game after
> booting into
> > NitrOS-9 Level II.
> > What I have tried is to use a Coco3, boot a NitrOS-9 Level I Drivewire
> disk
> > mounted in Drivewire, and then change the disk to the Cavewalker disk.
> (You need
> > to use chd /dd and chx /dd/cmds.)
> > Entering 'cave' will start the game but it will not run. That is probably
> > because the game hard codes /D0 which won't work. I'm going to look
> through the
> > game files to see if /D0 entries can be changed to /DD. If so, the game
> should
> > run from a Coco3 via Drivewire.
> >
> > Robert
>
>
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