[Coco] The Hobbit ported to 6809 (Dragon64 and coCo2 64k) - ENDED!

[Stephen Pereira]

Hi Brett,

Thanks very much for looking into this.

I have been running Drivewire 4 for a couple of years.  

FWIW, every once in a while I do a "check for new version” command, but it never seems to do anything.

smp
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Stephen M. Pereira
Bedford, NH  03110
KB1SXE


> On Aug 29, 2016, at 7:59 PM, Brett Gordon <beretta42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Not sure...probably a better question for Aaron.
> 
> It does seem to be a 1441 sector image...which means it is probably a 80
> track image PLUS one chunk as a header. BTW: This is probably not readable
> in BASIC from drivewire, unless drivewire suppports vdk images...BUT I have
> loaded some pretty weird sized files in drivewire.
> 
> begs to question: Pere: which flavor/ version of DW server did you test
> this on?  And Stephen: what version/flavor of DW are your running?
> 
> Ill see if i can duplicate your error tonight or tomorrow.
> 
> Funny coincidence: I seen "the hobbit" game for for Z80's a few months ago,
> thought it would be a cool port to fuzix. (coco Fuzix supports pmode 4)
> Here Pere took all the fun!  Boo!  ;)
> On Aug 29, 2016 7:35 PM, "Stephen Pereira" <spereira1952 at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Brett,
>> 
>> Thanks very much for asking.  Yes, this is an error message that I receive
>> from Drivewire on my mini laptop that’s been running Drivewire fine for a
>> long time, and continues to load and serve up all my other .DSK images
>> fine, still.
>> 
>> Is there some sort of .DSK image that can be created for the Dragon and
>> the CoCo that Drivewire cannot handle for some reason?
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> smp
>> --
>> Stephen M. Pereira
>> Bedford, NH  03110
>> KB1SXE
>> 
>> 
>>> On Aug 29, 2016, at 7:23 PM, Brett Gordon <beretta42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Aug 28, 2016 4:42 PM, "Stephen Pereira" <spereira1952 at comcast.net
>> <mailto:spereira1952 at comcast.net>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hello folks,
>>>> 
>>>> Please pardon my ignorance, but…
>>>> 
>>>> I have (only) a CoCo3FPGA and Drivewire 4 for my virtual disk drives.
>>>> 
>>>> I would like to try out the Hobbit program, but every time I attempt to
>>> install the .DSK image into Drivewire, I get an error message indicating
>> an
>>> "unreadable path.”
>>> 
>>> Is that an error being reported by the drivewire server?  That would be a
>>> strange error indeed.  Are you loading up thw .dsk from local disk or
>> over
>>> the web?
>>> 
>>>> Am I doing something wrong, or am I missing something?  I see that the
>>> program has beeb recently tested by many and updated to run with CoCo 3,
>> so
>>> I thought that I would be fine with my CoCo3FPGA.  I was not expecting a
>>> problem with Drivewire.
>>>> 
>>>> Your thoughts would be appreciated.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>> smp
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>>>> Stephen M. Pereira
>>>> Bedford, NH  03110
>>>> KB1SXE
>>>> 
>>>> 
>> 
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