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

[Aaron Wolfe]

"Unreadable path" typically indicates that Drivewire cannot access the
file.  This often is because it is in use by another process.  I've never
known it to have anything to do with file contents, that should be an
entirely different error.


On Tue, Aug 30, 2016, 1:05 AM Stephen Pereira <spereira1952 at comcast.net>
wrote:

> 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
> --
> 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
> >>>> --
> >>>> Stephen M. Pereira
> >>>> Bedford, NH  03110
> >>>> KB1SXE
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>
> >>
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