[Coco] Tapes that load into the Cartridge area......

[Phill Harvey-Smith]

Hi all,

In the final testing of DragonMMC we have found a couple of programs 
that load from other media (one is a tape image, the other a disk 
image), that when loaded and run flip the machine into 64K RAM mode, 
copy the rom from $8000 to $BFFF to RAM and then re-locate themselves to 
$c000, before running. These where obviously originally distributed as 
cartridges but converted to tape / disk.

Just how common are these in the coco world?

The two examples I found where :

"Micro chess" which was on a .DSK file. and
"Clowns and Balloons" which was a cas file.

DragonMMC can load them just fine, but once loaed it of course can't be 
accessed as the machine is now in RAM mode and it's ROM is paged out.

Cheers.

Phill.

-- 
Phill Harvey-Smith, Programmer, Hardware hacker, and general eccentric !

"You can twist perceptions, but reality won't budge" -- Rush.