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

[Michael Brant]

Phill, if you load the rom version fron the colorcomputerarchive of the
aforementioned games do they load and run as expected? These games are in
the archive in both forms

On Sep 3, 2017 6:58 AM, "Phill Harvey-Smith" <afra at ramoth.org.uk> wrote:

> 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.
>
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