[Coco] Re: Kyum-Gai OS-9 version

[Frederick D Provoncha]

Charlie,

Ah yes, I have those games too. They are great! I especially love Zenix
and Sinistaar. My copy of Zenix is relatively new. I bought it from Jim
Davis about 3 years ago. Unfotunately, he no longer sells copies :-( It
also appears to me that my copy of Zenix is NOT copy-protected. I made a
backup copy that seems to work just fine.

As for Sinistaar, I bought that game on eBay a few months ago. They were
old disks, and quite out of shape. At first they wouldn't run. I kept
getting I/O errors. Then I stumbled upon a suggestion made by someone to
open up the disk sleeve, take out the mylar disk inside, and delicately
clean it in a bowl of warm water with a touch of dish soap added. I then
gently dried it off and inserted it back into the sleeve. I tried again
to load and run the game on the Coco and it worked! The game runs great
now. I never would have tried this on a functioning disk. The disk wasn't
working anyway, so I figured I had nothing to lose. It appears that some
old floppy disks may possibly have their life extended a bit longer using
this technique.

Again, I recommend trying this only on disks that do not work at all and
would otherwise be unuseable.

Fred Provoncha


On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 15:53:38 -0400 "Charlie" <chazbeenhad at hotmail.com>
writes:
> Yes! Someone was nice enough to let me try the OS-9 version. Your 
> right, it
> runs great from a hard disk.
> I also have the rsdos version. The OS-9 version seems to be 
> identical. Same
> sounds, speed and everything.
> This is great stuff. I love the sundog coco3 games. I wish other 
> Sundog
> games, like Sinistar disk 1, Warrior King, and others, were copyable 
> like
> this. One of my biggest "coco fears" is my favorite game disks going 
> bad. I
> play this stuff all the time, and I'm worried I'll wear them out. 
> Plus I
> have a 6 yr old son playing Zenix all the time! :-p
> 
> Charlie
> 
> "Frederick D Provoncha" <elderpav at juno.com> wrote in
> message news:20040802.194249.1760.0.elderpav at juno.com...
> > I have the OS-9 version of Kyum-Gai. It CAN be installed on and 
> run from
> > a hard drive. It actually runs quite nicely from my hard drive. In 
> fact,
> > I even have it set up under Multi-Vue, though that was a little 
> tricky. I
> > don't have the RS-DOS version so I can't compare the two versions. 
> I
> > imagine the RS-DOS version might run a little smoother, since it 
> doesn't
> > have to multitask with anything.
> >
> > Fred Provoncha
> > Stansbury Park, UT
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 2 Aug 2004 10:41:04 -0400 "Charlie"
> <chazbeenhad at hotmail.com>
> > writes:
> > > Does anyone have the Sundog game Kyum-Gai OS-9 version? Can this 
> game
> > > be
> > > copied and / or run from a harddrive ?
> > >
> > > How does the game compare to the RS-DOS version? I've always
> > > wondered about
> > > this.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Charlie
> > >
> > >
> > >
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