[Coco] running RSDOS games from hard drive?

[Mark Marlette]

At 9/21/2004 06:40 PM -0600, Frederick D Provoncha wrote:

Fred,

Boisy guessed that is what you were using by the symptoms you described. I 
will let him explain.....

Mark

>On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 16:45:20 -0500 mmarlett at isd.net writes:
> > Fred,
> >
> > This is a BAD sign if you can't complete the loop of copies. Either
> > the
> > game is copy protected, which I doubt or you have hardware
> > problems.
> >
> > There is NO reason on a totally working CoCo, non protected disk
> > that the
> > sequence I listed wouldn't copy the disk correctly.
> >
> > RAM problems???  You had NO VERIFY errors correct? Then the disk
> > should
> > work as it works on the original. Robert indicates that it works
> > under
> > emulation so it REALLY points the problem to your system.
> >
> > My $0.02.
> >
> > Mark
>
>To answer Boisy's question, I'm actually running RGB-DOS.
>
>To answer your questions Mark, actually I was getting a lot of OB Errors
>while the Verify was switched on. I don't recall ever seeing that error
>before, I had to look it up in the manual to find out what it was. But in
>spite of the error, I was able to perform the backup procedures you
>outlined.
>
>As far as the possibility of RAM problems go, wouldn't there be other
>symptoms? I haven't noticed any other odd behavior from my Coco. All my
>other games work fine. Until I see some additional problems popping up
>that could be attributed to RAM problems, I'm not really going to worry
>about it.
>
>I've spent too much time on this problem already. Whatever the nature of
>the problem is, it's only affecting my ability to play one game
>(Tutankamen) directly from the hard drive. I don't even play the game
>that often. And if I do want to play it, I can still play it from a
>floppy, which is easy enough to do. All my other games work just fine.
>I'm not going to worry about this anymore.
>
>Thank you very much everyone for your help. I appreciate it.
>
>Fred Provoncha