[Coco] Ghana Bwana on my Coco3 not working but ok on Coco2

Bob Devries devries.bob at gmail.com
Fri Jan 4 20:49:47 EST 2008


Robert:

There is something missing from the DSKI$ and DSKo$ commands... the sector 
number!

It should read DSKI$ 0,34,X,A$,B$ where X is the sector number.

Can you enlighten us, mate?

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Donaldson" <johnadonaldson at sbcglobal.net>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2008 11:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Ghana Bwana on my Coco3 not working but ok on Coco2


DSKI$, DSKO$, and MID$ are Disk Basic commands. Thus you have to take
the statements and make a Basic program out of them. Then run the Basic
program.

10 DSKI$ 0,34,A$,B$
20 MID$(A$,106,1)=CHR$(254)
30 MID$(A$,122,1)=CHR$(254)
40 DSKO$ 0,34,A$,B$



John Donaldson

Ghislain Harvey wrote:

>It really doesn't work when I try this on M.E.S.S and VCC. I know they are
>programming command but it seem I cannot use them just like I would use the
>DSKINI command or DIR. I'll try to find out how to use those command. 
>Thanks
>for the reply.
>Ghislain
>
>-----Message d'origine-----
>De : coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] De
>la part de Bob Devries
>Envoyé : January-04-08 8:09 PM
>À : CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
>Objet : Re: [Coco] Ghana Bwana on my Coco3 not working but ok on Coco2
>
>Ghislain,
>
>You need to re-check that you have typed the commands correctly, EXACTLY as 
>Robert has them.
>
>DSKI$ is a command in Disk Basic, and MID$ is in Extended Basic.
>
>--
>Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia
>
>Isaiah 50:4 The sovereign Lord has given me
>the capacity to be his spokesman,
>so that I know how to help the weary.
>
>website: http://www.home.gil.com.au/~bdevasl
>my blog: http://bdevries.invigorated.org/
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Ghislain Harvey" <ghislainharvey at videotron.ca>
>To: "'CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts'" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2008 11:02 AM
>Subject: Re: [Coco] Ghana Bwana on my Coco3 not working but ok on Coco2
>
>
>Thanks again Robert for those very valuable info.
>When you wrote dski$ do you mean dskini?
>Because dski$ and MID$ are not real command. (give FC error)
>Again sorry for my ignorance in coco programming.
>Thanks.
>Ghislain Harvey
>
>-----Message d'origine-----
>De : coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] De
>la part de Robert Gault
>Envoyé : January-04-08 7:52 PM
>À : CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
>Objet : Re: [Coco] Ghana Bwana on my Coco3 not working but ok on Coco2
>
>Ghislain Harvey wrote:
>
>
>>Hi Robert.
>>Excuse My ignorance but how do you change the two bytes o the game disk At
>>Track-34 Sector-4?
>>Thank for your time and for the information
>>Ghislain Harvey
>>
>>
>
>There are several ways but as the patch program shows, you can
>DSKI$ 0,34,A$,B$
>MID$(A$,106,1)=CHR$(254)
>MID$(A$,122,1)=CHR$(254)
>DSKO$ 0,34,A$,B$
>This assumes the game is in drive #0, puts track34 sector4 into strings
>A$ and B$, changes the 106th and 122nd bytes to $FE and then writes the
>data back to T34S4.
>
>
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