[Coco] Sierra games and DW

[Bill Pierce]

Charlie,
I just inserted the latest King's Quest 1 disk into DW4 slot 0, loaded hdbdos (no rom),
 and typed DOS <enter> (all from a cold start)
It booted, loaded, run, and I am playing it :-)

I'm running a Coco 3, 1 meg mem, hdbdos v1.4, dw4 v4.3.3o


Did you get the latest version of KQ 1? There were some problems with older builds as the bootfiles were not right.
Get the latest version here:

http://www.nitros9.org/latest/

If you got the disk from one of the archives, it's probably got a bad boot.
I'm going to update the files on The Color Computer Archives as I know they're not up to date.

Hope this helps

Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Charlie Pelosi <chaspelosi at outlook.com>
To: coco list <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wed, Oct 9, 2013 7:28 pm
Subject: [Coco] Sierra games and DW


I'm having trouble emailing the list I think because my reply address for my 
Microsoft account is a different alias than the primary I have subscribed to the 
list...
Hello.

I am trying to play The King's Quest games with a coco3 and drivewire4.

I downloaded KingsQuest1_dw.dsk from http://www.nitros9.org/latest/
I have a rompak in a COCO3 that has HDB-DOS 1.4 DW3 COCO 3 (Ive tried 1.2 also)
I am using the very latest DW4 in Windows.

When I mount the KingsQuest1_dw.dsk in drive 0 and type DOS to start Nitros9 
starts to boot.
When it gets to i2xoC and then the coco just hangs sitting there forever doing 
nothing.

Any ideas on what is wrong or how to get this to work?

I tried to send the above earlier and it didn't work. But that worked out 
because in the meantime I discovered something.

If I move the rom chip to an actual FD502 controller the boot gets past i2xoC 
and the game starts.
So I would guess because Nitros9 is loading a driver or looking for the disk 
hardware.
So is there a version that doesn't do that so that people loading from a simple 
rompak or even tape can boot these games with DW and enjoy them?

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