[Coco] Sierra games and DW

[Charlie Pelosi]

Also, it is not just the Sierra games. I just tried the arcadepack_dw.dsk 
and Nitros9 fails at boo the same way. I hangs at i2xoC.


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From: "Charlie Pelosi" <chaspelosi at outlook.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2013 11:08 PM
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Subject: Re: [Coco] Sierra games and DW

> Hi Aaron. I have three 512K coco3's here all act the same. So it can't be 
> the computer. And DW works fine if the disk controller is in.
> So it must be something with the ROMPAK and or the ROM I am using. Can 
> someone point me at the exactly .rom file I should burn ?
> I think the versions I've tried where HDB-DOS 1.4 DW3 coco 3 and the same 
> 1.2 that I got years ago from Boisy.
>
> When I soldered in the socket, it was a Football II cart, I simply 
> unsoldered the game chip and soldered in the socket.
> Nothing else. I don't think any soldering is bad because I have two of 
> these and they both do the same.
>
>
>
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> From: "Aaron Wolfe" <aawolfe at gmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2013 10:01 PM
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Sierra games and DW
>
>> On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 7:28 PM, Charlie Pelosi <chaspelosi at outlook.com> 
>> wrote:
>>> 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?
>>>
>>
>> The version you have is not intended to require a disk controller.
>> Last time I played it, it worked here with just a CoCo 3 and DW3 rom
>> in a rompak, no additional hardware.  That was a while back, it is
>> possible some bug has been introduced.  However, Bill is not seeing a
>> problem currently.  I don't have things set up to test at the moment
>> but I think it is possible the need for a disk controller on your
>> system is a side effect of some other problem.  It is definitely not
>> by design.
>>
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