[Coco] Dragon snapshots now patched

[Richard Ivey]

I'm playing through some of these and some are really good.. THe Moon
Cresta is nearly 100% accurate!  Minus color.  Thanks for your hard hard
hard hard work.. Keep em coming.. Going to transfer these to my sd card
rompack.



On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 10:54 PM, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) <
retrocanada76 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've patched the keyboard for the games that do use it.
>
>
> https://sites.google.com/site/tandycocoloco/dropbox/snapshot.zip?attredirects=0&d=1
>
> Since all games use either LDA #$FF00, LDB #$FF00, CMPA #$FF00 or CMPB
> #$FF00 i made entry points for them and just replace manually the 3-byte
> instruction for a JSR addr on the memory snapshots. It can't be made by the
> loader cause I would have false positives for between instructions and also
> fro graphics/sounds.
>
> It works for these games, but for games that are very time accurate like
> DragonFire it wouldn't work since extra cycles are added.
>
> Well I think all games in the pak are playable in a coco1/2. They work on
> coco3 but the game Back Track uses semigraphics for menus, so you will have
> a strange menu screen. But the game is still playable.
>
> Makefile is more complex now to embed the patch in the middle.
>
>
>
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