[Coco] Zork1,2 and 3 on OS-9 :)

Bill Loguidice bill at armchairarcade.com
Tue Apr 15 11:14:47 EDT 2014


Wonderful work, though you desperately need a tripod. ;-)

I've always been fascinated by CP/M for a variety of reasons and have a
wide range of systems and ways to run CP/M software. It's fantastic that
this can be done on the CoCo.

-Bill

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On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) <
retrocanada76 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Finally I found a bug in my CP/M emulator. After debugging hundreds of
> megabytes of CPU traces i finally found why it wasn't running.
>
> Now I can run Zork1, 2 and 3 in 80 columns using OS-9 Level 2 :)
>
> (Maybe I can sleep a little as well)
>
> See the video:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhYqyT9Sg-I&feature=youtu.be
>
> I still have a bug when exiting zork so I need to fix this first. But
> it is very fun running this game on OS-9.
>
> The list of usable software is so far:
>
> MBASIC
> DBase II
> SuperCalc
> WordStar 3.3
> Zork1, 2 and 3
>
> I'll be releasing soon a DW disk image with all compatible software
> for your delight. Just to say: Now I can run CP/M!
>
> I wish I could run Hitchhiker Guide to Galaxy but it uses Z-80
> instructions. I'm running out of user space for the TPA (program
> area). Maybe I implement just the instructions needed for this
> program.
>
> :)
>
> Felipe.
>



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