[Coco] Trivia Fever

Robert Gault robert.gault at att.net
Sun Feb 23 16:00:15 EST 2014


Robert Gault wrote:

>
> I have seen the same thing with an OS-9 Level1 version2 disk. Error 43 means
> "unknown procedure" and is a Basic09 error. As the program is written in
> Basic09, that almost makes sense but not quite. I'm pretty sure something in the
> L1V2 system code is confusing the game rather than a missing B09 procedure.
>
> However, you can use any of the NitrOS-9 disks from Coco1 through Coco3_6309,
> and the game will run after you copy over the contents of the trivia fever
> disks. You will need to use ded to change all mentions of CCIO to VTIO that are
> present in kbdhack and hi_res.
> When you boot from these disks, just enter Trivia to start the game. You won't
> need to use kbdhack.
>
> Kbdhack seems pointless as it mainly resets the clock to 1984, Jan 1st, 1AM. It
> changes the CCIO code so that the message TRIVIA #40 is processed but then
> restores CCIO.
>

Ooops, I reported too soon. Doing the above, you can get through the game set up 
but it crashes when the questions start. Also key presses are double printed.





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