[Coco] More Newbie Questions for VCC

[Manny]

It might be worth it, if someone goes through the archives to change the
.dsk files to .os9, to also remove the duplicates.  I gotta wonder how much
space is used up by more than one copy of a disk being in several different
locations in the same archive.

-A.
 On Jan 25, 2014 5:21 AM, "Bill Pierce" <ooogalapasooo at aol.com> wrote:

>
> Glen,
> It's LOAD and LOADM, DOS is for booting OS9 and a very few rare programs
> that used the ommand as a loader.
> The filenames must be quoted as:
> LOAD"GAME/BAS"
> LOADM"GAME/BIN"
>
> bin is standard for machine language programs and bas for basic programs.
> Also... DIR to see the disk contents
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Glen VanDenBiggelaar <glenvdb at hotmail.com>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Sat, Jan 25, 2014 12:13 am
> Subject: Re: [Coco] More Newbie Questions for VCC
>
>
> doh!
> Ok, my biggest problem was realizing that nobody followed a standard for
> loading
> disks back then, I just remember the "Basic" 3 commands (DOS, DLOAD, and
> DLOADM). It's a good thing that most of the game manuals are on the CoCo
> archives.Now I can actually play some of the games, that I always wanted
> to as a
> kid. I just have to figure out how to "Screen record" them in Windows 7
> and then
> I can upload them to You-tube with a correct way of loading them up.
> I just finished playing Sinistar for the first time (one of my favorite
> Arcade
> games) and other than the voice a bit off, it was fun to play with an x-box
> wireless controller.
> For the record, I did find that the Sierra games that I tried (kings quest
> and
> Larry) worked fine.
>
> Now what is the "Clear" key mapped to? Most games want the clear key to
> flip
> color pallets. Playing sailor man with the xbox controller is pretty cool
> too.
> now to try to build z-89 from all the disk images.....
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