[Coco] Still having newbie issues

[Stephen Pereira]

Hi Darren,

Thank you very much for your response.  I greatly appreciate it.

Do you have any idea why Zork II and Zork III start up fine on my physical system with HDB-DOS but Zork i will not?  I hear you that Zork used its own code to access the disk, but don't you think that would also be the case for Zork II and Zork III also?

i don't really care if I cannot save a game because of the special disk access code, but why can Zork I start up and work on my VCC emulator, but it won't even start up on my physical system?

Thanks,

smp


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> Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 18:04:59 -0600
> From: Darren A <mechacoco at gmail.com>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Still having newbie issues
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> On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Stephen Pereira wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Hello again, all,
>> 
>> I am still having a problem with two programs that I can get to work on
>> the VCC emulator, running on my MacBook Pro in Windows XP on Parallels, but
>> I cannot get them to work on my physical system.  One program is Zork I,
>> and the other is Disk EDTASM.  Both of these .DSK files have been
>> downloaded from the Color Computer Archive.
>> 
>> My physical system is a CoCo 3, recently purchased from Cloud-9.  I made
>> up an EPROM cartridge, and I have HDB-DOS in EPROM, also purchased from
>> Cloud-9.  I am using Drivewire 3 at the moment, served up on a Dell Mini
>> laptop running Windows XP.  Everything works great in this setup, but I am
>> stymied by the fact that I cannot get these two programs to work, even
>> though both do work just fine with the VCC emulator.
> 
> 
> 
> I don't know about Disk EDTASM, but Zork uses its own code to access the
> disk and so would not work with DriveWire or HDB-DOS.
> 
> Darren
>