[Coco] Still having newbie issues

[Nick Marentes]

Sounds like it's using it's own disk I/O routines which expect a real 
(or emulated) floppy controller.

I assume Zork 2 and 3 were just improvements to be more compatible with 
all controllers/Disk Basic's.

I sure hope Darren A makes more of his CoCoFDC controllers. This is a 
fantastic controller that emulates the FDC to an SD card so all fussy 
programs still work yet it still supports drivewire.

I love my CoCoFDC!   :)


Nick


On 10/07/2014 10:22 AM, Stephen Pereira wrote:
> 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
>
>
>> Message: 15
>> 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
>>