[Coco] CoCoSDC Saving Kings Quest Progress to disk.

[Alexander Wallace]

I’ll give that a try, maybe changing the current command folder to king’s quest would do the trick.

Thanks for the reply! I’ll let you know what I figure out.

It would surely be cool if one could mount several SDC disks in NitrOS9 though…

Thanks again!

> On May 28, 2017, at 1:27 PM, Travis Poppe <travispoppe at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 08:41:48AM -0500, Alexander Wallace wrote:
>> Hi All, 
>> 
>> I’m very new to the great SDC and barely remember anything about OS9.
>> I’m in the process of re-learning.
>> 
>> But for the interim, I got both my 16 and 13 year olds excited about
>> playing KQI. It’s very easy to die, so I want to save the progress.
>> When I attempt to do so, it complains the disk is full.
>> 
>> Is it possible to create another SDC image and mount it from within
>> NitrOs9? I’ve searched google and I know some patches have been made
>> to support the SDC on NitrOs9, but not sure if this is available to
>> these KQI images… If not, is there other way to save the progress? I
>> don’t have an MPI.
> 
> A possible workaround is to download Barry Nelson's NitrOS9 virtual hard
> drive and run King's Quest from it instead. A bit overkill, but it ought
> to have free disk space:
> 
> https://europa.lickwid.net/cocosdc/ULTIMSDC-2017-01-16/VHD/NO6809BN.VHD.gz
> 
> This will need to be uncompressed with a utility like 7-Zip.
> 
> Unfortunately I am not sure how to properly launch the game from the VHD
> image. Perhaps Barry could weigh in on that? Entering the full path to
> the game (/dd/games/kq1/cmds/sierra) doesn't seem to work. 
> 
> Regards,
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