[Coco] CoCoSDC Saving Kings Quest Progress to disk.

Guillaume Major guillaume.major at gmail.com
Sun May 28 21:52:13 EDT 2017


Hi Alexander,

There was a problem with the Coco SDC version of most of the Sierra games in 
the archive. They have been fixed now and ready to be downloaded:

http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com

Enjoy!

Guillaume


"Alexander Wallace" 
<alexander.o.wallace at gmail.com> wrote in 
message news:8A817875-75D5-4C81-9304-E2A184C3EF61 at gmail.com...
> 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,
>> -- 
>> Travis Poppe
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