[Coco] CoCoSDC Saving Kings Quest Progress to disk.

[Alexander Wallace]

I did try chd and chx and then sierra as you suggest, but for some reason executing the program froze the CoCo.

The new Sierra disks that Guillaume prepared for the SDC did allow me to save the game so I’m all set now…

I need learn a lot more about SDC, VHDs, NitrOS and all that. Very exciting!

Thanks for the reply!

> On May 29, 2017, at 5:59 PM, Barry Nelson <barry.nelson at amobiledevice.com> wrote:
> 
>> Travis Poppe travispoppe at gmail.com  <mailto:coco%40maltedmedia.com?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BCoco%5D%20CoCoSDC%20Saving%20Kings%20Quest%20Progress%20to%20disk.&In-Reply-To=%3C20170528182737.GB1431%40lickwid.net%3E>
>> Sun May 28 14:27:37 EDT 2017
>> 
>> 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 <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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> 
> chd /dd/games/kq1
> chx /dd/games/kq1/cmds
> sierra
> 
> Most of the other games will run the same way.
> 
> 
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