[Coco] Christmas Holiday CoCo 3 crash question

Robert Gault robert.gault at att.net
Sun Jun 10 17:05:42 EDT 2018


Mark,

It is possible that the disks you made are bad. I just downloaded the demo from
http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Disks/Demos/Radio-Shack%20Coco%203%20Christmas%20Demo.zip
and it works on my Coco3.
Now the zip file contains two .dsk images representing sides 1 & 2 of the original flippy. I made 
two disks from the images and switched disks rather than trying to make a flippy. I mounted the 
images in Drivewire and did BACKUPs to the CoCo disks.

The demo does not work with with disks mounted on Drivewire probably because the ml program is 
trying to read floppies with it's own code. The same is likely with the CoCoSDC.

Robert

Mark Anderson wrote:
> I’m having a problem with the holiday demo from 1986 by Spectral Associates always crashing when the Radio Shack truck is driving through the forest. It plays fine on VCC but not in my real CoCo 3.
>
> I’ve tried it with CoCoSDC, real floppies that I made on a CoCo disk drive and DriveWire 4.  All methods crash during the forest/truck scene besides VCC.
>


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