[Coco] running RSDOS games from hard drive?

[Mark Marlette]

At 9/21/2004 06:40 PM -0600, Frederick D Provoncha wrote:

Fred,

Boisy guessed that is what you were using by the symptoms you described. I 
will let him explain.....

Mark


>On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 16:45:20 -0500 mmarlett at isd.net writes:

> > Fred,

> >

> > This is a BAD sign if you can't complete the loop of copies. Either

> > the

> > game is copy protected, which I doubt or you have hardware

> > problems.

> >

> > There is NO reason on a totally working CoCo, non protected disk

> > that the

> > sequence I listed wouldn't copy the disk correctly.

> >

> > RAM problems???  You had NO VERIFY errors correct? Then the disk

> > should

> > work as it works on the original. Robert indicates that it works

> > under

> > emulation so it REALLY points the problem to your system.

> >

> > My $0.02.

> >

> > Mark

>

>To answer Boisy's question, I'm actually running RGB-DOS.

>

>To answer your questions Mark, actually I was getting a lot of OB Errors

>while the Verify was switched on. I don't recall ever seeing that error

>before, I had to look it up in the manual to find out what it was. But in

>spite of the error, I was able to perform the backup procedures you

>outlined.

>

>As far as the possibility of RAM problems go, wouldn't there be other

>symptoms? I haven't noticed any other odd behavior from my Coco. All my

>other games work fine. Until I see some additional problems popping up

>that could be attributed to RAM problems, I'm not really going to worry

>about it.

>

>I've spent too much time on this problem already. Whatever the nature of

>the problem is, it's only affecting my ability to play one game

>(Tutankamen) directly from the hard drive. I don't even play the game

>that often. And if I do want to play it, I can still play it from a

>floppy, which is easy enough to do. All my other games work just fine.

>I'm not going to worry about this anymore.

>

>Thank you very much everyone for your help. I appreciate it.

>

>Fred Provoncha