[Coco] Re: running RSDOS games from hard drive?

[Charlie]

Fred, arent a couple of those games like Zenix and Draconian copy protected?
I can't even make floppy copies of those.
I did find Draconian on the web as a backup, but not Zenix. Or Crystal City 
for that matter.
Charlie

"Frederick D Provoncha" <elderpav at juno.com> wrote in 
message news:20040918.154153.1356.1.elderpav at juno.com...
> On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 12:15:30 -0700 (PDT) Robert Emery
> <theother_bob at yahoo.com> writes:
>> Something I've found now that I'm using HDB-DOS with a real HD...
>> many games
>> run fine from the HD, including most or all of Nick M's games
>> (cool!) but many,
>> even some that are a single binary file, lock up as they attempt to
>> access the
>> floppy drive.
>>
>> So I wonder if I go in and look for places where a program accesses
>> $FF40 and
>> just change that to $FF70, would that work? or is there more to it
>> than that?
>>
>> Too bad we don't have HDB-DOS unravelled!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bob Emery
>
> I can vouch for Robert on this. I've noticed several games that will not
> run from a hard drive but will run fine from a floppy drive:
>
> Games that will not run from a hard drive:
> PacDude 2
> Cosmic Ambush
> Zenix
> Pegasus and the Phantom Riders (it's hard-coded for floppy)
> Cubix
> Draconian
> Tutankaman
>
> Games that will run from a hard drive:
> Pac Man
> Gate Crasher
> Most other Nicholas Marentes games
> Spider Hyper
> Phantom Slayer
> Blox
> Downland
> Sea Dragon
> Kong
> Nerble
>
> This list obviously isn't comprehensive. I left off all the games that
> require more than one disk to run, and all games that are copy-protected,
> as well as cartridge games and OS-9 games for obvious reasons. That's a
> lot. Are there  any other disk games that run under RS-DOS that people
> know about that won't run on a hard drive?
>
> Fred Provoncha
>
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