[Coco] Zaxxon on disk from DataSoft can be made to run in MESS

[Robert Gault]

Just to get your blood running even faster, here is an MESS image of 
ZAXXON running from drive 110 on a .vhd image using RGBDOS.

The code was modified so that the drive number is no longer hard coded 
but uses whatever is in $EB. The program does not check for code loaded 
in low RAM nor does it look for info on track 7, sector 29. The loaders 
were removed and the program is now in LOADM format. A short Basic 
loader is used just to be sure that WIDTH32 is executed if running on a 
Coco3. The Basic program is saved in ASCII format so that WIDTH32 (as 
part of an IF statement) does not cause any errors even on a Coco1.



Chris Hawks wrote:
> ---Reply to mail from Robert Gault about [Coco] Zaxxon on disk from DataSoft can be made to run in MESS
> 
>>If anyone gets official permission from the copyright holders to release 
>>this game, I can post the .dsk image. If permission can't be obtained, 
>>those who have the ability to read the disk and alter ml code, should 
>>have enough information to create a working copy from this and previous 
>>messages.
> 
> 
>     That's it! I _gotta_ find my disk.
> 
> ---End reply
> 
> Christopher R. Hawks
> HAWKSoft
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> in the mad rush to upgrade systems to do things that aren't needed by
> people who don't understand what they are really supposed to do with them.
>     -- Graham Reed, in a.s.r.
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