[Coco] New Topic "sounds of the hounds"

[Arthur Flexser]

As Boisy said, it's an April Fool joke by Terry Simons.  As for the error, I can
add that early versions, at least, did not run properly if you had a 6309
installed in your machine, due to an EXEC into the middle of an instruction that
was an ignored illegal opcode under the 6809, but which the 6309 vectored to its
error handler address, which was not initialized to do anything and so executed
random code on the base page.  (I was a beta tester, if you can call it that.)  
One of the extremely few cases where it makes a difference under BASIC which
processor you have.

Art

On Sun, 23 Oct 2005, Glen VanDenBiggelaar wrote:

> 
> Ok, to bring you all up to speed, Last spring, I got a stack of floppies 
> from ebay, and quickly tested them out and threw a bunch on my online store. 
> Last week, Brian e-mailed me about a Game "Sounds of the hounds" so this 
> morning I loaded it up to do a full review on my website.
> It loads up a nice title screen and then goes into speech mode and says (the 
> hounds are...) but sounds like the nouns are... and repeats over about 20 
> times, then I get a "?NE in line 720" error.
> 
> I have done a Google search and have found 2 stories on the disk, First 
> saying it was an "April Fools" joke disk that makes it look like it will 
> crash your system, and the second saying that it is a full game and 
> playable, but you have to figure out how to run it.
> 
> My question is does anyone remember this disk, and what is the solution, I 
> am trying to tinker with the disk, loading up some other files on it, but 
> nothing is working yet. I will just keep plugging away - and pull this disk 
> off the online store until I can find some answer.
> -Glen
> 
> 
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