[Coco] Ghana Bwana on my Coco3 not working but ok on Coco2

[Ghislain Harvey]

Thanks for this! 
It's a bit late so I'm going to try this tomorrow.
I hope I did not bother you too much with this stuff.
Big thanks for your time.
Ghislain Harvey

-----Message d'origine-----
De : coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] De
la part de Robert Gault
Envoyé : January-04-08 9:14 PM
À : CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Objet : Re: [Coco] Ghana Bwana on my Coco3 not working but ok on Coco2

Bob Devries wrote:

> Robert:

> 

> There is something missing from the DSKI$ and DSKo$ commands... the 

> sector number!

> 

> It should read DSKI$ 0,34,X,A$,B$ where X is the sector number.

> 

> Can you enlighten us, mate?

> 

> -- 

> Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia

> 

> Isaiah 50:4 The sovereign Lord has given me

> the capacity to be his spokesman,

> so that I know how to help the weary.

> 

> website: http://www.home.gil.com.au/~bdevasl

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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Donaldson" 

> <johnadonaldson at sbcglobal.net>

> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>

> Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2008 11:24 AM

> Subject: Re: [Coco] Ghana Bwana on my Coco3 not working but ok on Coco2

> 

> 

> DSKI$, DSKO$, and MID$ are Disk Basic commands. Thus you have to take

> the statements and make a Basic program out of them. Then run the Basic

> program.

> 

> 10 DSKI$ 0,34,A$,B$

> 20 MID$(A$,106,1)=CHR$(254)

> 30 MID$(A$,122,1)=CHR$(254)

> 40 DSKO$ 0,34,A$,B$

> 

> 

> 

> John Donaldson

> 

> Ghislain Harvey wrote:

> 

>> It really doesn't work when I try this on M.E.S.S and VCC. I know they 

>> are

>> programming command but it seem I cannot use them just like I would 

>> use the

>> DSKINI command or DIR. I'll try to find out how to use those command. 

>> Thanks

>> for the reply.

>> Ghislain

>>

>> -----Message d'origine-----

>> De : coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com 

>> [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] De

>> la part de Bob Devries

>> Envoyé : January-04-08 8:09 PM

>> À : CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts

>> Objet : Re: [Coco] Ghana Bwana on my Coco3 not working but ok on Coco2

>>

>> Ghislain,

>>

>> You need to re-check that you have typed the commands correctly, 

>> EXACTLY as Robert has them.

>>

>> DSKI$ is a command in Disk Basic, and MID$ is in Extended Basic.

>>

>> -- 

>> Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia

>>

>> Isaiah 50:4 The sovereign Lord has given me

>> the capacity to be his spokesman,

>> so that I know how to help the weary.

>>

>> website: http://www.home.gil.com.au/~bdevasl

>> my blog: http://bdevries.invigorated.org/

>>

>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ghislain Harvey" 

>> <ghislainharvey at videotron.ca>

>> To: "'CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts'" <coco at maltedmedia.com>

>> Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2008 11:02 AM

>> Subject: Re: [Coco] Ghana Bwana on my Coco3 not working but ok on Coco2

>>

>>

>> Thanks again Robert for those very valuable info.

>> When you wrote dski$ do you mean dskini?

>> Because dski$ and MID$ are not real command. (give FC error)

>> Again sorry for my ignorance in coco programming.

>> Thanks.

>> Ghislain Harvey

>>

>> -----Message d'origine-----

>> De : coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com 

>> [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] De

>> la part de Robert Gault

>> Envoyé : January-04-08 7:52 PM

>> À : CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts

>> Objet : Re: [Coco] Ghana Bwana on my Coco3 not working but ok on Coco2

>>

>> Ghislain Harvey wrote:

>>

>>

>>> Hi Robert.

>>> Excuse My ignorance but how do you change the two bytes o the game 

>>> disk At

>>> Track-34 Sector-4?

>>> Thank for your time and for the information

>>> Ghislain Harvey

>>>

>>>

>>

>> There are several ways but as the patch program shows, you can

>> DSKI$ 0,34,A$,B$

>> MID$(A$,106,1)=CHR$(254)

>> MID$(A$,122,1)=CHR$(254)

>> DSKO$ 0,34,A$,B$

>> This assumes the game is in drive #0, puts track34 sector4 into strings

>> A$ and B$, changes the 106th and 122nd bytes to $FE and then writes the

>> data back to T34S4.

>>

>>

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Bob is correct I left out the sector value so both DSKI$ and DSKO$ 
should be 0,34,4,A$,B$

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