[Coco] COCO to PC transfer and Using VCC

[Joel Ewy]

Allan,

You might check out the disk image called coco_archive.iso on
ftp://ftp.rtsi.com/OS9/OS9_6X09/
This is of course a CD image, which is huge, and will have to be
downloaded and burned onto a CD.  It looks like there is a disk image of
Paladin's Legacy in there.  The archive comes with an HTML document
which notes that that game "may not work with emulators (?)".  I notice
that it is only one side of a double-sided, 35 track disk, so there may
be missing data, if you say it used two disk sides.  There may be other
sources for it on the Internet.

FWIW.

JCE

Allan Chaney wrote:
> COCO Folks,
>
> At the request of my kids, I recently unpacked my old Color Computer 3 after
> almost 20 years of deep storage.  I had mentioned to them that I programmed
> a video game that was published and they wanted to play it.  Unbelievably
> after unpacking and cleaning everything the game still worked along with the
> COCO3, Floppy Drive and Multi-Pack.
>
> The game I wrote is called "Paladin's Legacy" and it was published by Sundog
> Systems in 1989. It is an RPG adventure/action game for COCO I,I and III
> with 64k and floppy drive.  I would like to preserve and run the game in a
> modern PC system using VCC Emulator.  After reading about VCC at
> vcc6809.bravehost.com, if I understand correctly, I should be able to run my
> game on my Windows XP PC with VCC.  VCC will create a virtual disk that
> handles the floppy disk access from my game. However my problem is getting
> my game files transferred to a windows PC from the COCO.  The files that
> make up my game are almost all Binary (.bin) with a few basic files.  I also
> still have the source files (.asc).  I don't have a PC with 5.25 floppy so I
> am unable to use VCC to read the old Tandy Floppy Drive (assuming that that
> is even possible).
>
> I visited www.thesvd.com  and found a product called SVD (Semi-Virtual Disk)
> that will copy images of files/floppies from an old COCO to a modern Windows
> PC over RS232 (or in my case a usb-RS232 converter).  I don't have a PC with
> RS232 but apparently I can use a USB-RS232 converter.  
>
> My real question is if I buy SVD and copy the images of my game disks to my
> PC, do you think VCC will run my game?  The game uses a lot of disk access
> since it's a two sided RPG.  The game requires you to flip the disk when you
> enter cities and then flip back when you go back to the main world map.
>
> Thanks for any help anyone can offer.
>
> Allan
>
>
> Allan Chaney
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