[Coco] COCO to PC transfer and Using VCC

[Allan Chaney]

JP,

I was also able to get Paladin's Legacy running in VCC just as you and Joel
Ewy directed by using the coco_archive.iso.  I burned the iso image to CD,
pulled off 145AG_02.dsk and accessed the disk from VCC.  That's pretty cool.

Unfortunately, the colors are really out of wack.  If you choose N on the
"Do you have a color monitor?" question it only shows up in Black and White.
If you choose Y then the colors are messed up especially while looking at
the text.  

Is that a VCC limitation?

It's really too bad Side 2 of the disk was not imaged as well.  That would
have saved me a lot of trouble.

I also found the manual on the iso image at scans/manuals/pdf/paladin's
Legacy.pdf

They did a nice job of scanning the manual in scrollable book format.


Allan

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of J.P. Samson
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 11:10 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] COCO to PC transfer and Using VCC

On Sep 10, 2008, at 9:54 PM, J.P. Samson wrote:
> On Sep 10, 2008, at 9:45 PM, Joel Ewy wrote:
>> 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.
>
> So I'm not sure the image in that archive is functional, though I've  
> not yet tried it. It may be that Tim Lindner or Ken Carlin have the  
> original Paladin's Legacy disks in their to-do pile.

Okay, I tried the Paladin disk image in that collection on VCC.

Seems to run okay.  I don't have instructions on how to play the  
game.  Randomly running around and hitting keys, it did ask for a  
"city disk" at one point.  Since there don't appear to be any  
additional disks available in this collection, my attempt to enter the  
city failed.

-- JP


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