[Coco] 3D Deathchase demo.

[Roger Taylor]

At 06:30 PM 1/2/2009, you wrote:

>"Roger Taylor" <operator at coco3.com> wrote in

>message news:20090102011020.091B920A13 at qs281.pair.com...

> >>Hi!  I have released a demo version of the "Spectrum classic" 3D

> >>Deathchase

> >>for the CoCo 1/2 & Dragon.  This demo requires 32K of RAM and is available

> >>in CAS, WAV or DSK format.

> >

> > Could you post the URL to the unzipped .dsk image so I can mount it with

> > CoCoNet?  :)

>

>An interesting idea, I've stuck it up at:

>http://www.indigobanquet.adsl24.co.uk/coco/deathchase/dchs.dsk

>

>Should see whether you can load a new game directly from a rather far away

>location on the internet. :)


The disk mounted in less than a second, but it's garbled, probably 
due to the fact that CoCoNet currently only reads the direct-sector 
based formats with no header info, truncated portions, etc.  I need 
to work on that this weekend.

A common 35-track direct virtual disk would be 161280 bytes in size (157.5K).

-- 
Roger Taylor

http://www.wordofthedayonline.com