[Coco] "Downland" Mystery on the CoCo3

[Arthur Flexser]

I seem to recall that there were two different versions of Downland, with
the second having been developed to allow compatibility with the CoCo 3,
though I don't know if it took advantage of any of the CoCo 3's features.
But my memory is pretty vague on this...can anyone confirm it?

Art
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Todd Wallace <dragonbytes at cox.net> wrote:

> Hey All,
>
> Was recently chatting with Aaron about the rompak Downland on Freenode.
>  Apparently, most people cannot get the game to run on a CoCo3 without using
> a MPI or some sort of other code patching.  The mystery is that I have been
> playing Downland on my CoCo3 ever since I was a kid!  Never modified it or
> did any such code patching.  It just worked.  From some forums, I read that
> the problem with Downland on a CoCo3 might be that its copy protection would
> conflict with the GIME and make the game unplayable.  But why does it work
> fine on my machine?  Aaron suggested when I take apart my CoCo3 soon to do
> the 512k upgrade, I should take some pictures of the insides and post them
> here to see if we can figure out why mine plays the cart fine.  Aaron has
> tried multiple Downland cartridges on multiple CoCo3's all with the same
> unplayable result.  But before I go photographing everything, can anyone
> solve this mystery?
>
> - Todd
>
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