[Coco] Dungeons of Daggorath disk version

[Bill Pierce]

Darren, would there be any way to make that code position independant and load it into lower ram? I know it would have to be disassembled and rewritten, but that would be a cool project for someone to do. I don't know how much of lower ram the software utilizes for it's own use, but it's worth investigating. There may even be a disassembly already out there.

just a thought..
Bill p

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-----Original Message-----
From: Darren A <mechacoco at gmail.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Mon, Dec 3, 2012 2:57 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] Dungeons of Daggorath disk version


On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 7:05 AM, Charlie  wrote:
> Has anyone considered patching the disk based version of Dungeons of Daggorath 
to work with DriveWire?
> I have this "diskdag" version that supports loading and saving right from the 
floppy drive.
> It only works with an actual drive though. You can start the game via DW but 
if you attempt to zsave / zload it goes to the real hardware.

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Are you loading HDB-DOS DW into RAM or running it from a ROM?  It
definitely won't work with HDB-DOS in RAM because the patched DOD code
is loaded into the same location.

The patched DOD does not directly access the floppy hardware. It
detects which version of Disk Basic is present and makes calls to
specific locations in the ROM to read and write files.  It should be
detecting HDB-DOS as Disk Basic 1.1.

Darren

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