[Coco] Dungeons of Daggorath disk version

[Charlie]

Robert,

I don't think I am looking at the wrong version. If you can link or attach 
the DSK just to be sure?

The version I attached is a special version of the game. It was sold as a 
patch.
You purchased the patch, put tape over the cart pins and dumped your own 
Binary from the cart.
I think you save it to tape and then transfer to disk.
I believe there are programs on the disk, included with the patch to do 
this.
You don't have to do all that now-a-days because the patched binary is 
included on the disk.

This version has a basic launcher RUN"DAGORATH

Dungeons of Daggorath supports saving and loading your game progress to 
tape.
The in game commands are ZLOAD and ZSAVE

The point of this patch is that it changes the in game commands ZLOAD and 
ZSAVE so that you can save your progress to disk.
Just add a name after either ZSAVE or ZLOAD. So if you just defeated that 
stone giant type ZSAVE FILE1
The game will save your progress in a file called FILE1.DAG on the disk.
Later you can pick up from there when playing again by typing ZLOAD FILE1 
The disk drive activates and the game loads your progress at the point it 
was saved.

The great thing about getting this version of DoD to work with DW from ROM 
or loaded from disk is that it makes the game self contained.
You can play, load and save game progress all through the DW interface. It 
also makes the game more convenient. No tape and tape player is needed.
Loading and saving is done in an instant.

I hope that clears it up a little. Dungeons of Daggorath is available 
everywhere as a binary you can LOADM from disk.
The particular version I attached however make the game disk based as it 
interacts with the drive for loading/saving.

Charlie




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From: "Robert Gault" <robert.gault at att.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 9:54 AM
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Subject: Re: [Coco] Dungeons of Daggorath disk version

> Charlie wrote:
>> Hi Robert.
>>
>> The version you pointed out is just a dump of the cart rom. That does run 
>> under
>> DW from disk or rom no problems.
>> The version I am talking about here is a special disk based version. You 
>> run it
>> from disk and while playing you can issue ZLOAD NAME or ZSAVE NAME to 
>> save and
>> load games directly to the disk. So much better than using a tape drive 
>> like the
>> cart version. I forget the details but it was sold as a patch by a 3rd 
>> part
>> company back in the coco's day.
>> The problem with running this version with DW loaded from disk is that in 
>> the
>> game if you ZSAVE or ZLOAD it looks to the real floppy hardware. So the 
>> game
>> starts but it is the in game commands hard coded for looking at the 
>> floppy.
>> I'll attach it here again and you can check it out. The .DAG files are my 
>> saved
>> games. Once the game is started and your playing type ZLOAD WIZFINAL and 
>> it will
>> load that game.
>> Even on a floppy system it can be buggy though and you may have to type 
>> it again
>> if the game says error.
>>
>> Charlie
>>
>
> Charlie,
>
> You must be trying a different file from the one I referenced. The 
> DAGGORAT.BIN I referred to is not a rom dump. It is on a disk and LOADM 
> works with it.
>
> If you can't find it at the url I gave, I can send you a copy of the .dsk 
> image.
>
> Robert
>
>
>
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