[Coco] Sierra games and DW

[Charlie Pelosi]

Hi Bill. How did you load hdbdos? If you loaded it from disk it worked 
because you have a physical disk controller plugged into the coco.
It works for me also when loaded from rom in disk controller or from disk.

I hope someone makes a DW version of these games that do not require the 
physical controller.
Kind of odd to have DW versions of a game require exactly the hardware we 
are trying not to use. :)


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From: "Bill Pierce" <ooogalapasooo at aol.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2013 8:07 PM
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Subject: Re: [Coco] Sierra games and DW

>
> Charlie,
> I just inserted the latest King's Quest 1 disk into DW4 slot 0, loaded 
> hdbdos (no rom),
> and typed DOS <enter> (all from a cold start)
> It booted, loaded, run, and I am playing it :-)
>
> I'm running a Coco 3, 1 meg mem, hdbdos v1.4, dw4 v4.3.3o
>
>
> Did you get the latest version of KQ 1? There were some problems with 
> older builds as the bootfiles were not right.
> Get the latest version here:
>
> http://www.nitros9.org/latest/
>
> If you got the disk from one of the archives, it's probably got a bad 
> boot.
> I'm going to update the files on The Color Computer Archives as I know 
> they're not up to date.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Bill Pierce
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charlie Pelosi <chaspelosi at outlook.com>
> To: coco list <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Wed, Oct 9, 2013 7:28 pm
> Subject: [Coco] Sierra games and DW
>
>
> I'm having trouble emailing the list I think because my reply address for 
> my
> Microsoft account is a different alias than the primary I have subscribed 
> to the
> list...
> Hello.
>
> I am trying to play The King's Quest games with a coco3 and drivewire4.
>
> I downloaded KingsQuest1_dw.dsk from http://www.nitros9.org/latest/
> I have a rompak in a COCO3 that has HDB-DOS 1.4 DW3 COCO 3 (Ive tried 1.2 
> also)
> I am using the very latest DW4 in Windows.
>
> When I mount the KingsQuest1_dw.dsk in drive 0 and type DOS to start 
> Nitros9
> starts to boot.
> When it gets to i2xoC and then the coco just hangs sitting there forever 
> doing
> nothing.
>
> Any ideas on what is wrong or how to get this to work?
>
> I tried to send the above earlier and it didn't work. But that worked out
> because in the meantime I discovered something.
>
> If I move the rom chip to an actual FD502 controller the boot gets past 
> i2xoC
> and the game starts.
> So I would guess because Nitros9 is loading a driver or looking for the 
> disk
> hardware.
> So is there a version that doesn't do that so that people loading from a 
> simple
> rompak or even tape can boot these games with DW and enjoy them?
>
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