[Coco] Sierra games and DW

Wed Oct 9 20:50:53 EDT 2013

Thanks Bill.

That is strange then.. Nitros9.org/latest is where I downloaded it. In fact the in the newest DW4 you can choose to load the images right from the site. You don’t need to even have them local.

I tried that too. I don’t have HDBDOS on tape to try it loaded from cassette. My coco tape player is stored away somewhere.

So then what could it be about having the HDBDOS rom in a rompak that would cause the Nitros9 to stop booting? It seems to work fine when loading ML games and all that... and its not the rom itself cause that works when its plugged in a disk controller. Does something else need to be done to the rom?pcb in the rompak besides just removing the game chip and soldering in a rom? I installed a socket to easily swap roms...

It would be nice to have it work. Replacing the chip in a coco3 rompak is super easy and would allow players to load and play the games with nothing but the DW cable running to server.

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From: Bill Pierce
Sent: ‎Wednesday‎, ‎October‎ ‎9‎, ‎2013 ‎8‎:‎46‎ ‎PM
To: coco at maltedmedia.com

Charlie, my disk drive is down for the count right now, so I load hdbdos from cassette via PC headphone out using dosbox and casout.exe form Jeff Vavsour's dos Coco emulator package.
Since you said it wouldn't work without the controller and mine was plugged in though my drive is down, I shut it all down and removed the controller. I started everything again and King's Quest 1 booted and run fine.

Did you get the latest version?
Everyone seems to think if it comes from the archives they're current but they're not. Any Nitros9 oriented downloads should be done from the repository downloads. There hasn't been too many dependable builds of Nitros9 in the past 5 years until recently. The only place to get the latest build is here. 

http://www.nitros9.org/latest/

Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Charlie Pelosi <chaspelosi at outlook.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wed, Oct 9, 2013 8:25 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] Sierra games and DW

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
> My Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3
> https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/
> Co-Webmaster of The TRS-80 Color Computer Archive
> http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/
> Co-Contributor, Co-Editor for CocoPedia
> http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
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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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