[Coco] Trivia Fever

[Rogelio Perea]

Been playing with Trivia Fever I got recently (mint condition box). Found
that the flippy disk contains a minimal OS9 Level 1 Version 1 system plus
the game files - game will run fine out of the box.

With my OS9 L1V2 system (CoCo 1) I copied the whole contents to a single 40
track DSDD floppy, taking care of installing the files into a cobblered
OS9L2V2 disk - this system has the DP Johnson SDISK setup.

Allowing DSAVE work its magic, I ended up with a bootable Trivia Fever
disk. The systems boots up fine and goes through the motions of the initial
phase of the game, I get the title screen, a nice block graphics animation
sequence and then the Trivia Fever graphics based splash screen comes up...
soon after the program aborts to the shell with an ERROR #43 (Basic09
unknown procedure).

When the game aborts into the command line, the system remains on a
graphics screen, the TF splash screen remains and the shell prompt is
visible and active. The text display on that screen is 42*24.

Anyone on the list has had experience with this game? transferred it to a
40TDSDD floppy and have it run from there?. After playing the stock OS9L1V1
I can see the benefit of the 6ms step rate, as the program accesses the
disk heavily during the game.


-- RP