[Coco] Will Dragon 32 Cassette software work on a coco?

[Arthur Flexser]

Possible sources of incompatibility would be, first, the difference in the
keyboard matrix, if the game wants any keyboard input.  So, you might need
a keyboard conversion chart if the game wants you to type in, say, the
number of players.  Second, if the game uses any ROM calls, they would not
be to the correct addresses and probably cause a crash.  Most games don't
use ROM calls, though. There might be problems from machine-specific
idiosyncrasies in the copy protection, if the games are protected.  I think
there's a good chance that at least some of the games would function
correctly.

Art


On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 1:01 PM, jeremy michea <jmichea at mail.com> wrote:

> I have a friend in the UK with some older dragon 32 cassettes, mostly
> games I believe that he's willing to send me but I don't know if I should
> have him bother if they won't work on a coco. For example he has
> Katerpiller Attack which is I believe the Dragon 32 version of the Tom Mix
> Coco game. Any insights on compatibility in this case?
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