[Coco] Still having newbie issues

[Darren A]

On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Stephen Pereira wrote:

>
> Hello again, all,
>
> I am still having a problem with two programs that I can get to work on
> the VCC emulator, running on my MacBook Pro in Windows XP on Parallels, but
> I cannot get them to work on my physical system.  One program is Zork I,
> and the other is Disk EDTASM.  Both of these .DSK files have been
> downloaded from the Color Computer Archive.
>
> My physical system is a CoCo 3, recently purchased from Cloud-9.  I made
> up an EPROM cartridge, and I have HDB-DOS in EPROM, also purchased from
> Cloud-9.  I am using Drivewire 3 at the moment, served up on a Dell Mini
> laptop running Windows XP.  Everything works great in this setup, but I am
> stymied by the fact that I cannot get these two programs to work, even
> though both do work just fine with the VCC emulator.



I don't know about Disk EDTASM, but Zork uses its own code to access the
disk and so would not work with DriveWire or HDB-DOS.

Darren