[Coco] lunar rover patrol

[Robert Hermanek]

I also had spontaneous rover ignition when loading via HDB-DOS & DW.  So 
I took the dsk image and copied it onto a physical floppy, then switched 
to standard FD501 controller (the short controller), and then it 
worked.  Controller is in a multipak with the coco3 chip fix, don't know 
if that impacts anything...

When loading off of physical DSK, I noticed the heads move around more 
than necessary.  Maybe the file was just fragmented.... ?

-RobertH

On 2/26/2015 7:47 PM, Robert Gault wrote:
> Gustavo Ranaur Schoenaker wrote:
>> Check the memories of your machine. I swear I played it today morning.
>>
>> If you want I can send you (directly) the disk.
>>
>
> Gustavo,
>
> Something very strange is happening. I downloaded your CCAG.zip 
> archive and extracted the ROVER.DSK. The binary on it (ROVER.BIN) is a 
> byte for byte match with that in the Color Computer Archive. When 
> mounted on MESS as a Coco3, your copy behaves exactly like that from 
> the Archive.
>
> Now, when I switch to coco3p (PAL) emulation, then both versions start 
> automatically. Not only that, but instead of jumping the channel, the 
> rover explodes in the initial demo.
> Clearly the difference is caused either by the ROM (coco3) or MESS, 
> not the origin of the game. Given that your site suggests you are not 
> using an NTSC Coco3 (site language is not English), that may be why 
> you have different results with the game than I do. I can't account 
> for Robert H's results with the disk you sent to him.
>
> Robert
>
>