[Coco] lunar rover patrol

[Gustavo Ranaur Schoenaker]

Here it hasn't started automatically (i need to EXEC it).

My computer is a NTSC version bought from Cloud9 with 512MB ram. I have
only the SDC (I have no MPI, I'm following eagerly the MPI discussion:-)).
The only game that starts automatically is CALADURIL (great game!), but it
worked perfectly so far.

Indeed when the car explodes during the game I see only the tires flying
around.

That`s indeed strange.

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 12:17 AM, Robert Hermanek <rhermanek at centurytel.net>
wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>>
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