[Coco] The Hobbit ported to 6809 (Dragon64 and coCo2 64k) - ENDED!

[Stephen Pereira]

Hello folks,

Please pardon my ignorance, but…

I have (only) a CoCo3FPGA and Drivewire 4 for my virtual disk drives.

I would like to try out the Hobbit program, but every time I attempt to install the .DSK image into Drivewire, I get an error message indicating an "unreadable path.”

Am I doing something wrong, or am I missing something?  I see that the program has beeb recently tested by many and updated to run with CoCo 3, so I thought that I would be fine with my CoCo3FPGA.  I was not expecting a problem with Drivewire.

Your thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
smp
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Stephen M. Pereira
Bedford, NH  03110
KB1SXE


> On Aug 27, 2016, at 2:51 PM, Pere <psergm at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> this is the DEFINITIVE FINAL version for The Hobbit (v16f4)
> Runs at double speed on any emulation of a CoCo3 too.
> On real hardware with real floppies it is MANDATORY to use it at the normal
> speed!  Only with CoCo-SDC and other modules like that you could try the
> double speed:  LOADM"HDS":EXEC
> 
> To play at normal speed, just Enter: LOADM"H1":EXEC
> 
> From my experience, I can confirm that it runs flawlessly at double speed
> in  VCC and in my CoCo3 with the CoCo-SDC card.
> But fails when saving/restoring saved games from actual floppies!
> So, please don't use double speed with floppies, or do it at your risk!
> The needed changes to take into account the double speed won't fit in the
> small residual free space in the 64k area and in fact it doesn't make a
> big difference compared to the normal speed. Art, you were soooo right!
> By the way, I had to put back the POKE&HFFDE,0 so that SEB gets disabled.
> Some of the 27 patches done at startup, when called they redirect the code
> to data structures of the Hobbit, so sending the program to the lala land.
> 
> The program supports now these DRAGON Disk Operating Systems (DOS)
> Dragon Data: DDOS10, DDOS11C, DDOS12A, DDOS13A
> Eurohard: DDOS41
> 3S: DosPlus4.9B, DosPlus5.0
> Grosvenor: SuperDOS E6, E7 and E8
> 
> I have tested the game with these COCO Disk Operating Systems (DOS)
> RS-DOS1.1, RS-DOS1.2, RS-DOS1.2A and VCC for CoCo3 (NO RS-DOS1.0, sorry)
> 
> You can find info about the project and download the VDK on these threads
> http://retrowiki.es/rw30/viewtopic.php?f=84&t=68&start=304#p4516
> http://retrowiki.es/rw30/viewtopic.php?f=84&t=357&start=32#p4517
> Note: The web is in spanish language.
> 
> You could find info and download the two DSK in these threads at
> worldOfDragon
> http://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5521&start=10#p15094
> http://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5526#p15095
> 
> cheers
> pere serrat 
> 
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