[Coco] SSC Pak + Interbank Incident + Drivewire How to ???

[Robert Gault]

Barry Nelson wrote:
> I have known good images of this game that boot using the original OS9 level 1 version 2, so I can confirm that the original disks work on a CoCo 3 with an unmodified speech and sound cartridge. Some things to consider are:
> 1) The original speech and sound device descriptor and driver were named /SSC and /SSCPAK, respectively. The game may be trying to access a device named /SSC which is not present. You could try either using the driver at http://star2.abcm.com/download/speech or editing the module name of /SSP to be /SSC using a program like ded.

Well that might be the case except that the OS9Boot file on the original game 
disk does not contain a separate driver/descriptor for the Pak. All the code 
that talks to the Pak is contained within IBI in the game CMDS directory.

> 2) The driver on the link above may solve other issues as it is nearly identical to the original driver except for code which should slow the speech pak down to 1Mhz when it is operating.
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> I have not tried this with Drivewire yet, so I do not know if this will help. I can tell you that at least one other game, Cave Walker, does not run correctly under NitrOS9 level 2 but runs under OS9 Level 2 fine. I have not tested Cave Walker with NitrOS9 level 1 yet, so I don't really know how much or if this is related.
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>> Robert Gault robert.gault at att.net
>> Tue Jan 5 11:23:28 EST 2016
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>> There has been a thread recently about getting an unmodified Speech Sound
>> cartridge to work with NitrOS-9. This may seem similar but is not related. I'm
>> trying to get the Level I, V2.00 game "Interbank Incident" to work with ANY
>> version of NitrOS-9 or Level I, V2.00 with Drivewire. So far, there is always a
>> load background buzz as soon as the game is told there is an SSC pak installed.
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>> This SSC pak is modified to work at either 1 or 2 MHz. It will work from a Coco3
>> when booting NitrOS-9 from Drivewire as long as the sspak.dr and ssp.dd are
>> loaded. Speech is clean with NitrOS-9 but this is not via the game.
>> The game can be installed on a Coco3 with either a hard drive system or a Roger
>> Taylor SDPak system. The sound and speech from the pak within the game are clean
>> when booting with Level I, V2.
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>> So, clearly the SSC pak will work with Drivewire using the NitrOS-9 driver. That
>> means there is nothing wrong with the SSC pak, Drivewire, or NitrOS-9 themselves.
>> Any suggestions for further tests and/or getting the game to work on a Coco3 and
>> SSC pak via Drivewire?
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>> Robert
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