[Coco] The Hobbit - CoCo3 version v16g3

Pere psergm at gmail.com
Sat Oct 1 14:33:42 EDT 2016


Hello,
I found a hidden bug in the Hobbit that only 'arises' if you
want to play in a machine using a D.O.S. different from the 
one you had started the CoCo.

I have a CoCo3 with floppies and CoCo-SDC on an MPI.
If I select the floppies (slot 4) the CoCo starts with RS-DOS
then I load from a floppy the file "HDBDW3CC3.BIN" than once
executed starts HDB-DOS to access drivewire, great!
If I run the Hobbit (LOADM"H1X":EXEC") it crashes when trying
to load files.
The reason is that the Hobbit issued a POKE&HFFDE,0 to detach
de SuperExtended Basic because that area is going to be filled
with Hobbit data structures. Unfortunately that poke causes 
the system to revert ot the 'original' ROM so activating again 
RS-DOS and loosing access to drivewire!

I have solved this problem and have been testing the new 
'last version' on 15 different hardware-software combinations 
and all of them work well.

You will find this 'new version' here:
http://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5526#p15187

cheers
pere


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