[Coco] Word Power 3.3
Robert Gault
robert.gault at att.net
Thu Mar 30 15:11:27 EDT 2017
Arthur Flexser wrote:
> An aspect of Word Power 3.3 that may be responsible for the problem is that
> it puts its stack in the memory area where the ROMs exist, which is fine so
> long as you stay in the all-RAM mode that is normal for the CoCo 3. But
> any switching to ROM mode will kill the stack and cause a crash. Are you
> running this with a modified RSDOS that switches to ROM mode sometimes?
>
> There is no easy fix for this problem.
>
> Art
>
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Very interesting Art! However there appears to be at least one other issue.
I've test WP3.3 on a Coco3, MESS, and VCC. If the ROM in each case is Disk1.1, WP3.3 works with the
Coco3 and MESS, but not VCC.
If the ROM is changed to anything else, RGBDOS, HDBDOS, the program won't run.
Robert
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