[Coco] CoCoSDC Saving Kings Quest Progress to disk.

[Alexander Wallace]

Ah! 

The one i tried yesterday from the NO6809BN.VHD.gz did crash the coco.

I’ll give the new ones a try...

Thanks a lot all!

> On May 28, 2017, at 8:52 PM, Guillaume Major <guillaume.major at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Alexander,
> 
> There was a problem with the Coco SDC version of most of the Sierra games in the archive. They have been fixed now and ready to be downloaded:
> 
> http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> Guillaume
> 
> 
> "Alexander Wallace" <alexander.o.wallace at gmail.com> wrote in message news:8A817875-75D5-4C81-9304-E2A184C3EF61 at gmail.com...
>> I’ll give that a try, maybe changing the current command folder to king’s quest would do the trick.
>> 
>> Thanks for the reply! I’ll let you know what I figure out.
>> 
>> It would surely be cool if one could mount several SDC disks in NitrOS9 though…
>> 
>> Thanks again!
>> 
>>> On May 28, 2017, at 1:27 PM, Travis Poppe <travispoppe at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 08:41:48AM -0500, Alexander Wallace wrote:
>>>> Hi All,
>>>> 
>>>> I’m very new to the great SDC and barely remember anything about OS9.
>>>> I’m in the process of re-learning.
>>>> 
>>>> But for the interim, I got both my 16 and 13 year olds excited about
>>>> playing KQI. It’s very easy to die, so I want to save the progress.
>>>> When I attempt to do so, it complains the disk is full.
>>>> 
>>>> Is it possible to create another SDC image and mount it from within
>>>> NitrOs9? I’ve searched google and I know some patches have been made
>>>> to support the SDC on NitrOs9, but not sure if this is available to
>>>> these KQI images… If not, is there other way to save the progress? I
>>>> don’t have an MPI.
>>> 
>>> A possible workaround is to download Barry Nelson's NitrOS9 virtual hard
>>> drive and run King's Quest from it instead. A bit overkill, but it ought
>>> to have free disk space:
>>> 
>>> https://europa.lickwid.net/cocosdc/ULTIMSDC-2017-01-16/VHD/NO6809BN.VHD.gz
>>> 
>>> This will need to be uncompressed with a utility like 7-Zip.
>>> 
>>> Unfortunately I am not sure how to properly launch the game from the VHD
>>> image. Perhaps Barry could weigh in on that? Entering the full path to
>>> the game (/dd/games/kq1/cmds/sierra) doesn't seem to work.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
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